Permafrost, by Alastair Reynolds

[Single]

★★★☆☆ Average

(Post-Apocalypse Time Travel) A world dying from ecological catastrophe sends four people back in time to try to find seeds that can grow in the new environment, but someone is trying to stop them. (36,888 words; Time: 2h:02m)

Different Seas, by Alastair Reynolds

[Anthology]

★★★★★ Nice action, powerfully emotional

(SF Action) Lilith is sole crew member on a sail-by-wire clipper ship off the coast of Chile when a big solar storm knocks out the system that controls her rudder. She ends up getting help from an unlikely source. (5,230 words; Time: 17m)

Death's Door, by Alastair Reynolds

[Anthology]

★★★☆☆ Average

(Utopia) Sakura has lived more thousands of years than he can count, and now he’s ready to make an end. His friends convince him to give them six months to change his mind. (8,645 words; Time: 28m)

Holdfast, by Alastair Reynolds

[Anthology]

★★★★☆ Clever and Touching

(Military SF) Following a battle in an endless interstellar war, the sole survivors on each side face off deep in the atmosphere of a superjovian planet. (6,208 words; Time: 20m)

Recommended By: GDozois+1 NClarke+2

Although this was originally published in the UK in 2017, the first US Publication was in March 2018, so it should be eligible for the 2019 Hugo Awards at the 2019 WorldCon, to be held in Dublin.

Open and Shut, by Alastair Reynolds

[Gollancz]

★★★☆☆ Average

(SF Adventure; Prefect Dreyfus) Dreyfus explains why the Chertoff “lockdown” has affected him so much. He put it in place 20 years ago, he inspected it three weeks ago, and he hasn’t been the same since. (4,017 words; Time: 13m)

Although this is set in Reynold's "Revelation Space" universe, no familiarity with those stories is required at all.

Night Passage, by Alastair Reynolds

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(SF Adventure) Captain Bernsdottir wakes from hibernation with her ship stalled next to a vast alien artifact and a mutiny in progress. (14,142 words; Time: 47m)

Rating: ★★★★☆ Great story with lots of tension and twists.

Recommended By: GDozois:4 RHorton:5

The Iron Tactician, by Alastair Reynolds

[Single]

★★★☆☆ Average

(Military SF) Merlin's starship is one of the best, but it needs repairs, and a derelict starship may have what he needs. Or he can try a binary system where an interplanetary war has raged for centuries. (29,063 words; Time: 1h:36m)

Recommended By: 🏆Locus+2 📙GDozois+2 📙NClarke+2 👍JStrahan+2 👍RHorton.r+2 (Q&A)

Sixteen Questions for Kamala Chatterjee, by Alastair Reynolds

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(Far-Future SF) Kamala discovered an alien artifact inside the sun, and she spent her life finding a way to reach it. (4,314 words; Time: 14m)

Rating: ★★☆☆☆ Not Recommended

Recommended By: GDozois:5

Read an interview with the author about this story.

A Murmuration, by Alastair Reynolds

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(Hard SF) Scientist studying flock behavior of starlings gets astonishing results but struggles to get her paper accepted. (5,100 words; Time: 17m)

Rating: ★★★★★ Award-Worthy

Recommended By: SFRevu:4 NClarke JStrahan LTilton

Slow Bullets, by Alastair Reynolds

[Single]

★★★☆☆ Average

(SF) Scur, a soldier in an interstellar war, wakes up from hibernation on a prison ship. The ship is failing, they don't know where they are, and the prisoners are trying to kill each other. (41,800 words; Time: 2h:19m)

Recommended By: 🏆Hugo+2 🏆Locus+3 👍NClarke.hm+1 (Q&A)

It's being marketed as a novella, so we're listing it as such, even though our length estimate puts it slightly over.