ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

Una novela tan absorbente como La Cultura de Banks, y tan pulida como La Federación de Hamilton, basada en el universo de la saga Espacio revelación Tom Dreyfus es uno de los mejores prefectos de Pan

A finales del siglo XXI, miles de prisioneros políticos malviven confinados en el Laberinto, donde los investigadores los utilizan como cobayas para crear el soldado perfecto. Kendrick Gallmon, un superviviente de los experimentos, intenta reunir las piezas de su vida, consciente de que las mejoras nanotecnicas que los cientificos han introducido en su sistema nervioso lo estan matando lentamente. Un dia, su corazon deja de latir para siempre y un fantasma lo apremia a regresar a la fuente de todas sus pesadillas: un complejo militar abandonado hace mucho tiempo donde todavia resuenan las voces de los muertos...

This novel is a stand-alone story which takes two extraordinary characters and follows them as they, independently, begin to unravel some of the greatest mysteries of our universe. Their missions are dangerous, and they are all venturing into the unknown ...and if they can uncover the secret to faster-than-light travel then new worlds will be at our fingertips. But innovation and progress are not always embraced by everyone. There is a saboteur at work. Different factions disagree about the best way to move forward. And the mysterious Watchkeepers are ever-present. Completing the informal trilogy which began with Blue Remembered Earth and On the Steel Breeze, this is a powerful and effective story.

Inspired by Sir Arthur C. Clarke's short story A Meeting with Medusa, this novel, with permission from the Clarke Estate, continues the story of Commander Howard Falcon over centuries of space-exploration, interaction with AI, first contact and beyond. All brought to life by two of our greatest SF authors, Stephen Baxter and Alastair Reynolds. Howard Falcon almost lost his life in an accident ...and a combination of human ingenuity and technical expertise brought him back. Not as himself, but as an augmented human: part man, part machine, and exceptionally capable. The Medusa Chronicles charts his journey through time, the changing interaction between humanity and our universe, and combined moments of incredible action with unparalleled exploration of and expansion into space. A compelling read from the beginning, this is classic SF which has appeal for readers who like Gravity and The Martian.

Spearpoint, the last human city, is a vast atmosphere-piercing spire. Clinging to its skin are the zones, a series of semi-autonomous city-states, each of which enjoys a different - and rigidly enforced - level of technology. Horsetown, for example, is pre-industrial, while in Neon Heights they have television and electric trains. Following an infiltration mission that went tragically wrong, Quillon has been living incognito, working as a pathologist in the district morgue. But when a near-dead angel drops onto his dissecting table, Quillon's world is wrenched apart one more time, for the angel is a winged posthuman from Spearpoint's Celestial Levels - and with the dying body comes bad news. If Quillon is to save his life, he must leave his home and journey into the cold and hostile lands beyond Spearpoint's base, starting an exile that will take him further than he could ever imagine. But there is far more at stake than just Quillon's own survival...

Featuring Inspector Dreyfus - one of Alastair Reynolds most popular characters - this is a fast paced SF crime story, combining a futuristic setting with a gripping tale of technology, revolution and revenge.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. For the Prefects, the hunt for a silent, hidden killer is on . . .Alastair Reynolds has returned to the world of The Prefect for this stand-alone SF mystery in which no one is safe. The technological implants which connect every citizen to each other have become murder weapons, and no one knows who or what the killer is - or who the next targets will be. But their reach is spreading, and time is not on the Prefects' side.

Alastair Reynolds es el autor de 'Espacio Revelación', una de las sagas más populares de la ciencia ficción del momento. El universo que se crea con esta serie, que se cierra con El prefecto, se extiende a través de varios siglos y se puede leer de manera independiente. Tom Dreyfus es uno de los mejores prefectos de Panoplia, el cuerpo de policía de la multifacética sociedad utópica del Anillo de Luz, un vasto remolino de hábitats espaciales que orbitan el planeta Yellowstone. En este momento, su trabajo es su vida. Se produce un grave ataque asesino contra un hábitat del Anillo de Luz, pero parece un caso fácil de resolver. Sin embargo, cuando Dreyfus comienza revolver en los asuntos de personas muy poderosas, lo que descubre es mucho más grave que un mero asesinato: existe una opa hostil secreta por parte de Aurora, una enigmática figura (que una vez fue humana pero, sin duda, ya no lo es), para quien los habitantes del Anillo de Luz ya no deberían llevar las riendas de su propio destino.

Algo aniquiló a los amarantinos hace novecientos mil años. Para los colonos humanos que se están asentado en Resurgam, el planeta natal de esta civilización perdida, se trata de un hecho de escaso interés científico, a pesar del descubrimiento de una ciudad casi perfecta y una estatua gigantesca que representa a un amarantino alado. Para Dan Sylveste, sin embargo, es algo más que una mera curiosidad intelectual. Este científico, brillante y despiadado, no se detendrá ante nada hasta conocer la verdad, por elevado que sea su coste. Pero no sabe que los amarantinos fueron exterminados por una razón... ni tampoco que el peligro está más cerca y es mucho más grande de lo que imagina.

