Anthologies#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Ant-Men of Tibet and Other Stories |
1999 |
Buy |
| Space Soldiers |
2001 |
Buy |
| Infinities |
2002 |
Buy |
| The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 15 |
2002 |
Buy |
| The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 16 |
2003 |
Buy |
| The Hard SF Renaissance |
2003 |
Buy |
| Constellations |
2005 |
Buy |
| One Million A.D. |
2005 |
Buy |
| The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction |
2006 |
Buy |
| The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection |
2006 |
Buy |
| Year’s Best SF 11 |
2006 |
Buy |
| Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2006 |
2006 |
Buy |
| The Space Opera Renaissance |
2006 |
Buy |
| The Best of the Best, Vol 2 |
2007 |
Buy |
| The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection |
2007 |
Buy |
| The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 21 |
2008 |
Buy |
| The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 22 |
2008 |
Buy |
| Federations |
2009 |
Buy |
| The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF |
2009 |
Buy |
| Shine: An Anthology of Near-Future Optimistic Science Fiction |
2010 |
Buy |
| The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection |
2011 |
Buy |
| Lightspeed: Year One |
2011 |
Buy |
| The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection |
2012 |
Buy |
| Rock On: The Greatest Hits of Science Fiction & Fantasy |
2012 |
Buy |
| Aliens: Recent Encounters |
2013 |
Buy |
| Best New SF 26 |
2013 |
Buy |
| Memoryville Blues: A Postscripts Anthology 30/31 |
2013 |
Buy |
| Robot Uprisings |
2014 |
Buy |
| Dead Man’s Hand |
2014 |
Buy |
| The Year’s Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 6 |
2014 |
Buy |
| The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection |
2014 |
Buy |
| The Year’s Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 7 |
2015 |
Buy |
| The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume One |
2016 |
Buy |
| Bridging Infinity |
2016 |
Buy |
| The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Two |
2017 |
Buy |
| The Best Science Fiction of the Year Volume Three |
2017 |
Buy |
| The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection |
2017 |
Buy |
| Infinite Stars |
2017 |
Buy |
| The Year’s Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 10 |
2018 |
Buy |
| 2001: An Odyssey in Words |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Year’s Top Robot and AI Stories |
2019 |
Buy |
| The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Five |
2020 |
Buy |
| Love, Death and Robots: The Official Anthology: Volume One |
2021 |
Buy |
| Best of British Science Fiction 2023 |
2024 |
Buy |
Doctor Who: Third Doctor Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Curse of Peladon |
1975 |
Buy |
| Doctor Who: The Wheel of Ice |
2012 |
N/A |
| The Paradise of Death |
1993 |
Buy |
| Harvest of Time |
2013 |
Buy |
| Dancing the Code |
1995 |
Buy |
| The Ghosts of N-Space |
1995 |
Buy |
| Doctor Who: In The Blood |
2016 |
N/A |
| The Scales of Injustice |
1996 |
Buy |
| Doctor Who: The Magician’s Oath |
2009 |
Buy |
| Council of War |
2013 |
Buy |
| Damascus |
2016 |
N/A |
| Doctor Who: Damascus |
2016 |
N/A |
Inspector Dreyfus / Prefect Dreyfus Emergency Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Aurora |
2007 |
N/A |
| Aurora Rising / The Prefect |
2007 |
Buy |
| Open and Shut |
2018 |
N/A |
| Elysium Fire |
2018 |
Buy |
| Machine Vendetta |
2024 |
Buy |
Merlin Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Interzone 157 |
2000 |
N/A |
| Thousandth Night / Minla’s Flowers |
2009 |
N/A |
| The Iron Tactician |
2016 |
Buy |
| Merlin’s Gun |
2000 |
Buy |
Poseidon’s Children Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Blue Remembered Earth |
2012 |
Buy |
| On the Steel Breeze |
2012 |
