
Author · born 1966
Alastair Reynolds
Alastair Reynolds is a British science fiction author (born 1966). Born in Barry.
Our catalogue lists 4 books by Alastair Reynolds, mostly time-travel fiction, steampunk and angel fiction. They span 2004 to 2016. The most-read is Century Rain (2004).
Books by Alastair Reynolds

Century Rain
Alastair Reynolds

Terminal World
Alastair Reynolds

Revenger
Alastair Reynolds

The Six Directions Of Space
Alastair Reynolds
Awards
- ✦Hugo Awards 2016 — Best Novella, Slow Bullets (nominee)
- ✦Hugo Awards 2011 — Best Novella, Troika (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2023 — Best Science Fiction Novel, Eversion (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2022 — Best Collection, Belladonna Nights and Other Stories (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2022 — Best Science Fiction Novel, Inhibitor Phase (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2021 — Best Science Fiction Novel, Bone Silence (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2020 — Best Novella, Permafrost (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2020 — Best Young Adult Book, Shadow Captain (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2019 — Best Science Fiction Novel, Elysium Fire (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2018 — Best Novelette, Night Passage (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2017 — Best Collection, Beyond the Aquila Rift (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2017 — Best Novella, The Iron Tactician (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2017 — Best Science Fiction Novel, The Medusa Chronicles (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2017 — Best Short Story, Sixteen Questions for Kamala Chatterjee (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2017 — Best Young Adult Book, Revenger (nominee)
- 🏆Locus Awards 2016 — Best Novella, Slow Bullets (winner)
- ✦Locus Awards 2016 — Best Science Fiction Novel, Poseidon's Wake (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2016 — Best Short Story, A Murmuration (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2015 — Best Novelette, The Last Log of the Lachrimosa (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2015 — Best Short Story, In Babelsberg (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2014 — Best Science Fiction Novel, On the Steel Breeze (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2013 — Best Science Fiction Novel, Blue Remembered Earth (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2013 — Best Short Story, The Water Thief (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2012 — Best Novelette, The Old Man and the Martian Sea (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2012 — Best Short Story, Ascension Day (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2011 — Best Collection, Deep Navigation (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2011 — Best Novelette, Sleepover (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2011 — Best Novella, Troika (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2011 — Best Science Fiction Novel, Terminal World (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2009 — Best Novelette, Fury (nominee)
Biography
British science fiction author I'm Al, I used to be a space scientist, and now I'm a writer, although for a time the two careers ran in parallel. I started off publishing short stories in the British SF magazine Interzone in the early 90s, then eventually branched into novels. I write about a novel a year and try to write a few short stories as well. Some of my books and stories are set in a consistent future named after Revelation Space, the first novel, but I've done a lot of other things as well and I like to keep things fresh between books. I was born in Wales, but raised in Cornwall, and then spent time in the north of England and Scotland. I moved to the Netherlands to continue my science career and stayed there for a very long time, before eventually returning to Wales. In my spare time I am a very keen runner, and I also enjoying hill-walking, birdwatching, horse-riding, guitar and model-making. I also dabble with paints now and then. I met my wife in the Netherlands through a mutual interest in climbing and we married back in Wales. We live surrounded by hills, woods and wildlife, and not too much excitement.