- Science fiction, Mystery, Noir, Crime
A private investigator is hired to look into a mysterious, high-profile death aboard the starship Halcyon in this new noir/science fiction fusion from the “mastersinger of space opera” (*The Times*) and the creator of the beloved Revelation Space universe, strap in for a gripping murder mystery.
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Grave, classical in form, cool and earnest.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Alastair Reynolds
- First published
- 2025
- Pages
- 496
- Publisher
- Gollancz
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781399611794
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“She came in out of the rain, mascara smudged.”
British science fiction author I'm Al, I used to be a space scientist, and now I'm a writer, although for a time the two careers ran in parallel. I started off publishing short stories in the British SF magazine Interzone in the early 90s, then eventually branched into novels. I write about a novel a year and try to write a few short stories as well. Some of my books and stories are set in a consistent future named after Revelation Space, the first novel, but I've done a lot of other things as well and I like to keep things fresh between books. I was born in Wales, but raised in Cornwall, and then spent time in the north of England and Scotland. I moved to the Netherlands to continue my scie
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