House of Suns: Alastair Reynolds (GOLLANCZ S.F.)

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Time Dilation: The main reason the Gentian Line has persisted for so long. Also, an unavoidable consequence of pretty much any kind of space travel, since if you want to get anywhere in a reasonable amount of time (read: within a couple thousand years), you pretty much have to crank up the g's until you're near lightspeed. Sad Kapteyn" – Originally published online by the School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London [38]

Human Popsicle: Since all travel has to be done STL, all biological travelers are put in abeyance, stasis field where passage of time inside can be tuned to be significantly slower than the outside. Plain cryostasis also exists, however; Purslane prefers it over abeyance because she doesn’t like the feeling of compressed time.Remainers" - Originally published in Tales from the Edge: Escalation, Spiral Arm Studios (July 2017), Stephen Gaskell ed.

each section of the novel is introduced with a passage narrated by Abigail Gentian, the founder of the line (I will Body Horror: The far-future torture technique called "sectioning", in which the victim is gradually cut into smaller and smaller pieces while being kept alive (with advanced technology). Paul Kincaid is the recipient of the SFRA's Thomas D. Clareson Award for Distinguished Service for 2006. I Cannot Self-Terminate: When Hesperus/Valmik starts to invade Cadence's mind to find out why are they taking the Silver Wings of Morning to one of Gentian Stardam, Valmik told her to not bother trying to self-destruct to escape, since he disabled that function.and Purslane is as believable and at times as affecting as anything else he has written. We like these characters, we

As Whates states in his Afterword, "The British Science Fiction Association is all about the people who read, watch, talk about, dream about and are passionate about science fiction." And that passion shows in the 17 stories selected to commemorate the BSFA's 50th year. They range in tone from the sombre to the humorous, and include many of the most cherished examples of the genre by luminaries such as Aldiss, Baxter, Stableford, Priest and Watson, as well as a couple of off-beat offerings: Molly Brown's mordant zombie story and Dave Hutchinson's clever amalgam of fantasy and science fiction in which elves take over a post-technological Britain. The volume ends on a high note with Adam Roberts' arch "The Man of the Strong Arm", in which a male-dominated society is threatened by a truth buried in the text of a rediscovered artform, science fiction. Once a physicist: Alastair Reynolds". www.iop.org. Archived from the original on 26 August 2019 . Retrieved 26 August 2019. the idea of willingly contemplating millennia without human company makes them distinctly non-human to my mind, and the Alexander, Niall (12 June 2014). "Step into the Stars: Reach for Infinity, ed. Jonathan Strahan". Tor.com . Retrieved 13 December 2015. The Six Directions of Space", ISBN 978-1596061842 – Originally published in Galactic Empires (September 2007 [36]), Gardner Dozois, ed.

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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 the future of humanity than any of his previous novels. It contains an alternative interpretation of the Fermi paradox: intelligent sentient life in this universe is extremely scarce. Reynolds states that he is "firmly intending" to return to the Pushing Ice setting to write a sequel. [6] Sub-Lightspeed Setting: Countless millennia in the future clone-lines traveling the galaxy at near-lightspeed provide some continuity of civilization for the countless human and posthuman colonies across space.