Alastair Reynolds

Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight....

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 Inhibitors were designed to eliminate any life-form reaching a certain level of intelligence---and they've targeted humanity....

Three hundred years from now, Earth has been rendered uninhabitable due to the technological catastrophe known as the Nanocaust....

2057. Humanity has raised exploiting the solar system to an art form....

Miguel de Ruyter is a man with a past. Fleeing the 'wolves'—the xenocidal alien machines known as Inhibitors—he has protected his family and community from attack for forty years, sheltering in the caves of an airless, battered world called Michaelmas....

Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a law enforcement officer with the Panoply....

Late in the 26th century, the human race has advanced enough to accidentally trigger the Inhibitors---alien-killing machines designed to detect intelligent life and destroy it....

The galaxy has seen great empires rise and fall. Planets have shattered and been remade. Amongst the ruins of alien civilisations, building our own from the rubble, humanity still thrives....

Following an accident that almost cost him his life, Howard Falcon was not so much saved as he was converted, through the use of prosthetics, into something faster, stronger and smarter....

Spearpoint, the last human city, is an atmosphere-piercing spire of vast size....

Galactic North imparts the centuries-spanning events that have produced the dark and turbulent world of Revelation Space....

Panoply is a small, efficient police force, dedicated to maintaining the rule of democracy among the ten thousand disparate city states orbiting the planet Yellowstone. Ingvar Tench was one of Panoply's most experienced operatives....

The once-utopian Chasm City - a domed human settlement on an otherwise inhospitable planet - has been overrun by a virus known as the Melding Plague....

Two sisters ran away from home to join the crew of a spaceship. They took on pirates, faced down monsters and survived massacres...and now they're in charge....

The planet Golgotha - supposedly lifeless - resides in a remote star system, far from those inhabited by human colonists....

A thousand years in the future, mankind's influence expands into the universe....

A small group of intrepid explorers are in search of a remote and mysterious artefact. It's a well-funded expedition, which is lucky as they're sailing north of Bergen on the schooner Demeter, searching for a narrow inlet which will lead them to a vast uncharted lake....

One hundred and fifty years from now, Geoffrey Akinya wants only one thing: to be left in peace, so that he can continue his studies into the elephants. But Geoffrey's family has other plans....

One citizen died a fortnight ago. Two a week ago. Four died yesterday...and unless the cause can be found - and stopped - within the next four months, everyone will be dead....