Century Rain

Part SF thriller, part interstellar adventure, part noir crime, CENTURY RAIN is as astonishing bestseller from Alastair Reynolds

Three hundred years in the future, Verity Auger is a specialist in the archaeological exploration of Earth, rendered uninhabitable after the technological catastrophe known as the Nanocaust. After a field-trip goes badly wrong, Verity is forced to redeem herself by participating in a dangerous mission, for which her expertise in invaluable.

Using a back door into an unstable alien transit system, Augers faction has discovered something astonishing at the far end of a wormhole: mid twentieth-century Earth, preserved like a fly in amber. Is it a window into the past, a simulation, or something else entirely?

CENTURY RAIN is a jaw-droppingly good SF thriller, packed with pace, adventure, brilliant storytelling and with twists that will keep you guessing to the end.

Praise for Alastair Reynolds:

The span here is mind-boggling, cosmos-spanning concepts, a breath-taking journeyGood Book Guide on Chasm City

[A] wonderfully entertaining puzzle wrapped inside an adventure storyThe Guardian on Eversion

A fabulous and satisfying novelSF Crowsnest on Revenger

An excellent adventure thats sure to keep readers on their toesPublishers Weekly on Revenger

A fun, character focused bottle mystery that shifts settings like a chameleon walking across a rainbow carpetThe Quill to Live on Eversion

Entertaining and thought-provokingLocus on Revelation Space

Pirates in space, full of peril and high-jinks . . . This is a novel thats elegantly plotted, full of surprises and, as first time round, rip-roaring funSFX on Revenger

Reynolds is one of the modern masters of science fictionStarburst

This is a story to break hearts and make you turn pages. Its great stuff; pick it up, youll want to know what happens nextSF&F Reviews on Century Rain

Much of the fun of these books comes from the construction of a far, far-future space-opera . . . the mapping of Age of Sail tropes onto space travel is just the start . . . Nevertheless, at the centre of this baroque masquerade party resides a sober consideration of what it might mean to go off adventuring, what it might costLocus on Revenger

Reynolds is a master singer of the Space OperaThe Times