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Zima Blue and Other Stories | 
 enlarge | Author: Alastair Reynolds
Publisher: Night Shade Books
Category: Book
Buy New: £19.10
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 64950
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 300
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 6 x 0.9
ISBN: 1597800791
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9781597800792
ASIN: 1597800791
Publication Date: May 15, 2007
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 Reynolds at his best December 12, 2007
Fortunately, I found this book in a Barnes and Noble in Nashville, and 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 really big and important themes and ideas. This is what his work so engaging, and readable. This collection is representative, and well worth picking up.
 Full of strange August 1, 2007
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Inventiveness and humour run throughout this book. One important and enduring question that is explores through these and other stories: what happens when you mess with people? And I mean really, really mess with people. In the brilliant 'Understanding Space and Time' a man believes he is the last human in the universe and sets off on a question to solve the biggest of all riddles and 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, and life's multiple loyalties, from the comfort of a Cardiff laboratory. The most human and 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.
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