Alastair Reynolds Reading Order

44 books (1999–2024)

Start with The Ant-Men of Tibet and Other Stories, the first of 44 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	The Ant-Men of Tibet and Other Stories 1999Buy 🇺🇸
2	Space Soldiers 2001Buy 🇺🇸
3	Infinities 2002Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 15 2002Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Hard SF Renaissance 2003Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 16 2003Buy 🇺🇸
7	Constellations 2005Buy 🇺🇸
8	One Million A.D. 2005Buy 🇺🇸
9	Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2006 2006Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction 2006Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Space Opera Renaissance 2006Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection 2006Buy 🇺🇸
13	Year's Best SF 11 2006Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Best of the Best, Vol 2 2007Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection 2007Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 21 2008Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 22 2008Buy 🇺🇸
18	Federations 2009Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF 2009Buy 🇺🇸
20	Shine: An Anthology of Near-Future Optimistic Science Fiction 2010Buy 🇺🇸
21	Lightspeed: Year One 2011Buy 🇺🇸
22	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection 2011Buy 🇺🇸
23	Rock On: The Greatest Hits of Science Fiction & Fantasy 2012Buy 🇺🇸
24	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection 2012Buy 🇺🇸
25	Aliens: Recent Encounters 2013Buy 🇺🇸
26	Best New SF 26 2013Buy 🇺🇸
27	Memoryville Blues: A Postscripts Anthology 30/31 2013Buy 🇺🇸
28	Dead Man's Hand 2014Buy 🇺🇸
29	Robot Uprisings 2014Buy 🇺🇸
30	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection 2014Buy 🇺🇸
31	The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 6 2014Buy 🇺🇸
32	The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 7 2015Buy 🇺🇸
33	Bridging Infinity 2016Buy 🇺🇸
34	The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume One 2016Buy 🇺🇸
35	Infinite Stars 2017Buy 🇺🇸
36	The Best Science Fiction of the Year Volume Three 2017Buy 🇺🇸
37	The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Two 2017Buy 🇺🇸
38	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection 2017Buy 🇺🇸
39	2001: An Odyssey in Words 2018Buy 🇺🇸
40	The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 10 2018Buy 🇺🇸
41	The Year's Top Robot and AI Stories 2019Buy 🇺🇸
42	The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Five 2020Buy 🇺🇸
43	Love, Death and Robots: The Official Anthology: Volume One 2021Buy 🇺🇸
44	Best of British Science Fiction 2023 2024Buy 🇺🇸

9 books (1975–2016)

Start with The Curse of Peladon(By: Brian Hayles), the first of 9 books in the Doctor Who: Third Doctor series.

#	Title
1	The Curse of Peladon(By: Brian Hayles) 1975Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Paradise of Death(By: Barry Letts) 1993Buy 🇺🇸
3	Dancing the Code(By: Paul Leonard) 1995Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Ghosts of N-Space(By: Barry Letts) 1995Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Scales of Injustice(By: Gary Russell) 1996Buy 🇺🇸
6	Doctor Who: The Magician's Oath(By: Scott Handcock) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
7	Council of War(By: Simon Barnard) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
8	Harvest of Time 2013Buy 🇺🇸
9	Damascus(By: Jonathan Barnes) 2016Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2007–2024)

Start with Aurora Rising / The Prefect, the first of 4 books in the Inspector Dreyfus / Prefect Dreyfus Emergency series.

#	Title
1	Aurora Rising / The Prefect 2007Buy 🇺🇸
2	Elysium Fire 2018Buy 🇺🇸
3	Open and Shut 2018Buy 🇺🇸
4	Machine Vendetta 2024Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2000–2016)

Start with Merlin's Gun and read in order.

#	Title
1	Merlin's Gun 2000Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Iron Tactician 2016Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2012–2015)

Start with Blue Remembered Earth and read in order.

#	Title
1	Blue Remembered Earth 2012Buy 🇺🇸
2	On the Steel Breeze 2012Buy 🇺🇸
3	Poseidon's Wake 2015Buy 🇺🇸

8 books (2000–2021)

Start with Revelation Space, the first of 8 books in the Revelation Space series.

