Alastair Reynolds

Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight....

Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a law enforcement officer with the Panoply....

Six million years ago, at the very dawn of the starfaring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones: the shatterlings....

2057. Humanity has raised exploiting the solar system to an art form....

The Inhibitors were designed to eliminate any life-form reaching a certain level of intelligence---and they've targeted humanity....

Three hundred years from now, Earth has been rendered uninhabitable due to the technological catastrophe known as the Nanocaust....

Geoffrey Akinya wants nothing more than to study elephants. But when his space-explorer grandmother dies, secrets come to light and Geoffrey is dispatched to the Moon....

From the master of the space opera comes a dark, mind-bending adventure spread across time and space, where Doctor Silas Coade is tasked with keeping his crew safe as they adventure across the galaxy in search of a mysterious artifact....

This novel is a standalone story which takes two extraordinary characters and follows them as they independently begin to unravel some of the greatest mysteries of our universe....

Late in the 26th century, the human race has advanced enough to accidentally trigger the Inhibitors---alien-killing machines designed to detect intelligent life and destroy it....

A vast conflict, one that has encompassed hundreds of worlds and solar systems, appears to be finally at an end....

The once-utopian Chasm City - a domed human settlement on an otherwise inhospitable planet - has been overrun by a virus known as the Melding Plague....

The Ness sisters ran away from home to become the most fearsome pirates in the 20,000 worlds of the Congregation. They've plundered treasures untold, taken command of their own ship, and made plenty of enemies. But now they're being hunted for crimes they didn't commit....

A small group of intrepid explorers are in search of a remote and mysterious artefact. It's a well-funded expedition, which is lucky as they're sailing north of Bergen on the schooner Demeter, searching for a narrow inlet which will lead them to a vast uncharted lake....

2080: At a remote site on the edge of the Arctic Circle, a group of scientists, engineers, and physicians gather to gamble humanity’s future on one last-ditch experiment. Their goal: to make a tiny alteration to the past....

Howard Falcon almost lost his life in an accident as the first human astronaut to explore the atmosphere of Jupiter - and a combination of human ingenuity and technical expertise brought him back....

Spearpoint, the last human city, is an atmosphere-piercing spire of vast size....

The galaxy has seen great empires rise and fall. Planets have shattered and been remade. Amongst the ruins of alien civilisations, building our own from the rubble, humanity still thrives....

After billions of years of imprisonment, the vicious Sild have broken out of confinement....

The planet Golgotha - supposedly lifeless - resides in a remote star system, far from those inhabited by human colonists....