CHASM CITY, as well as the collections DIAMOND DOGS, TURQUOISE DAYS and GALACTIC NORTH, can be read at any point. Great Wall of Mars – (2205, published 2000) – short story, published in Galactic North 2. Little is known about the Fountainhead history other than their realm used to contain many hundreds of thousands of extrasolar systems and at some point uncovered the relics of a long gone humanity. The story doesn't need any additional chapters, but I would love to see a sequel because I would really enjoy further exploration of this universe in the company of the oh-so-personable shatterlings. There are three books in the REVENGER sequence. Another several decades go by as the Fountainheads and the humans co-exist. Jim Chisholm, Bella's second-in-command, is in sickbay with a newly discovered brain cancer. The Congress has advanced femtotechnology granting the citizens fantastic capabilities such as near-instant travel, near-light speed spacecraft, immortality etc. Pushing Ice is a great book, and I lost some sleep because I couldn’t put it down. Those that are rejuvenated still age, but more slowly. BLUE REMEMBERED EARTH (2012), ON THE STEEL BREEZE (2013), POSEIDON’S WAKE (2015): The Poseidon’s Children trilogy, tracing the members of a spacefaring African family across many centuries of future history, but with only tenuous connections between the books. Whilst ‘Pushing Ice’ is hard science-fiction, and not to the tastes of all. I really need to read it again. Musk Dogs themselves resemble "many dogs fighting over a single bone". Bella Lind operates the Rockhopper, a ship designed to mine comets for ice in the outer solar system. Fountainhead technology is far in advance of the technology available to the Rockhopper crew. The outer layer of limbs are thicker and used for locomotion (tractor limbs), inner sets hang above the floor and are used for finer manipulation, the inner most limbs resemble gossamer threads and provide sensory information. Svetlana (in defiance of Bella's advice) trades with the Musk Dogs for a passkey in return for access to Janus. I am open to the idea of another book in this sequence, if the ideas and will are there. In exchange for access to some of this power the Fountainheads trade history and technology from Earth from the time after the Rockhopper left. I have vague intentions to return to the universes of PI and HOS, but nothing firm, and I don’t intend to return to the worlds of CR or TW, much as I’m fond of those books. According to Alastair himself, no sequel will ever be made on Century Rain. Humanity has raised exploiting the solar system to an art form. Joined Jun 29, 2010 Messages 7,942 Location Scottish Highlands. My most recent novel is SHADOW CAPTAIN. Vertigo Mad Mountain Man. But nothing can prepare them for the surprises in store when Janus, one of Saturn's ice moons, spins out of control. I have always said I would return to this universe one day and I still hope to do so. This is a novel of big ideas occurring over cosmic timescales. EDIT: also OP, if you liked Pushing Ice, I would recommend the short story Beyond the Aquilla Rift. While on a routine mission, Lind is informed that Saturn's moon Janus has deviated from its normal orbit, and is accelerating out of the solar system. A while ago, I stumbled over Redemption Ark, found the blurb on the back interesting, and bought it.After reading it, I went back and bought Pushing Ice, too.After that I decided that I liked the guy and that it's time I started to approach this systematically. Upon their arrival in the Structure they immediately set about attacking nearby civilisations causing the genocide of one race and the near extinction of another. Even though we follow the same characters throughout the book, so much happens that it has the feel of a big, sprawling, multi-generational epic. Reynolds has written a number of hefty space opera tomes since his debut novel, Revelation Space in 2000, but Slow Bullets clocks in at a slim 200 pages. THE PREFECT (AURORA RISING) and ELYSIUM FIRE may be read alone or jointly, but should best be read in the above order. Their mastery over biology is further demonstrated by their resurrection of previously dead (and now frozen) members of the crew and their ability to rejuvenate crew members to a younger age. ABSOLUTION GAP (2003) BSFA shortlist. Pushing Ice is the brilliant tale of extraordinary aliens, glittering technologies, and sweeping space opera from award-winning science fiction author Alastair Reynolds. Their ships resemble bubbles of coloured glass and have the ability to suppress inertia and manipulate gravity. Pictures from her ship reveal the structure to be a Torus the size of a planetary system, with part of the structure missing at its center (believed to be the Spicans' quarters). Janus (as with all new worlds in the Structure) holds vast power reserves. Pushing Ice is the brilliant tale of extraordinary aliens, glittering technologies, and sweeping space opera from award-winning science fiction author Alastair Reynolds. When they arrive, Svetlana meets with the Musk Dogs and trades with them, she tries to regain control of the colony, but her actions set off a chain of events that destroys Janus and requires everyone to evacuate. They