Full name: Beyond the Aquila Rift: The Best of Alastair Reynolds

Authors: Alastair Reynolds, William Schafer, Jonathan Strahan Year: 2008 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science fiction, Short Stories, Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781596067660 9781884612770 1596067667 1884612776

Librarian's Note: an alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here. The very best of Alastair Reynolds' more than sixty published short stories are gathered in this anthology, a sweeping 250,000 word career retrospective spanning more than fifteen years. It features the very best stories from the 'Revelation Space' universe alongside thrilling hard science fiction stories, environmental SF tales and thought-provoking shorts. Table of Contents: • Great Wall of Mars • Weather • Beyond the Aquila Rift • Minla's Flowers • Zima Blue • Fury • The Star Surgeon's Apprentice • The Sledge-Maker's Daughter • Diamond Dogs • Thousandth Night • Troika • Sleepover • Vainglory • Trauma Pod • The Last Log of the Lachrymosa • The Water Thief • The Old Man and the Martian Sea • In Babelsberg • Story Notes Similar books: Second Variety by Philip K. Dick All the Sounds of Fear by Harlan Ellison Fun With Your New Head by Thomas M. Disch The Saliva Tree by Brian Aldiss Star Songs of an Old Primate by James Tiptree Jr. Tales of the Grand Tour by Ben Bova The Eye of the Sibyl by Philip K. Dick Untouched by Human Hands by Robert Sheckley Sturgeon is Alive and Well... by Theodore Sturgeon The Case Against Tomorrow by Frederik Pohl The Worlds of Frank Herbert by Frank Herbert The Worlds of Theodore Sturgeon by Theodore Sturgeon A Touch of Strange by Theodore Sturgeon The Repairman by Harry Harrison The Robot Who Looked Like Me by Robert Sheckley The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction by Arthur B. Evans Revolt in 2100 by Robert A. Heinlein Tales from the White Hart by Arthur C. Clarke Masterpieces by Orson Scott Card The Game of Rat and Dragon by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger