Revelation Space and Redemption Ark have been hailed as 'the best of the new breed of space opera.' Now Absolution Gap concludes Alastair Reynolds's epic science fiction trilogy.

With eight short stories and novellas---including three original to this collection---Galactic North imparts the centuries-spanning events that have produced the dark and turbulent world of Revelation Space.

Diamond Dogs The planet Golgotha—supposedly lifeless—resides in a remote star system, far from those inhabited by human colonists. It is home to an enigmatic machine-like structure called the Blood Spire, which has already brutal...