The very best of his more than sixty published short stories are gathered in Beyond the Aquila Rift: The Best of Alastair Reynolds, a sweeping 250,000 word career retrospective which features the very best stories from the 'Revelation Space' universe like 'Galactic North', 'Great Wall of Mars', 'Weather', 'Diamond Dogs', and 'The Last Log of the Lachrymosa' alongside thrilling hard science fiction stories like Hugo Award nominee 'Troika', 'Thousandth Night', and 'The Star Surgeon's Apprentice'. His short stories have been nominated for the Hugo, British Fantasy, British Science Fiction, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial, Locus, Italia, Seiun, and Sidewise Awards, and have won the Seiun and Sidewise Awards. A brilliant novelist, he has also been recognized as one of our best writers of short fiction.

With a career stretching back more than 25 years and across fourteen novels, including the classic 'Revelation Space' series, the bestselling 'Poseidon's Children' series, Century Rain, Pushing Ice, and most recently The Medusa Chronicles (with Stephen Baxter), Reynolds has established himself as one of the best and most beloved writers of hard science fiction and space opera working today. The Guardian called Alastair Reynolds' work 'a turbulent, wildly entertaining ride' and The Times acclaimed him as 'the mastersinger of space opera'.

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