27-478: Chronopolis may refer to: Chronopolis , a 1974 novel by Barrington J. Bayley , also known as The Fall of Chronopolis "Chronopolis" (short story) , a 1960 short story by J. G. Ballard, first published in New Worlds , June 1960 Chronopolis and Other Stories , a 1971 collection of stories by J. G. Ballard, also published as Chronopolis Chronopolis (film) ,
54-747: A 1982 animated feature film by Piotr Kamler Chronopolis (Marvel Comics) , a fictional city in the Marvel Comics universe, ruled by Kang the Conqueror Chronopolis, a fictional city in the Chrono Cross universe Chronopolis, a fictional city in the DC Comics universe, home to a version of Chronos Chronopolis, a grid-based digital preservation environment based at the San Diego Supercomputer Center Topics referred to by
81-541: A 2002 release date and a page count of 288. The book still makes appearances in lists of his works, including the bibliography in the ebooks of Bayley's works released by the Gollancz SF Gateway . His literary estate is managed by Michael Moorcock. Bayley used the pseudonyms S. Barrington Bayley, P.F Woods, J. Barrington Bayley, Alan Aumbry, Michael Barrington, Simon Barclay, and John Diamond. Alastair Reynolds Alastair Preston Reynolds (born 13 March 1966)
108-481: A graduate student, in 1989–1991; they appeared in 1990–1992, his first sale being to Interzone . In 1991 Reynolds graduated and moved from Scotland to the Netherlands to work at ESA. He then started spending much of his writing time on a first novel, which eventually turned into Revelation Space , while the few short stories he submitted from 1991–1995 were rejected. This ended in 1995 when his story "Byrd Land Six"
135-405: A span of several centuries, spanning approximately AD 2205 to 40 000, although the novels are all set in a 300-year period spanning from 2427 to 2727. In this universe, extraterrestrial sentience exists but is elusive, and interstellar travel is primarily undertaken by a class of vessel called a lighthugger which only approaches the speed of light ( faster than light travel is possible, but it
162-477: Is a "personal favorite", he has "sworn there will never be a sequel". Pushing Ice is also a standalone story, with characters from much less distant in the future than in any of his other novels, set into a framework storyline that extends much further into the future of humanity than any of his previous novels. It contains an alternative interpretation of the Fermi paradox : intelligent sentient life in this universe
189-601: Is a Welsh science fiction author . He specialises in hard science fiction and space opera . Reynolds was born in Wales and spent his early years in Cornwall before moving back to Wales, and later attended Newcastle University , where he studied physics and astronomy . He subsequently earned a PhD in astrophysics from the University of St Andrews . Reynolds wrote his first four published science fiction short stories while still
216-608: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Barrington J. Bayley Barrington J. Bayley (9 April 1937 – 14 October 2008) was an English science fiction writer. Bayley was born in Birmingham , England, and educated in Newport, Shropshire . He worked a number of jobs before joining the Royal Air Force during 1955; his first published story, "Combat's End", had been printed
243-515: Is extremely scarce. Reynolds states that he is "firmly intending" to return to the Pushing Ice setting to write a sequel. The Prefect marked a return to the Revelation Space universe. Like Chasm City , it is a stand-alone novel within that setting. It is set prior to any of the other Revelation Space novels, though still 200 years after the original human settlement is established on
270-515: Is much closer to the perspective of our real world (in fact he is from a version of our past), serving as a proxy for the reader in confronting the unfamiliarity of the advanced science fiction aspects and in having a much more linear storytelling process. Reynolds's previous protagonists started out fully absorbed in the exoticisms of the future setting and his previous Revelation Space works have several interlinked story threads, not necessarily contemporaneous. According to Reynolds, while Century Rain
297-457: Is so dangerous that no race uses it). Fermi's paradox is explained as resulting from the activities of an inorganic alien race referred to by its victims as the Inhibitors, which exterminates sentient races if they proceed above a certain level of technology. The tetralogy consisting of Revelation Space , Redemption Ark , Absolution Gap , and Inhibitor Phase deals with humanity coming to
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#1732855505143324-455: The Revelation Space universe is now called The Prefect Dreyfus Emergencies . Reynolds states that he has "tentative plans for three more Dreyfus titles, with an arc that would eventually take him beyond Yellowstone, and then back again." House of Suns is a standalone novel set in the same universe as his novella "Thousandth Night" from the One Million A.D. anthology. It was released in
351-407: The Revelation Space universe after the first novel published in it, although it was originally developed in short stories for several years before the first novel. Although most characters appear in more than one novel, the works set within this future timeline rarely have the same protagonists twice. Often the protagonists from one work belong to a group that is regarded with suspicion or enmity by
378-568: The Sidewise Award for Alternate History for his short story "The Fixation". His novella Troika made the shortlist for the 2011 Hugo Awards . His Novel Revenger received the 2017 Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book . On 10 March 2019 Alastair Reynolds announced that his short stories "Zima Blue" and "Beyond the Aquila Rift" had been adapted as part of Netflix's animated anthology Love, Death & Robots . These stories are