Humanity has endured centuries of horrific plague and a particularly brutal interstellar war: It's time for a few decades of peace and quiet. No such luck: for now there is new treat. Stirred from aeons of sleep, the inhibitors - ancient alien killing machines - have begun the process of ridding the galaxy of its latest emergent intelligence. Fleeing the first wave of machines, a ragtag group of refugees headed by the war veteran Clavain waits anxiously for the next phase of the cull. But with Clavain sunk deep in despondency, the actual leadership falls to Scorpio has very reason to flawed experiment in genetic engineering. Though Scorpio has every reason to hate humanity, he believes he has put his grudges - along with this criminal past - behind him. Then an unexpected new element enters the colony: an avenging angel, a girl born in ice, gifted with both the power to lead humanity to safety and the ability to drew down mankind's darkest enemy. On Hela, where vast traveling cathedrals circle the world in endless procession, the witnessing of a miraculous event has given birth to an apocalyptic new religion.

Tanner Mirabel era un experto en seguridad que nunca cometía errores... hasta que una mujer a su cargo muere asesinada durante un ataque dirigido por un joven postmortal llamado Argent Reivich. Tanner persigue a Reivich más allá de su mundo natal, a través de varios años luz de espacio, hasta llegar a Ciudad Abismo, un asentamiento humano construido bajo una cúpula en el inhóspito planeta Yellowstone. Pero la ciudad no es lo que era, ahora es una oscura pesadilla gótica, un lugar poblado por máquinas extrañas, misteriosas facciones y nuevos juegos mortales. Antes de que finalice la persecución, Tanner tendrá que enfrentarse a verdades inquietantes que se remontan siglos atrás, al espacio profundo, a una atrocidad que la historia casi ha olvidado...

nspired by Sir Arthur C. Clarke's short story A Meeting with Medusa, this novel, with permission from the Clarke Estate, continues the story of Commander Howard Falcon over centuries of space-exploration, interaction with AI, first contact and beyond. All brought to life by two of our greatest SF authors, Stephen Baxter and Alastair Reynolds. Howard Falcon almost lost his life in an accident ...and a combination of human ingenuity and technical expertise brought him back. Not as himself, but as an augmented human: part man, part machine, and exceptionally capable. The Medusa Chronicles charts his journey through time, the changing interaction between humanity and our universe, and combined moments of incredible action with unparalleled exploration of and expansion into space. A compelling read from the beginning, this is classic SF which has appeal for readers who like Gravity and The Martian.

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.And there are vast fortunes to be made, if you know where to find them...Captain Rackamore and his crew do. It's their business to find the tiny, enigmatic worlds which have been hidden away, booby-trapped, surrounded with layers of protection - and to crack them open for the ancient relics and barely-remembered technologies inside. But while they ply their risky trade with integrity, not everyone is so scrupulous.Adrana and Fura Ness are the newest members of Rackamore's crew, signed on to save their family from bankruptcy. Only Rackamore has enemies, and there might be more waiting for them in space than adventure and fortune: the fabled and feared Bosa Sennen in particular.Revenger is a science fiction adventure story set in the rubble of our solar system in the dark, distant future - a tale of space pirates, buried treasure and phantom weapons, of unspeakable hazards and single-minded heroism... and of vengeance...

One hundred and fifty years from now, in a world where Africa is the dominant technological and economic power, and where crime, war, disease and poverty have been banished to history, Geoffrey Akinya wants only one thing: to be left in peace, so that he can continue his studies into the elephants of the Amboseli basin. But Geoffrey's family, the vast Akinya business empire, has other plans. After the death of Eunice, Geoffrey's grandmother, erstwhile space explorer and entrepreneur, something awkward has come to light on the Moon, and Geoffrey is tasked - well, blackmailed, really - to go up there and make sure the family's name stays suitably unblemished. But little does Geoffrey realise - or anyone else in the family, for that matter - what he's about to unravel. Eunice's ashes have already have been scattered in sight of Kilimanjaro. But the secrets she died with are about to come back out into the open, and they could change everything. Or shatter this near-utopia into shards ...

Estamos a comienzos del siglo xxvii. Hace cincuenta años, el hombre puso en marcha un antiguo sistema alienígena que detectaba el nacimiento de formas de vida inteligentes. Los inhibidores llevan mucho tiempo esperando, pero ahora se preparan para volver...Mientras tanto, una fuerza desconocida ha sembrado el terror en el Sanctasanctorum de los combinados. A medida que la naturaleza de la nueva amenaza se vuelve mas clara, Clavain, uno de sus guerreros, empieza a plantearse que es hora de volver al combate. En Resurgam se ha descubierto un cargamento de armas devastadoras que podrian ser utilizadas para el bien de la Humanidad, pero alguien ya ha logrado hacerse con su control...Con su estilo solido y peculiar, Alastair Reynolds nos vuelve a llevar a los mundos de Espacio Revelacion y Ciudad Abismo en una nueva epopeya que dejara satisfechos tanto a sus fans como al resto de aficionados a la ciencia ficcion.

Algo aniquiló a los amarantinos hace novecientos mil años. Para los colonos humanos que se están asentado en Resurgam, el planeta natal de esta civilización perdida, se trata de un hecho de escaso interés científico, a pesar del descubrimiento de una ciudad casi perfecta y una estatua gigantesca que representa a un amarantino alado. Para Dan Sylveste, sin embargo, es algo más que una mera curiosidad intelectual. Este científico, brillante y despiadado, no se detendrá ante nada hasta conocer la verdad, por elevado que sea su coste. Pero no sabe que los amarantinos fueron exterminados por una razón... ni tampoco que el peligro está más cerca y es mucho más grande de lo que imagina.Alastair Reynolds es por derecho propio desde la última década la nueva vanguardia de la ciencia ficción británica. Con años de experiencia trabajando para la Agencia Espacial Europea, sus obras están dotadas de un extraordinario realismo y desbordan sentido de la maravilla.