Alastair Reynolds

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....

From the king of modern space opera comes a new adventure in the Prefect Dreyfus series—Machine Vendetta is a thrilling tale of deadly conspiracies and old enemies that refuse to die....

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

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

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

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....

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....

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....

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....

Elysium Fire is a smoldering tale of murderers, secret cultists, tampered memories, and unthinkable power, of bottomless corruption and overpowering idealism....

In the conclusion of the Poseidon's Children saga, the Akinya family receives an invitation from across the stars - and a last opportunity to redeem their name....

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

The award-winning author of Blue Remembered Earth continues his saga as the next generation of the Akinya family crosses interstellar space seeking humanity' s future....

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

One citizen died a fortnight ago. Two a week ago. Four died yesterday...and unless the cause can be found - and stopped - within the next four months, everyone will be dead....

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

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....

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

Galactic North imparts the centuries-spanning events that have produced the dark and turbulent world of Revelation Space....