I don't blame her: Suzy's beautiful, but she's also smart. "Because I want her out first," I say, wondering if Greta's jealous. Greta's with me when I pull Suzy out of the surge tank. Dick's classic, "A Little Something for Us Tempunauts." A ship is marooned outside the galaxy by an alien wormhole transportation system that everyone uses but no one really understands. "Beyond the Aquila Rift" was published in Constellations. His first short story collection, Galactic North, collecting pieces in the RS universe, is out in 2006. His last two novels are Century Rain and Pushing Ice.
He is growing fast as an SF writer in this decade.
His first novel, Revelation Space, was published in 1999. He is one of the new British space opera writers to emerge in the mid and late 1990s, in the generation after Baxter and McAuley, and originally the most "hard SF" of them. Additionally, the vignettes are separated by 15 seconds of music.Beyond the Aquila Rift ALASTASR REYNOLDS From Hartwell, David - Year's Best SF 11 (2006) Alastair Reynolds (lives in Noordwijk, Holland, and worked for ten years for the European Space Agency before becoming a full-time writer in 2004. He sounded like he'd been challenged to read through the story as fast as possible and, to draw a traffic analogy, treated sentence ending punctuation much like a speedhump or chicane rather than stop signs or red lights. I don't know if it's because I now unconsciously relate John Lee with Alistair Reynolds but the narrator (Tom Dheere) just didn't work for me. That said, this audio version of it verges on terrible. It vaguely echoes some of his other work but it's definitely new and interesting material, telling the story of some off-track astronauts, shuttling between brief vignettes of "now" and "not too long ago" with a nice psychological twist at the end to keep you wondering for a while. Length complaints aside, this is a great story and I really enjoyed it. I love the universes that Alastair Reynolds creates, and the stories he weaves in them so I was a little disappointed to see how short this story was (it's only an hour long, take note of the price as it's probably worth purchasing it rather than wasting a credit).
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