'A swashbuckling thriller - Pirates of the Caribbean meets Firefly - that nevertheless combines
the author's trademark hard SF with effective coming-of-age characterisation' GUARDIAN 'A
blindingly clever imagining of our solar system in the far flung future' SUN Returning to
the universe of Revenger award-winning author Alastair Reynolds delivers another thrilling
tale set among the stars. Two sisters ran away from home to join the crew of a spaceship.
They took on pirates faced down monsters and survived massacres . . . and now they're in
charge. Captaining a fearsome ship of their own adventures are theirs for the taking - and
there's hoards to loot and treasures to find in the darkest reaches of space. But the rules are
also more relaxed out on the fringes as they're about to discover . . . 'A rollicking
adventure yarn with action abduction fights properly scary hazards very grisly torture and
even ghosts of a sort' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'By far the most enjoyable book Reynolds has ever
written' SFX 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 span
here is mind-boggling cosmos-spanning concepts a breath-taking journey' Good Book Guide on
Chasm City '[A] wonderfully entertaining puzzle wrapped inside an adventure story' The
Guardian on Eversion 'A fabulous and satisfying novel' SF Crowsnest on Revenger 'An
excellent adventure that's sure to keep readers on their toes' Publishers Weekly on Revenger
'A fun character focused bottle mystery that shifts settings like a chameleon walking across a
rainbow carpet' The Quill to Live on Eversion 'Entertaining and thought-provoking' Locus on
Revelation Space 'Pirates in space full of peril and high-jinks . . . This is a novel that's
elegantly plotted full of surprises and as first time round rip-roaring fun' SFX on Revenger
'Reynolds is one of the modern masters of science fiction' Starburst 'This is a story to
break hearts and make you turn pages. It's great stuff pick it up you'll want to know what
happens next' SF&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
cost' Locus on Revenger 'Reynolds is a master singer of the Space Opera' The Times
