Description
This companion volume to Galactic North showcases Alastair Reynolds' superb writing: a decade and a half of short stories ranging from the near future into deepest time and space. In Reynolds' universes there may be wars, there may be catastrophes and cosmic errors, but something human will still survive.
These stories-three never before anthologised - range from 'Spirey and the Queen', a tale of warring machines and their human masters in a distant, still-forming solar system, to an intimate portrayal of a relationship complicated by contact between parallel universes in 'Signal to Noise'. In 'Merlin's Gun' the fabled adventurer finds a terrible weapon after a 10,000-year search; is it a gift, or a curse? And the title story, 'Zima Blue', unravels the life of an enigmatic artist who works in a colour named for him; he has progressed from small pictures to star-sized installations and the artwork on which he is now engaged will be the final piece of his career and it will reveal his mysterious past to a waiting world.
So step into the worlds created by Alastair Reynolds' fertile imagination, and discover the human side of science fiction.
'Reynolds does short stories with particular flair, and this collection contains some spectacular SF storytelling' Booklist
ISBN:9780575084056
