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Galactic North

By: Alastair Reynolds
Narrated by: John Lee
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 Centuries from now, the basic right to expand human intelligence beyond its natural limits has become a war-worthy cause for the Demarchists and Conjoiners. Only vast lighthugger starships bind these squabbling colonies together, manned by the panicky and paranoid Ultras. And the hyperpigs just try to keep their heads down.

The rich get richer. And everyone tries not to think about the worrying number of extinct alien civilizations turning up on the outer reaches of settled space...because who's to say that humanity won't be next?

Set in the Revelation Space universe, this is the first short story collection by the author who has been called "one of SF's best and most ambitious novelists". The eight stories included in Galactic North are "Great Wall of Mars", "Glacial", "A Spy in Europa", "Weather", "Dilation Sleep", "Grafenwalder's Bestiary", "Nightingale", and "Galactic North".

©2008 Alastair Reynolds (P)2009 Tantor Media Anthologies & Short Stories Fiction Science Fiction Space Opera

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"Reynolds is one of sci-fi's brightest stars. [He] writes Big Science Fiction. Enormous spaceships travel though space that feels galactic in scale, a feat of depiction that is still noteworthy in the genre." ( The Guardian, London)
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I really loved a lot of the other books set in this universe and Alistair Reynolds is a great writer. however this book was very disjointed and I had neither a place nor a person as the main protagonist and as a result was very confusing. I found myself really listening to chapters a lot and did not feel like they joined. the performance is still great and the writing is still good just not very connected or easy to follow.

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