#	Title
1	Revelation Space 2000Buy 🇺🇸
2	Chasm City 2001Buy 🇺🇸
3	Diamond Dogs 2001Buy 🇺🇸
4	Redemption Ark 2002Buy 🇺🇸
5	Absolution Gap 2003Buy 🇺🇸
6	Turquoise Days 2003Buy 🇺🇸
7	Galactic North 2006Buy 🇺🇸
8	Inhibitor Phase 2021Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2016–2020)

Start with Revenger and read in order.

#	Title
1	Revenger 2016Buy 🇺🇸
2	Shadow Captain 2019Buy 🇺🇸
3	Bone Silence 2020Buy 🇺🇸

11 books (1997–2025)

Start with A Spy in Europa, the first of 11 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	A Spy in Europa 1997Buy 🇺🇸
2	Great Wall of Mars 2000Buy 🇺🇸
3	Weather 2006Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Six Directions of Space 2008Buy 🇺🇸
5	Zima Blue 2009Buy 🇺🇸
6	Troika 2011Buy 🇺🇸
7	Sleepover 2012Buy 🇺🇸
8	Thousandth Night 2013Buy 🇺🇸
9	Slow Bullets 2015Buy 🇺🇸
10	Detonation Boulevard 2023Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Dagger in Vichy 2025Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (2006–2025)

Start with Zima Blue and Other Stories, the first of 5 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	Zima Blue and Other Stories 2006Buy 🇺🇸
2	Deep Navigation 2010Buy 🇺🇸
3	Beyond the Aquila Rift 2016Buy 🇺🇸
4	Belladonna Nights and Other Stories 2021Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Revelation Space Collection Volume 1 2025Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2011–2013)

Start with Solaris Rising and read in order.

#	Title
1	Solaris Rising 2011Buy 🇺🇸
2	Solaris Rising 1.5(By: Paul Cornell,Tanith Lee,Mike Resnick,Aliette de Bodard,Adam Roberts,Paul Di Filippo,Ian Whates,Gareth L. Powell,Sarah Lotz,Philip Vine) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
3	Solaris Rising 2(By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch,Paul Cornell,Liz Williams,James Lovegrove,Robert Reed,Eugie Foster,Nancy Kress,Nick Harkaway,Norman Spinrad,Vandana Singh,Kim Lakin-Smith,Ian Whates,Paul Cornell, Jr.,Kay Kenyon,Adrian Tchaikovsky,Martin Sketchley,Allan Steele) 2013Buy 🇺🇸

7 books (2004–2026)

Start with Century Rain, the first of 7 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Century Rain 2004Buy 🇺🇸
2	Pushing Ice 2005Buy 🇺🇸
3	House of Suns 2008Buy 🇺🇸
4	Terminal World 2010Buy 🇺🇸
5	Permafrost 2019Buy 🇺🇸
6	Eversion 2022Buy 🇺🇸
7	Halcyon Years 2026Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2016–2016)

#	Title
1	The Medusa Chronicles(With: Stephen Baxter) 2016Buy 🇺🇸

18 books (1996–2013)

Start with Year's Best SF, the first of 18 books in the Year's Best SF Anthology series.

#	Title
1	Year's Best SF 1996Buy 🇺🇸
2	Year's Best SF 2 1997Buy 🇺🇸
3	Year's Best SF 3 1998Buy 🇺🇸
4	Year's Best SF 4 1999Buy 🇺🇸
5	Year's Best SF 5 2000Buy 🇺🇸
6	Year's Best SF 6 2001Buy 🇺🇸
7	Year's Best SF 7 2002Buy 🇺🇸
8	Year's Best SF 8 2003Buy 🇺🇸
9	Year's Best SF 9 2004Buy 🇺🇸
10	Year's Best SF 10 2005Buy 🇺🇸
11	Year's Best SF 11 2006Buy 🇺🇸
12	Year's Best SF 12 2007Buy 🇺🇸
13	Year's Best SF 13 2008Buy 🇺🇸
14	Year's Best SF 14 2009Buy 🇺🇸
15	Year's Best SF 15 2010Buy 🇺🇸
16	Year's Best SF 16 2011Buy 🇺🇸
17	Year's Best SF 17 2012Buy 🇺🇸
18	Year's Best SF 18 2013Buy 🇺🇸