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  1. Science fiction now and tomorrow

    Novelists Alastair Reynolds, Lauren Beukes, Michael Moorcock and Jeff Noon talk about the state of SF.

    In this week’s new year books podcast, we look to the future. Science fiction has never been bigger, and publishers are falling over themselves to sign the next Terry Pratchett or Neil Gaiman. We talk to some of the genre’s biggest names about the state of SF in 2012, and where they think the genre is heading.

    Lauren Beukes, author of hard-boiled SF thriller Zoo City, tells us about winning the 2011 Arthur C Clarke award and about South African science fiction. We talk to Michael Moorcock, who helped define science fiction back in the 1960s with his ground-breaking literary magazine New Worlds. And we also hear from hard SF author Alastair Reynolds and speculative fiction author Jeff Noon about their new projects, how they feel about being classed within the same genre, and writing on Twitter.

    Reading List

    • Zoo City by Lauren Beukes
    • Doctor Who: The Coming of the Terraphiles by Michael Moorcock
    • Blue Remembered Earth by Alastair Reynolds
    • Vurt by Jeff Noon

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audio/2012/jan/06/books-podcast-science-fiction-now-tomorrow

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  2. Science Fiction Book Review Podcast #104: Alastair Reynolds — House of Suns

    Luke reviews House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds.

    Luke blogs at: http://www.lukeburrage.com/blog

    Follow Luke on twitter: http://twitter.com/lukeburrage

    Luke writes his own novels, “Minding Tomorrow”, “Combat”, and “The Monster Story Conference”, so download them for free at: http://www.lukeburrage.com/fiction.html

    Check out listener recommended books: http://www.goodreads.com/lukeburrage

    From http://www.sfbrp.com/archives/182

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  3. Space elevators, black holes and time travel

    The science of space, with Dr Alastair Reynolds. Plus: how does broadband go faster?; why can’t nuclear waste be shot in to the Sun?; and what happens when black holes merge?

    From http://www.abc.net.au/science/drkarl/scienceontriplej/

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  4. Alastair Reynolds interview

    An interview with Alastair Reynolds, author of Revelation Space, Redemption Ark, Absolution Gap and more.

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  5. Scales by Alastair Reynolds

    Fresh from signing a £1m deal with Gollancz, the science fiction author Alastair Reynolds has penned a story for the Guardian which follows a new recruit sent out to battle in an interstellar war.

    Nineteen years after his first short story appeared, and nine years after the first of his eight novels was published, Scales is Reynolds’ first foray into militaristic SF. In it, he explores the transformations war imposes on soldiers as his hero Nico’s mission evolves into something stranger than he could have possibly imagined.

    Reynolds is best-known for his mastery of space opera – the SF sub-genre in which the stakes are high and the aliens deadly – but, after 16 years working for the European Space Agency, he brings a scientist’s rigour to the genre’s high drama.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audio/2009/jun/19/alastair-reynolds-scales-short-story

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  6. The Sledgemaker’s Daughter by Alastair Reynolds

    The setting is the River Tyne in the North East of England, a few centuries hence, when many years of cold weather is gradually being replaced by a warmer weather. This is bad for the sledge-maker, as we follow his young daughter as she makes a long journey on foot along the river to deliver two hogs heads to an old woman reputed to be a witch.

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