Buy |
| Poseidon’s Wake |
2015 |
Buy |
Revelation Space Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Revelation Space eBook Collection |
2011 |
N/A |
| Aurora |
2007 |
N/A |
| Elysium Fire |
2018 |
N/A |
| Machine Vendetta |
2023 |
N/A |
| Kaldera 2 |
2001 |
N/A |
| Migotliwa Wstęga t1. Pościg |
2001 |
N/A |
| Migotliwa Wstęga t2. Odwet |
2001 |
N/A |
| Revelation Space |
2000 |
Buy |
| Unendlichkeit |
2000 |
N/A |
| Diamond Dogs |
2001 |
Buy |
| Chasm City |
2001 |
Buy |
| Archa 1 |
2002 |
N/A |
| Offenbarung |
2003 |
N/A |
| Galactic North |
2006 |
Buy |
| Redemption Ark |
2002 |
Buy |
| Susien aika |
2021 |
N/A |
| Turquoise Days |
2003 |
Buy |
| Absolution Gap |
2003 |
Buy |
| Inhibitor Phase |
2021 |
Buy |
Revenger Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Kostaja |
2016 |
N/A |
| Revenger |
2016 |
Buy |
| Shadow Captain |
2019 |
Buy |
| Varjokapteeni |
2019 |
N/A |
| Bone Silence |
2020 |
Buy |
Short Stories/Novellas#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| A Spy in Europa |
1997 |
N/A |
| Great Wall of Mars |
2000 |
N/A |
| Weather |
2006 |
Buy |
| The Six Directions of Space |
2008 |
Buy |
| Zima Blue |
2009 |
Buy |
| Troika |
2011 |
Buy |
| Sleepover |
2012 |
Buy |
| Thousandth Night |
2013 |
Buy |
| Slow Bullets |
2015 |
Buy |
| Detonation Boulevard |
2023 |
Buy |
| The Dagger in Vichy |
2025 |
Buy |
Short Story Collections#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Zima Blue and Other Stories |
2006 |
Buy |
| Deep Navigation |
2010 |
Buy |
| Beyond the Aquila Rift |
2016 |
Buy |
| Belladonna Nights and Other Stories |
2021 |
Buy |
| The Revelation Space Collection Volume 1 |
2025 |
Buy |
Standalone Novels#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Century Rain |
2004 |
Buy |
| Pushing Ice |
2005 |
Buy |
| House of Suns |
2008 |
Buy |
| Terminal World |
2010 |
Buy |
| Permafrost |
2019 |
Buy |
| Eversion |
2022 |
Buy |
| Halcyon Years |
2026 |
Buy |
The Medusa Chronicles#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Medusa Chronicles |
2016 |
Buy |
Alastair Reynolds worked as an astrophysicist for the European Space Agency before becoming a full-time writer, and that scientific background shows in his fiction. His debut novel, Revelation Space (2000), established a far-future universe spanning centuries of human expansion across the galaxy, threatened by alien machine intelligences. The Revelation Space series grew to include Chasm City, Redemption Ark, Absolution Gap, and the 2021 return to the setting with Inhibitor Phase.
Outside Revelation Space, Reynolds has written several well-regarded standalone novels. House of Suns (2008) follows a group of clones exploring the Milky Way over millions of years. Pushing Ice (2005) begins with a crew chasing a departing moon of Saturn and ends somewhere far stranger. The Revenger trilogy (2016-2020) takes a more accessible, adventure-oriented approach to far-future treasure hunting in a dying solar system.
Reynolds has also written extensively for the Doctor Who franchise, contributed to dozens of science fiction anthologies, and published numerous novellas and short story collections. His story “Zima Blue” was adapted for the Netflix series Love, Death & Robots. He continues to publish both novels and shorter works at a steady pace.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many books has Alastair Reynolds written?
Alastair Reynolds has written 116 books across eleven series.
What was Alastair Reynolds's first book?
Alastair Reynolds’s first book is The Curse of Peladon, published in 1975.
What is Alastair Reynolds best known for?
Alastair Reynolds is best known for his Revelation Space series, a hard science fiction space opera set in a far future where humanity has colonized much of the galaxy but faces existential threats from ancient machine intelligences called Inhibitors.