mine comets. He then started spending much of his writing time on a first novel, which eventually turned into Revelation Space, while the few short stories he submitted from 1991–1995 were re… Jul 5, 2018. A far future human civilisation inhabiting a region of space roughly 500ly in diameter. CHASM CITY (2001) BSFA winner in 2002. Moments of utter insanity there. Bella Lind and the crew of her nuclear-powered ship, the Rockhopper, push ice. Bella dies during the evacuation of Janus, but her body is nonetheless brought along with the evacuating colony. They work out a way of deriving power from some alien technology they find, and slowly start to improve their living conditions. This time you have to work out the best way to put out the fires by pushing ice blocks onto them. To get the most out of the Revelation Space series, here is the recommended reading order. Reveals are easily guessed. My only criticism is that too often the plot fails to surprise. In the 2050s the United Nations has developed into a body that represents not just nations but any corporation with sufficient economic wealth. Account & Lists Account & Lists Returns & Orders. The Ness sisters ran away from home to become the most fearsome pirates in the twenty thousand worlds of the Congregation. Steampunky action on a dying world, with a mystery under the skin of things. My intention was that the individual volumes would each function as a well-formed standalone novel. Pushing Ice (Book) : Reynolds, Alastair : 2057. SHADOW CAPTAIN (2019): the second book concerning the Ness sisters, following from Revenger. They eventually arrive at a vast megastructure where they meet an alien species, called 'Fountainheads'. They are highly territorial with different members of the ship constantly competing with each other, visitors are marked by greeting Musk Dogs in an effort to gain status, Musk Dogs that displease their pack are often eaten. [4] Pushing Ice is also a standalone story, with characters from much less distant in the future than in any of his other novels, set into a framework storyline that extends much further into … So God needs to hire a new social media specialist, because Satan is crapping all over him. In this version, the player battles new zombies in a time travel motif.. After the events of Plants vs. Zombies, zombies once again attack the front yard. Pushing Ice is more hard SF while House of Suns is more far flung but personal. With a 75,000-copy first printing. A single Fountainhead is around 3 metres tall and resembles a flowing fountain with multiple layers of coloured limbs erupting from a central core, such as found on a willow tree. 2057. I think you will really enjoy it. The thrilling finale to the Revenger Trilogy tells a desperate tale of greed, piracy, shadow governments, and ancient secrets that could unravel all of civilization. The Rockhopper is owned by one such entity and gains official UEE status upon commencing its interception with Janus. this is one of my favorite books. Indeed, these sensory limbs often weave together to form a "hi-res" eye as named by the Rockhopper Crew. Named after their appearance these enigmatic aliens are the first to contact the crew of the Rockhopper after their arrival at the Structure. The Fountainheads are trading advanced technology with the colony in exchange for drilling rights on Janus, whose core is a vast energy resource. Pushing Ice begins in the distant future, where the elected rulers of the "Congress of the Lindblad Ring" gather to decide on a suitable ceremony to honour a woman they consider responsible for the technological advancement and territorial expansion of the future human race, Bella Lind. A highly factious species, the Musk Dogs are another species of the Structure. A right-wing columnist says Oprah and the Ice Bucket Challenge are pushing Satanism. This novel starts like a "future history" story, where cometary mining is economically viable but dangerous and "the United Economic Entities" rule the world - apart from China, which is ostracised because it still experiments with nano-technology. I never had the trouble with any of the Revelation Space books that I … Their ships resemble large organic bones with bits of other ships and technologies bolted on (and floating around) the main section; the only ship to be seen is named The Gristleship by Bella owing to its unfavourable look. PUSHING ICE (2005) Clarke shortlist. I've love to see a sequel. 2057. Much later, I gave the novella Slow Bullets a go. Try Introduced to Bella by the Fountainheads the Whisperers are a strange race also inhabiting the Structure. This decision has far reaching implications for the rest of the characters. Sent out into the galaxy, these shatterlings have stood aloof as they document the rise and fall of countless human empires. According to Reynolds' Web site, the story takes place in a different universe from his Revelation Space stories. The relationship between the population of Janus and the Fountainheads is one of benevolent trade. End times approach; religious lunatics appear. Eventually it becomes apparent that the ship is heading towards Spica, a close binary pair in the constellation of Virgo. PUSHING ICE (2005) Clarke shortlist. HOUSE OF