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Alastair Reynolds

Shadow Captain


2019. 432 S. 232 mm
Verlag/Jahr: ORION PUBLISHING GROUP; GOLLANCZ 2019
ISBN: 0-575-09064-2 (0575090642)
Neue ISBN: 978-0-575-09064-4 (9780575090644)

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Returning to the universe of Revenger, award-winning author Alastair Reynolds delivers another thrilling tale set among the stars.
´A swashbuckling thriller - Pirates of the Caribbean meets Firefly - that nevertheless combines the author´s trademark hard SF with effective, coming-of-age characterisation´ GUARDIAN

´A blindingly clever imagining of our solar system in the far flung future´ SUN

Returning to the universe of Revenger, award-winning author Alastair Reynolds delivers another thrilling tale set among the stars.

Two sisters ran away from home to join the crew of a spaceship. They took on pirates, faced down monsters and survived massacres . . . and now they´re in charge. Captaining a fearsome ship of their own, adventures are theirs for the taking - and there´s hoards to loot and treasures to find in the darkest reaches of space. But the rules are also more relaxed out on the fringes, as they´re about to discover . . .

´A rollicking adventure yarn with action, abduction, fights, properly scary hazards, very grisly torture and even ghosts of a sort´ DAILY TELEGRAPH

´By far the most enjoyable book Reynolds has ever written´ SFX
Pirates in space, full of peril and high-jinks... This is a novel that´s elegantly plotted, full of surprises and, as first time round, rip-roaring fun. SFX MAGAZINE
Reynolds, Alastair

Alastair Reynolds was born in Barry, South Wales, in 1966. He studied at Newcastle and St Andrews Universities and has a Ph.D. in astronomy. He stopped working as an astrophysicist for the European Space Agency to become a full-time writer. REVELATION SPACE and PUSHING ICE were shortlisted for the ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD; REVELATION SPACE, ABSOLUTION GAP, DIAMOND DOGS and CENTURY RAIN were shortlisted for the BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION AWARD and CHASM CITY won the BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION AWARD.

You can learn more by visiting www.alastairreynolds.com, or by following @AquilaRift on twitter.