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Belladonna Nights and Other Stories Book Review

“Belladonna Nights and Other Stories ” is a good book that you can read online or download to read it later. Before starting the reading or downloading, here is the summary of the book that you can read. Alastair Reynolds has continued to publish short fiction throughout the thirty-odd years of his professional career. This fourth collection gathers material mostly written by the former space scientist in the last decade, even as a number of stories—such as the title piece, set in the universe of House of Suns—revisit earlier environments. The scope of settings is wide, ranging from the contemporaneous Earth to the near future and out to the furthest realms of the galaxy, and taking in such diverse topics as the perils of immortality, cybernetic encounters in the Wild West, uncanny skateboard parks and the flocking behaviour of birds. There is horror here, but also hope—and not a little black humour.

Brief Summary Belladonna Nights and Other Stories by Alastair Reynolds

Esteemed author Alastair Reynolds is known primary for his many science-fiction novels. It is interesting to read his collection of 16 short stories first published over the period 2011-21. In my opinion a SF short story is a difficult thing to master well. Creating the story idea, introducing a SF “hook” in a limited space and bring it to a satisfying conclusion is a daunting task. Perhaps this is the reason I found the longer stories in this collection that make use of ideas and locals developed in his novels more satisfying. Specifically I am referring to the following stories: