To see what your friends thought of this book, INDIVIDUAL STORY THOUGHTS BELOW (so you can skip my review if you want), "Zima Blue And Other Stories" is a nice collection of stories, Beyond the Aquila Rift (5.0) - Reynolds at his best. Great Wall of Mars – (2205, published 2000) – short story, published in Galactic North 2. Eric Brown. 🎶@soma_lunacy X @xperimentsmusic - Zima Blue🎶 🎬 Visual : "raison d'être"(eve mv) 🎞️ Edit : @paletteism 💜💜💜 . Using the same book in two different episodes, with two different styles of animation to present how the story should be presented. psycho-sexual ramblings, his stories used to stand out like jewels from the era of golden SF, relying on hard science to a greater extent. 'Hideaway', first published in Interzone, July 2000. I am far too lazy to write a review for every story (and uh, I may have fast forwarded through some of the deeper cuts/pre-2000s stories), so I'm going to focus on the reason I bought it-- the Merlin trilogy. My successful encounter with Alastair Reynold's short fiction in. Zima blue and other stories. Thanks for the rec , The three Merlin stories *do* feel indeed like a novel – or a novella – and they are definitely the best of the collection. This list includes all books, novellas, and short stories. I started off publishing short stories in the British SF magazine Interzone in the early 90s, then eventually branched into novels. I'd been mulling over my definition of art for a while and Zima Blue gave me some delicious food for thought. 1. As a rule I generally pick up "collections of best short stories" books. Alastair Reynolds. I've read several Alastair Reynolds books. The stories in this collection are all set outside his Revelation Space universe. , I don’t really like short stories – the only ones I’ve really enjoyed were Mark Lawrence’s Road Brothers collection – because this was about a bunch of characters that all tie into the main book, and Monstrous Little Voices – which were different stories based on different Shakespeare plays – and they all linked – which was great. Collection Title: Zima Blue and Other Stories • (2006) • collection by Alastair Reynolds Contents (view Concise Listing) viii • A Note on the UK Edition (Zima Blue and Other Stories) • (2009) • essay by Alastair Reynolds; 1 • Introduction (Zima Blue and Other Stories) • (2006) • essay by Paul J. McAuley [as by Paul McAuley] ~"Understanding Space & Time” ― Alastair Reynolds, Zima Blue and Other Stories . Oddly my impression was that all these were earlier short stories – written in the 90s or before – but on checking the afterword to each I see that quite a few of them were written post 2000 (or appeared then). Perhaps it takes a machine intelligence to appreciate that. This was a mixed bag for me. ‘Zima Blue and Other Stories’ from Nightshade Books collects a number of Reynolds’ other stories. Published by Night Shade Books, New York (2006) ISBN 10: 1597800589 ISBN 13: 9781597800587 I love short stories. Good selection of stories from Reynolds. (I particularly liked the first and last stories in the book, featuring Carrie Clay, 700-year-old investigative journalist. To get the most out of the Revelation Space series, here is the recommended reading order. It looks like Mr. Reynolds got all his "odds and ends" and put into a single book, with good results. The collection presently being reviewed didn’t have such a thematic link among them, but can be broadly described as under: I'll admit that I have a hard time liking short stories. Start by marking “Zima Blue and Other Stories” as Want to Read: Error rating book. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published “Zima Blue” is the poignant story of an artist with something to prove. Most of the short fiction in that universe can be found in the collections. As it happens with every collection I’ve read so far, not all stories were to my liking, but I can honestly say that only a couple did not manage to hold my complete attention, while the others ranged from the very interesting to the deeply engrossing. And don’t worry about messy posts: virtual keyboards are a *nightmare*!!! 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