Beyond the Aquila Rift
The Best of Alastair Reynolds
by Alastair Reynolds · first published 2001
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I’d recommend House of Suns. I also love his short story collections - Beyond the Aquila Rift for example. What would be your recommendations?
on “Science Fiction Books Everyone Should Read” ↗…your phone? Cut that noise. 2. Find a read that you are looking forward to. To me, this was some science fiction. I discovered https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alastair_Reynolds via the adaptation of his Beyond the Aquila Rift story by Netflix' Love Death and Robots. I started with his short story collections which have an incredible reading-time-to-payoff ratio - some of the most satisfying world building in short form. It…
on “Ask HN: What can I do to start reading again?” ↗A bit “harder” sci-fi but incredible world building - Alastair Reynolds. I recommend his short stories first - Galactic North is a good start. Or Beyond the Aquila Rift. House of Suns is a good first novel.
on “Life is more than an engineering problem” ↗Wait, what? In what universe is there "barely any science fiction" outside our galaxy? Lensman. The entire Revelation Space series. Beyond the Aquila Rift. Player of Games. Algebraist. Sirens of Titan. Perry Rhodan. And that's off the top of my head. There's quite a bit of SF (both good and trash, and I think the above list has both :) happening outside…
on “Milky Way, 12 years, 1250 hours of exposures and 125 x 22 degrees of sky” ↗House of Suns - sci-fi novel by Allastair Raymolds. Beyond the Aquila Rift, short stories, also by him. The world building is incredible. The Expanse Series. Impro! By Keith Johnstone
on “Ask HN: What's the best book you read in 2021?” ↗I read Galactic North, Beyond the Aquila Rift, and House of Suns - all by Alaistair Raynolds and loved all of them.
on “Ask HN: What Books Do You Recommend Reading for 2022?” ↗Cool. Didn't know it was based on an Alastair Reynolds story. (Also Beyond the Aquila Rift ...)
on “The enduring symbolism of the swimming pool” ↗