Alastair Reynolds

Quick Facts

Full Name	Alastair Reynolds
Occupation	Astrophysicist
Date Of Birth	Mar 13, 1966(1966-03-13)
Age	58
Birthplace	Barry
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	Barry
Horoscope	Pisces

Alastair Reynolds Biography

Alastair Reynolds is one of the most popular and richest Astrophysicist who was born on March 13, 1966 in Barry, Barry, United Kingdom. Alastair Preston Reynolds (born 13 March 1966) is a British science fiction author. He specialises in hard science fiction and space opera. He spent his early years in Cornwall, moved back to Wales before going to Newcastle University, where he read physics and astronomy. Afterwards, he earned a PhD in astrophysics from the University of St Andrews. In 1991, he moved to Noordwijk in the Netherlands where he met his wife Josette (who is from France). There, he worked for the European Space Research and Technology Centre (part of the European Space Agency) until 2004 when he left to pursue writing full-time. He returned to Wales in 2008 and lives near Cardiff.

House of Suns is a standalone novel set in the same universe as his novella “Thousandth Night” from the One Million A.D. anthology. It was released in the UK on 17 April 2008 and in the US on 2 June 2009. Reynolds described it as “Six million years in the future, starfaring clones, tensions between human and robot metacivilisations, King Crimson jokes.” Reynolds states that he is “firmly intending” to return to the House of Suns setting to write a sequel.

Terminal World, published in March 2010 was described by Reynolds as “a kind of steampunk-tinged planetary romance, set in the distant future”. As with Century Rain, Reynolds has said that he does not plan any further work in the universe of Terminal World.

Between 2012 and 2015 Reynolds released three novels set in a new universe called Poseidon’s Children: Blue Remembered Earth (2012), On the Steel Breeze (2014), and Poseidon’s Wake (2015). The novels comprise a hard science fiction trilogy dealing with the expansion of the human species into the solar system and beyond, and the emergence of Africa as a spacefaring, technological super- state.

The Prefect marked a return to the Revelation Space universe. Like Chasm City, it is a stand-alone novel within that setting. It is set prior to any of the other Revelation Space novels, though still 200 years after the original human settlement is established on the planet Yellowstone in the Epsilon Eridani system. It was published in the United Kingdom on 2 April 2007. Since its publication, the title of The Prefect has been changed to Aurora Rising to more align with the name of the sequel, Elysium Fire, which was published in 2018, marking the first novel length return to the Revelation Space universe since 2007. This sub-series within the Revelation Space universe is now called The Prefect Dreyfus Emergencies. Reynolds states that he has “tentative plans for three more Dreyfus titles, with an arc that would eventually take him beyond Yellowstone, and then back again.”

Alastair Reynolds Net Worth

Alastair Reynolds is one of the richest Astrophysicist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Alastair Reynolds 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Reynolds wrote his first four published science fiction short stories while still a graduate student, in 1989–1991; they appeared in 1990–1992, his first sale being to Interzone. In 1991 Reynolds graduated and moved from Scotland to the Netherlands to work at ESA. He then started spending much of his writing time on a first novel, which eventually turned into Revelation Space, while the few short stories he submitted from 1991–1995 were rejected. This ended in 1995 when his story “Byrd Land Six” was published, which he says marked the beginning of a more serious phase of writing. As of 2011 he has published over forty shorter works and nine novels. His works are hard science fiction veiled behind space opera and noir toned stories, and reflect his professional expertise with physics and astronomy, included by extrapolating future technologies in terms that are consistent, for the most part, with current science. Reynolds has said he prefers to keep the science in his books to what he personally believes will be possible, and he does not believe faster-than- light travel will ever be possible, but that he adopts science he believes will be impossible when it is necessary for the story. Most of Reynolds’s novels contain multiple storylines that originally appear to be completely unrelated, but merge later in the story.

Reynolds’s fiction has received three awards and several other nominations. His second novel Chasm City won the 2001 British Science Fiction Award for Best Novel. His short story “Weather” won the Japanese National Science Fiction Convention’s Seiun Award for Best Translated Short Fiction. His novels Absolution Gap and The Prefect have also been nominated for previous BSFA awards. Reynolds has been nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award three times, for his novels Revelation Space, Pushing Ice and House of Suns. In 2010, he won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History for his short story “The Fixation”. His novella Troika made the shortlist for the 2011 Hugo Awards. His Novel Revenger received the 2017 Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book.

In June 2009 Reynolds signed a new deal, worth £1 million, with his British publishers for ten books to be published over the next ten years.

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Who is Alastair Reynolds Dating?

According to our records, Alastair Reynolds married to Josette Sanchez- Reynolds. As of December 1, 2023, Alastair Reynolds’s is not dating anyone.

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Facts & Trivia

Alastair Ranked on the list of most popular Astrophysicist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Alastair Reynolds celebrates birthday on March 13 of every year.

What order should I read Alastair Reynolds books?

• The Six Directions of Space (2008)
• Zima Blue (2009)
• Troika (2011)
• Sleepover (2012)
• Thousandth Night (2013)
• Slow Bullets (2015)

Where should I start with Alastair Reynolds?

If you prefer to start with an author’s latest work, there is no better time to dive into the works of Alastair Reynolds. We just recently published the concluding volume of his Revenger trilogy this spring.

Is pushing ice part of a series?

CENTURY RAIN, PUSHING ICE, HOUSE OF SUNS and TERMINAL WORLD are all unrelated standalone novels.

Is chasm city standalone?

Chasm City is the sequel to Revelation Space but works fine as a standalone. Chasm City follows two main characters via a narrative in which one man, Tanner Mirabel, has visions of another man, Sky Haussmann.

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