SUNS (2008) Clarke shortlist. My novel-length books to date are, in order and date of UK publication: REVELATION SPACE (2000) BSFA and Clarke shortlist. Reynolds wrote his first four published science fiction short stories while still a graduate student, in 1989–1991; they appeared in 1990–1992, his first sale being to Interzone. The only dealing any inhabitant of Janus has with the Musk Dogs is when The Gristleship arrives in orbit and after hacking into the communications net broadcast propaganda claiming that the Fountainheads are exploiting the humans and that trade with the Musk Dogs would be far more profitable as they are willing to give technologies far beyond what they currently possess (inertialess drives, femtotechnology, passkeys for the endcap doors in the Structure to name but a few). Bella does not exile Svetlana, even if she chooses a form of self-exile. The technologies are a vast boon to the humans and launch their society from barely surviving to one of high luxury and prosperity. Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds is a 2005 novel that is set in a different universe from his Revelation Space novels. Fire N' Ice : The sequel to Solomon's key isn't really that much like the original, but its still manages to be equally great. Near future space exploration and first contact, and a wild ride into the deep, distant future for the crew of the mining vehicle Rockhopper. Steve and I hatched an idea to write a sequel to Arthur C Clarke’s seminal short story “A Meeting with Medusa” and with the kind permission of the Clarke estate we were able to do so. Fountainhead society is stated as having no factions but other than this little is known about their culture. To explain her role, the chronology is then pushed back to the early days of humanity's manned exploration of the solar system, where it is explained that Lind is the captain of the Rockhopper, a spacecraft used for mining cometary ice. Pushing Ice is twelve years old now. REVENGER (2016): a standalone novel unrelated to any of the others, set more than ten million years in the future, and dealing with the adventures of the Ness sisters in a pirate-influenced action story with space operatic overtones. Fountainhead psychology is fundamentally different from humans in ways that no human can really comprehend, it becomes apparent that the Fountainhead's perception of time is not linear but is strongly dependent on events. The crew, numbering about 150 people, likes Jim very much, but they are not sure Bella is worthy of their support; a commander whose gender is female still causes some reduction of respect among people because of her gender. A Spy in Europa – (ca. The reading order isn’t that critical, in my view, but it probably improves things to read REVELATION SPACE, REDEMPTION ARK and ABSOLUTION GAP in that sequence. REDEMPTION ARK (2002) More fun with killer aliens. Glacial – (2217, published 2001) – short story, published in SF Spectrum 3. Gothic space opera with slower than light travel and speculation about extra-terrestrial intelligences. 2005: The novel Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds (Passing reference). Published in January 2019, it will soon be followed by BONE SILENCE. That gave me the shove to tangle with the Revelation Space trilogy. The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet. They mine comets. Our novel takes the character Howard Falcon and catapults him across centuries of tension and strife between human and robotic forces, with Falcon as an uneasy and at times unwilling intermediary between the two. Six million years ago, at the very dawn of the starfaring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones: the shatterlings. The Whisperers do not appear to behave as a single faction with one Whisperer providing intelligence to the Fountainheads and others selling passkeys to the Musk Dogs and the Uncontained. The only restriction is that they cannot heal brain damage without the patient losing part of his/her personality. A crisis for Prefect Dreyfus in the near-utopia of the Glitter Band. Pushing Ice is a 2005 science fiction novel by Welsh author Alastair Reynolds. They mine comets. The attempted construction of the passkey leads to an outbreak of replicating femtotech causing many deaths, at the same time it is revealed that the Musk Dogs are not tapping energy from Janus but priming the moon to explode so as to blow a hole in the wall of the Structure. by Alastair Reynolds. At one point a crew member observes that 100 years of nothing is less time to a Fountainhead than a busy five minutes. Not all strong economies are part of the UEE however, these "Rogue states" include China who were expelled for their reckless experiments with forge vat technology leading to a grey goo outbreak. Bella Lind and her crew of the Rockhopper push ice; that is they attach crude drives to icy comets and send them on their way to the inner solar system. Again, I would like to return to this universe but I have no fixed plans for when that will happen. 2330 – 2340, published 1997) – short story 4. THE MEDUSA CHRONICLES (2016): with Stephen Baxter. Bella Lind and the crew of her nuclear-powered ship, the Rockhopper, push ice. I like at least a little hope or levity in my universe. Contains moving cathedrals and speculation about braneworlds. Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time, commonly shortened to Plants vs. Zombies 2, is a tower defense game released by PopCap Games.This game is a sequel to Plants vs. Zombies.It was released for iOS devices on Thursday, August 15, 2013. Humanity has raised exploiting the solar system to an art form. Near future space exploration and first contact, and a wild ride into the deep, distant future for the crew of the mining vehicle Rockhopper. Hello, Sign in. I went, “yeah, nah,” about Pushing Ice. Reactions: Brian G Turner. THE PREFECT (2007) Crime and punishment in the RS universe. They are said to live on the other side of the "matter gap" and as such cannot interact with ordinary matter (much like the hypothetical mirror matter). Space opera, parallel worlds, jazz, etc. CENTURY RAIN (2004) A murder mystery in 1959 Paris opens a can of worms for struggling PI and jazzman Wendell Floyd. TERMINAL WORLD (2010) Wales Book of the Year finalist. #1. Of my books to date, six are set in the same “Revelation Space” universe. Her body remains in stasis for decades, waiting for the Fountainheads to restore her to life; she eventually awakens to learn that a new human colony has been established elsewhere in the structure. The Fountainheads are able to rejuvenate humans, healing injuries and making them younger. Little is known about The Uncontained but they are said to be a fiercely violent race. The Prefect is set in the RS world, but it is a police procedural, as is the recent sequel novel. Svetlana, with the assistance of the Fountainheads, leaves the structure through the gap created by the explosion. However, on their approach to the moon, revealed to be a camouflaged alien spacecraft, Lind and her crew are caught in the field of the ship's inertialess drive, causing them to travel farther and faster than expected, and beyond their capacity to return to Earth. I'd read them both. The protagonist, Bella Lind, is the captain of a huge commercial spacecraft designed to move comets back to the inner worlds for processing. BONE SILENCE (2020): the third and final novel of the Ness sisters. Bella Lind remarks on the mastery of genetics that the Fountainheads possess, in spite of having few records of terrestrial marine life the Fountainheads are able to engineer a variety of fish that would not be out of place if found on Earth. A personal favorite of mine, although I’ve sworn there will never be a sequel. The alien presence is played poorly by Svetlana who loses control of the colony to Bella. The Whisperers can pass through most Structure doors unhindered but with some have to use passkeys like other races, it is implied that the Whisperers have an advantage in making passkeys as other races buy these keys from them. Pushing Ice isn't perfect, but it doesn't deserve some of the very negative reviews it has received (one talks about FTL travel which doesn't appear anywhere in the novel other than as speculation during conversation - so they haven't read it that carefully). The novel traces the life of the colony for many years as they try to eke out an existence on Janus and determine why it is moving through space. Weather – (2358, published 2006) – short story, published in Galactic North 5. ELYSIUM FIRE (2018): a sequel to THE PREFECT (the latter now retitled AURORA RISING in the UK). 2017 will see the publication of the follow-up, set two years after the events of this book and featuring the established cast. A hardboiled pursuit/revenge thriller set in the RS universe. 2057. The fountainheads are a member species of the Shaft-Five Nexus, a group of like minded species who have a very stringent set of rules of order. And when the Saturnian moon Janus suddenly starts acting more like a high speed alien spacecraft than a moon, the Rockhopper is dispatched to try and rendevous with it before the moon leaves the solar system. I’ve also written a Doctor Who novel, HARVEST OF TIME, about which I say a bit more here. ----- 66. The encounter with the benevolent aliens improves the colonists' situation dramatically. Scottish Highlands. They mine comets. Towards the end of the novel the Fountainheads discover that The Uncontained are on the warpath and heading for Janus, indeed they are in league with the Musk Dogs and plan to use the destruction of Janus to escape the Structure. Check out this biography to know about his birthday, childhood, family life, achievements and fun facts about him. Realising their predicament, the crew decide to land on the moon and attempt to survive the flight out of the Solar System, wherever it may take them. They resemble terrestrial dogs but are much larger with multiple legs, genitalia and mouths at odd angles. An elected representative from each member planet meets once every few hundred years to discuss governance of the Congress. Nearing their 10,000 year anniversary the representatives meet to discuss what to do to commemorate this occasion. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pushing_Ice&oldid=997748707, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 2 January 2021, at 01:31.

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