Century Rain : Gollancz Space Opera Series

Paperback | 1 June 2009 | Edition Number 1

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A noir thriller set in the Revelation Space universe.

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.

Industry Reviews

'The span here is mind-boggling...a breathtaking journey' [GOOD BOOK GUIDE] 'CENTURY RAIN is a darkly brilliant love story, set in worlds we think we know but don't' [GUARDIAN] 'Further proof that he is shaping up into one of SF's best and most ambitious novelists' [SFX]

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