BEYOND THE AQUILA RIFT: The Best of Alastair Reynolds.

First edition, first printing. Limited edition. Signed by the author. Publisher's original brown faux 'leather' with metallic pink titles to the spine, in the unique to this edition author illustrated dustwrapper. Folding colour illustration by Dominic Harman. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the boards and gilt bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's marks. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper that is without fading, loss or tears. Housed in the dark blue leather effect slipcase with titles in metallic pink and white to the backstrip.

Issued in a limited edition of 350 numbered copies of which this example is numbered 41 and signed by Alastair Reynolds in black ink on the limitation page. An impressive 250,000 word career retrospective selecting the very best stories from the 'Revelation Space' universe alongside thrilling hard science fiction stories such as the Hugo Award nominated 'Troika'. Other stories include 'Weather'; 'Beyond the Aquila Rift'; 'Minla's Flowers'; 'Zima Blue'; 'Fury'; 'The Star Surgeon's Apprentice'; 'The Sledge-Maker's Daughter'; 'Diamond Dogs'; 'Thousandth Night'; 'Sleepover'; 'Vainglory'; 'Trauma Pod'; 'The Last Log of the Lachrymosa'; 'The Water Thief'; 'The Old Man and the Martian Sea'; 'In Babelsberg'; 'Story Notes'.