I wonder how this could have happened to Reynolds, because he usually tends to fully focus on worldbuilding or future humans´ modifications and its effects on their psychology, ideology, and, duh, physiology cyborging full throttle, but here he escalates towards redundancy. Very long time space colonization caught in time paradoxes, alien artifacts, and a literally endless battle for dominance between different fractions.Ī bit too much character focus that escalates toward drivel We live surrounded by hills, woods and wildlife, and not too much excitement. I met my wife in the Netherlands through a mutual interest in climbing and we married back in 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 moved to the Netherlands to continue my science career and stayed there for a very long time, before eventually returning to Wales.

I was born in Wales, but raised in Cornwall, and then spent time in the north of England and Scotland. 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 write about a novel a year and try to write a few short stories as well. I started off publishing short stories in the British SF magazine Interzone in the early 90s, then eventually branched into novels. 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.

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