Blue Remembered Earth

BLUE REMEMBERED EARTH is the first volume in a monumental trilogy tracing the Akinya family across more than ten thousand years of future history ... out beyond the solar system, into interstellar space and the dawn of galactic society.

One hundred and fifty years from now, in a world where Africa is the dominant technological and economic power, and where crime, war, disease and poverty have been banished to history, Geoffrey Akinya wants only one thing: to be left in peace, so that he can continue his studies into the elephants of the Amboseli basin.

But Geoffreys family, the vast Akinya business empire, has other plans. After the death of Eunice, Geoffreys grandmother, erstwhile space explorer and entrepreneur, something awkward has come to light on the Moon, and Geoffrey is tasked - well, blackmailed, really - to go up there and make sure the familys name stays suitably unblemished. But little does Geoffrey realise - or anyone else in the family, for that matter - what hes about to unravel.

Eunices ashes have already have been scattered in sight of Kilimanjaro. But the secrets she died with are about to come back out into the open, and they could change everything.

Or shatter this near-utopia into shards . . .

Praise for Alastair Reynolds:

An adroit and fast-paced blend of space opera and police procedural, original and exciting George R. R. Martin on Aurora Rising

The most enjoyable book Reynolds has ever writtenSFX on Revenger

The span here is mind-boggling, cosmos-spanning concepts, a breath-taking journeyGood Book Guide on Chasm City

[A] wonderfully entertaining puzzle wrapped inside an adventure storyThe Guardian on Eversion

A fabulous and satisfying novelSF Crowsnest on Revenger

An excellent adventure thats sure to keep readers on their toesPublishers Weekly on Revenger

A fun, character focused bottle mystery that shifts settings like a chameleon walking across a rainbow carpetThe Quill to Live on Eversion

Entertaining and thought-provokingLocus on Revelation Space

Pirates in space, full of peril and high-jinks . . . This is a novel thats elegantly plotted, full of surprises and, as first time round, rip-roaring funSFX on Revenger

Reynolds is one of the modern masters of science fictionStarburst

This is a story to break hearts and make you turn pages. Its great stuff; pick it up, youll want to know what happens nextSF&F Reviews on Century Rain

Much of the fun of these books comes from the construction of a far, far-future space-opera . . . the mapping of Age of Sail tropes onto space travel is just the start . . . Nevertheless, at the centre of this baroque masquerade party resides a sober consideration of what it might mean to go off adventuring, what it might costLocus on Revenger

Reynolds is a master singer of the Space OperaThe Times