Pushing Ice

Very long time space colonization caught in time paradoxes, alien artifacts, and a literally endless battle for dominance between different fractions. A bit too much character focus that escalates toward drivel I wonder how this could have happened to Reynolds, because he usually tends to fully focu......more

I got a whiptimelash just from reading it. Vertigo-inducing experience of super-relativistic speeds and time dilation. Elusive entities, gristleships, alien structures encompassing dozens of galaxies - quirky! Now, who in their sane minds would think to trust anything to a pack of aliens calling them......more

Alastair Reynolds is like a sci-fi triple threat, big “SFnal ideas”, unpredictable plot, and well developed characters, all wrapped up in very readable narrative. After reading six books by him I now feel like I can always come back to him a “reliable author” for a good reading experience. One of th......more

Review - Retcon OK. Here’s the thing. In my initial review (quite a while ago) I ranted a bit about one or two things that bothered me about Pushing Ice. Lately though, I find that the novel keeps haunting me. A lot. Since this is exceptional, I went back and had a quick glance at some of the det......more

Dear Alastair Reynolds, Why do I come back to your books? That's the question I kept asking myself, when reading this book. This is not to say that all of your books are absolute drivel, like this one is. And, it's true, Pushing Ice is not without some interesting ideas and speculation... that could h......more