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Century Rain Alastair Reynolds

Century Rain By Alastair Reynolds

Century Rain by Alastair Reynolds


$11.69
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Summary

Part hard SF thriller, part interstellar adventure, part noir romance.

Century Rain Summary

Century Rain by Alastair Reynolds

Three hundred years in the future, Verity Auger is a specialist in the archaeological exploration of Earth, rendered uninhabitable after the technological catastrophe known as the Nanocaust. After a field-trip to goes badly wrong, Verity is forced to redeem herself by participating in a dangerous mission, for which her expertise in invaluable. Using a backdoor into an unstable alien transit system, Auger's faction has discovered something astonishing at the far end of a wormhole: mid twentieth-century Earth, preserved like a fly in amber. Is it a window into the past, a simulation, or something else entirely? CENTURY RAIN is not just a time-travel story, nor a tale of alternate history. Part hard SF thriller, part interstellar adventure, part noir romance, CENTURY RAIN is something altogether stranger.

Century Rain Reviews

Century Rain is a darkly brilliant love story, set in worlds we think we know but don't. -- Jon Courtenay Grimwood GUARDIAN Further proof that he is shaping up into one of SF's best and most ambitious novelists. -- Jonathan Wright SFX This is an intelligent space opera -- Roz Kaveney Time Out Century Rain is an absolute cracker of a novel. Reynolds has always been a consistently bright star in the firmament of British sci-fi but now he has suddenly, perhaps unexpectedly, gone supernova. -- OUTLAND OTTAKAR'S Century Rain is an exciting, thought-provoking novel, an audacious synthesis of genre forms. Alastair Reynolds is now in his novelistic prime. -- Nick Gevers LOCUS While science ficiton and mystery have often been combined, no writer has done so with such intelligence or originality as Alastair Reynolds. In a single novel, he steps from the mean streets to the far future. -- Rick Kleffel Interzone Century Rain demonstrates the growing maturity of his talent Edge Magazine Leaves you wishing that more science fiction was this good. A genuinely great book. -- Brigid Cherry Dreamwatch With Century Rain, Alastair Reynolds continues the coruscating path he has blazed through SF skies. This a whopping 500-pager, brimming with ideas. -- Barry Seddon Manchester Evening News

About Alastair Reynolds

Alastair Reynolds was born in Barry, South Wales, in 1966. He studied at Newcastle and St Andrews Universities and has a Ph.D. in astronomy. Since 1991 he has lived in the Netherlands, near Leiden, where he works as an astrophysicist for the European Space Agency.

Additional information

GOR001176286
9780575074361
0575074361
Century Rain by Alastair Reynolds
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Orion Publishing Co
20041125
512
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