Review
"Century Rain is a darkly brilliant love story, set in worlds we think we know but don't." (Jon Courtenay Grimwood GUARDIAN )
"Further proof that he is shaping up into one of SF's best and most ambitious novelists". (Jonathan Wright SFX )
"This is an intelligent space opera" (Roz Kaveney Time Out )
"Century Rain is an absolute cracker of a novel. Reynolds has always been a consistently bright star in the firmament of British sci-fi but now he has suddenly, perhaps unexpectedly, gone supernova. (OUTLAND OTTAKAR'S )
"Century Rain is an exciting, thought-provoking novel, an audacious synthesis of genre forms. Alastair Reynolds is now in his novelistic prime." (Nick Gevers LOCUS )
While science ficiton and mystery have often been combined, no writer has done so with such intelligence or originality as Alastair Reynolds. In a single novel, he steps from the mean streets to the far future." (Rick Kleffel Interzone )
"Century Rain demonstrates the growing maturity of his talent" (Edge Magazine )
"Leaves you wishing that more science fiction was this good. A genuinely great book." (Brigid Cherry Dreamwatch )
"With Century Rain, Alastair Reynolds continues the coruscating path he has blazed through SF skies. This a whopping 500-pager, brimming with ideas." (Barry Seddon Manchester Evening News ) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
"Further proof that he is shaping up into one of SF's best and most ambitious novelists". (Jonathan Wright SFX )
"This is an intelligent space opera" (Roz Kaveney Time Out )
"Century Rain is an absolute cracker of a novel. Reynolds has always been a consistently bright star in the firmament of British sci-fi but now he has suddenly, perhaps unexpectedly, gone supernova. (OUTLAND OTTAKAR'S )
"Century Rain is an exciting, thought-provoking novel, an audacious synthesis of genre forms. Alastair Reynolds is now in his novelistic prime." (Nick Gevers LOCUS )
While science ficiton and mystery have often been combined, no writer has done so with such intelligence or originality as Alastair Reynolds. In a single novel, he steps from the mean streets to the far future." (Rick Kleffel Interzone )
"Century Rain demonstrates the growing maturity of his talent" (Edge Magazine )
"Leaves you wishing that more science fiction was this good. A genuinely great book." (Brigid Cherry Dreamwatch )
"With Century Rain, Alastair Reynolds continues the coruscating path he has blazed through SF skies. This a whopping 500-pager, brimming with ideas." (Barry Seddon Manchester Evening News ) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Jonathan Wright, SFX
"Further proof that he is shaping up into one of the SF's best and most ambitious novelists".
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Roz Kaveney, Time Out
"This is an intelligent space opera"
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Edge Magazine
"Century Rain demonstrates the growing maturity of his talent"
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Book Description
Part hard SF thriller, part interstellar adventure, part noir romance, CENTURY RAIN is the new bestseller from Al Reynolds
Jonathan Wright, SFX
"Further proof that he is shaping up into one of SF's best and most ambitious novelists".
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
OUTLAND OTTAKAR'S
"Century Rain is an absolute cracker of a novel. Reynolds has always been a consistently bright star in the firmament of British sci-fi but now he has suddenly, perhaps unexpectedly, gone supernova.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Nick Gevers, LOCUS
"Century Rain is an exciting, thought-provoking novel, an audacious synthesis of genre forms. Alastair Reynolds is now in his novelistic prime."
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Rick Kleffel, Interzone
While science ficiton and mystery have often been combined, no writer has done so with such intelligence or originality as Alastair Reynolds. In a single novel, he steps from the mean streets to the far future."
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Barry Seddon, Manchester Evening News
"With Century Rain, Alastair Reynolds continues the coruscating path he has blazed through SF skies. This a whopping 500-pager, brimming with ideas."
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Product Description
Three hundred years in the future, Verity Auger is a specialist in the archaeological exploration of Earth, rendered uninhabitable after the technological catastrophe known as the Nanocaust. After a field-trip to goes badly wrong, Verity is forced to redeem herself by participating in a dangerous mission, for which her expertise in invaluable. Using a backdoor into an unstable alien transit system, Auger's faction has discovered something astonishing at the far end of a wormhole: mid twentieth-century Earth, preserved like a fly in amber. Is it a window into the past, a simulation, or something else entirely? CENTURY RAIN is not just a time-travel story, nor a tale of alternate history. Part hard SF thriller, part interstellar adventure, part noir romance, CENTURY RAIN is something altogether stranger.
About the Author
Alastair Reynolds was born in Barry, South Wales, in 1966. He studied at Newcastle and St Andrews Universities and has a Ph.D. in astronomy. Since 1991 he has lived in the Netherlands, near Leiden, where he works part-time as an astrophysicist for the European Space Agency.
