Galactic North

by Alastair Reynolds

Book 2 in the Revelation Space series (1999)

Publisher: Gollancz

With eight short stories and novellas- including three original to this collection- Galactic North imparts the centuries-spanning events that have produced the dark and turbulent world of Revelation Space.

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?

A collection of eight short stories and novellas–including three never before seen–in the dark and turbulent world of Alastair Reynolds’ Revelation Space universe.

Includes:

1• Great Wall of Mars • [Revelation Space] • (2000) • novelette by Alastair Reynolds
47 • Glacial • [Revelation Space] • (2001) • novella by Alastair Reynolds
95 • A Spy in Europa • [Revelation Space] • (1997) • shortstory by Alastair Reynolds
117 • Weather • [Revelation Space] • novella by Alastair Reynolds
170 • Dilation Sleep • [Revelation Space] • (1990) • shortstory by Alastair Reynolds
186 • Grafenwelder’s Bestiary • [Revelation Space] • novelette by Alastair Reynolds
231 • Nightingale • [Revelation Space] • novella by Alastair Reynolds
299 • Galactic North • [Revelation Space] • (1999) • novelette by Alastair Reynolds
338 • Afterword (Galactic North) • essay by Alastair Reynolds