Beyond the Aquila Rift: The Best of Alastair Reynolds

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First published in Great Britain in 2016 by Gollancz

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Collection copyright © Dendrocopos Limited 2016

“Great Wall of Mars” Copyright © Alastair Reynolds 2000. First appeared in Spectrum SF #1, February

“Weather” Copyright © Alastair Reynolds 2006. First appeared in Galactic North by Alastair Reynolds, Gollancz/Orion, 2006

“Beyond the Aquila Rift” Copyright © Alastair Reynolds 2005. First appeared in Constellations: The Best of New British SF, ed. by Peter Crowther, DAW Books, 2005.

“Minla’s Flowers” Copyright © Alastair Reynolds 2007. First appeared in The New Space Opera, ed. by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan, Eos/Harper Collins, 2007

“Zima Blue” Copyright © Alastair Reynolds 2005. First appeared in Postscripts, Summer 2005

“Fury” Copyright © Alastair Reynolds 2008. First appeared in Eclipse Two: New Science Fiction and Fantasy ed. by Jonathan Strahan, Night Shade Books, 2008

“The Star Surgeon’s Apprentice” Copyright © Alastair Reynolds 2008. First appeared in The Starry Rift: Tales of New Tomorrows, ed. by Jonathan Strahan, Viking, 2008

“The Sledge-Maker’s Daughter” Copyright © Alastair Reynolds 2007. First appeared in Interzone #209, April 2007

“Diamond Dogs” Copyright © Alastair Reynolds 2001. First appeared in Diamond Dogs by Alastair Reynolds, PS Publishing, 2001

“Thousandth Night” Copyright © Alastair Reynolds 2005. First appeared in One Million A.D. ed by Gardner Dozois, Science Fiction Book Club, 2005

“Troika” Copyright © Alastair Reynolds 2010. First appeared in Godlike Machines ed. by Jonathan Strahan, Science Fiction Book Club, 2010

“Sleepover” Copyright © Alastair Reynolds 2010. First published in The Mammoth Book of Apocalyptic SF, ed. by Mike Ashley, Robinson Publishing Ltd., 2010

“Vainglory” Copyright © Alastair Reynolds 2012. First appeared in Edge of Infinity, ed. by Jonathan Strahan, Solaris Books, 2012

“Trauma Pod” Copyright © Alastair Reynolds 2012. First appeared in Armored, ed. John Joseph Adams, Baen, 2012

“The Last Log of the Lachrimosa” Copyright © Alastair Reynolds 2014. First appeared in Subterranean Magazine, Summer 2014

“The Water Thief” Copyright © Alastair Reynolds 2012. First appeared in Arc 1.1: The Future Always Wins, ed. by Sumit Paul-Choudhury and Simon Ings, 2012

“The Old Man and the Martian Sea” Copyright © Alastair Reynolds 2011. First appeared in Life on Mars: Tales from the New Frontier, ed. by Jonathan Strahan, Viking, 2011

“In Babelsberg” Copyright © Alastair Reynolds 2014. First appeared in Reach for Infinity, ed. by Jonathan Strahan, 2014

“Story Notes” Copyright © Alastair Reynolds 2016. Original to this collection

The moral right of Alastair Reynolds to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988.

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All the characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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