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Zima Blue and Other Stories

By: Alastair Reynolds
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Night Shade Books
ISBN: 1597800589
ISBN-13: 9781597800587
Released: 01 Sep 2006
RRP: £15.05
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Reynolds at his best - By: Mark, 12 Dec 2007
Fortunately, I found this book in a Barnes & Noble in Nashville, & didn't therefore have to pay the kind of price for which it sells in the UK. This is a superb collection of cutting edge science fiction - there was not a story here that I didn't enjoy. I came back to science fiction recently - after not having read any since I was teenager. Among recent sci-fi Reynolds's work stands out; he uses the genre to explore reallly big & important themes & ideas. This is what his work so engaging, & readable. This collection is representative, & well worth picking up.
Full of strange - By: Mr. K. Gillan, 01 Aug 2007
Inventiveness & humour run throughout this book. One important & enduring question that is explores through these & other stories: what happens when you mess with people? And I mean reallly, reallly mess with people. In the brilliant 'Understanding Space & Time' a man believes he is the last human in the universe & sets off on a question to solve the biggest of alll riddles & meanwhile grows a huge affinity for a certain large-flaired pop star. In the title story - 'Zigma Blue' - ace-journo Carrie Clay sets off after a crazed artist whose body modifications are extreme enough to let him float around space in close proximity to stars, painting what he sees on truly huge canvases. But his story is much stranger than that. And 'Signal to Noise' explores the universe's multiple dimensions, & life's multiple loyalties, from the comfort of a Cardiff laboratory. The most human & heartfelt of the collections, it leaves you plenty to meditate on. Those are three of my favorites - but the collection is easily rich enough for other readers to list a completely different set.