405-583: The 2001 British Science Fiction Award for Best Novel. His short story "Weather" won the Japanese National Science Fiction Convention's Seiun Award for Best Translated Short Fiction. His novels Absolution Gap and The Prefect have also been nominated for previous BSFA awards. Reynolds has been nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award three times, for his novels Revelation Space , Pushing Ice and House of Suns . In 2010, he won
432-739: The Steel Breeze (2014), and Poseidon's Wake (2015). The novels comprise a hard science fiction trilogy dealing with the expansion of the human species into the solar system and beyond, and the emergence of Africa as a spacefaring, technological super-state. His Doctor Who novel Harvest of Time was published in June 2013. His forthcoming work includes "Banish", which will be appearing in Multiverses by Preston Grassmann (ed.) for Titan Publishing. Reynolds's fiction has received three awards and several other nominations. His second novel Chasm City won
459-657: The UK on 17 April 2008 and in the US on 2 June 2009. Reynolds described it as "Six million years in the future, starfaring clones, tensions between human and robot metacivilisations, King Crimson jokes." As with Pushing Ice , Reynolds also states that he is "firmly intending" to return to the House of Suns setting to write a sequel. Terminal World , published in March 2010 was described by Reynolds as "a kind of steampunk -tinged planetary romance, set in
486-399: The attention of the Inhibitors and the resultant war between them. Century Rain takes place in a future universe independent of the Revelation Space universe and has different rules, such as faster-than-light travel being possible through a system of portals similar to wormholes . Century Rain also departs substantially from Reynolds's previous works, both in having a protagonist who
513-427: The distant future". As with Century Rain , Reynolds has said that he does not plan any further work in the universe of Terminal World . In June 2009 Reynolds signed a new deal, worth £1 million, with his British publishers for ten books to be published over the next ten years. Between 2012 and 2015 Reynolds released three novels set in a new universe called Poseidon's Children : Blue Remembered Earth (2012), On
540-540: The likes of M. John Harrison , William S. Burroughs , Brian Stableford , Bruce Sterling , Iain Banks and Alastair Reynolds . Bayley, who came to live at Donnington, Telford , died of complications from bowel cancer on 14 October 2008. During 2001, he had written an outline for a sequel to Eye of Terror , provisionally titled An Age of Adventure . The novel was unreleased at the time of his death but rumours and listings of copies have circulated, including claims of
567-418: The partnership". He, Moorcock and J.G.Ballard met regularly and their discussions and theories led to the development of science fiction's New Wave . His short stories featured regularly in New Worlds and then later in various New Worlds paperback anthologies. His first book, The Star Virus , was followed by more than a dozen other novels; his downbeat, gloomy themes have been cited as influential on
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#1732855505143594-514: The planet Yellowstone in the Epsilon Eridani system. It was published in the United Kingdom on 2 April 2007. Since its publication, the title of The Prefect has been changed to Aurora Rising to more align with the name of the sequel, Elysium Fire , which was published in 2018, marking the first novel length return to the Revelation Space universe since 2007. This sub-series within
621-561: The protagonists of another work. While a great deal of science fiction reflects either very optimistic or dystopian visions of the human future, Reynolds's future worlds are notable in that human societies have not departed to either positive or negative extremes, but instead are similar to those of today in terms of moral ambiguity and a mixture of cruelty and decency, corruption and opportunity, despite their technology being dramatically advanced. The Revelation Space series includes eight novels, seven novellas, and six short stories set over
648-419: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Chronopolis . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chronopolis&oldid=1007029888 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
675-499: The science in his books to what he personally believes will be possible, and he does not believe faster-than-light travel will ever be possible, but that he adopts science he believes will be impossible when it is necessary for the story. Most of Reynolds's novels contain multiple storylines that originally appear to be completely unrelated, but merge later in the story. Eight of his novels and several of his short stories take place within one consistent future universe, usually now called
702-533: The year before in Vargo Statten Magazine . During the late 1950s, Bayley became friends and a frequent collaborator with Michael Moorcock on features, comics and short stories, chiefly for Fleetway Publications where he was also a regular writer of text stories, such as " The Astounding Jason Hyde " (reprinted by Rebellion Developments in 2022). He later wrote sf stories for New Worlds magazine and Moorcock, who described himself as "the dumb one in
729-472: Was published, which he says marked the beginning of a more serious phase of writing. As of 2011 he has published over forty shorter works and nine novels . His works are hard science fiction, typically in the sub-genres of space opera and noir , and reflect his professional expertise with physics and astronomy, included by extrapolating future technologies in terms that are consistent, for the most part, with current science. Reynolds has said he prefers to keep
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