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Beyond the aquila rift short story pdf Continue In addition to Aquila Rift AuthorAlastair ReynoldsCountryUkryUkryLanguageEnglishGenreScience FictionPublisherGollanczPublication Date30 June 2016Media typePrint (hardback ) Pages781ISBN978-0-575-07910-6OCLC945105570Dewey Decimal823/.92 23LC ClassPR6068.E95 A6 2016 Beyond the Aquila Rift is a collection of sci-fi short stories and short stories by British writer Alastair Reynolds, published by Gallants, edited by Jonathan Strahan and William Schafer. It contains works previously published on other sites. The collection includes several stories related to Reynolds' previous stories and novels. The Great Martian Wall, The Weather, the Last Journal of Lachrimosa and Diamond Dogs take place in the universe of the Discovery of The Cosmos, the Thousandth Night passes in the same universe as the House of the Sun, and the Water Thief takes place in the universe of the Children of Poseidon. Stories Title Name Date Great Wall of Mars Spectrum SF 1 1 2000 Weather Galactic North 2 2 2006 Behind Aquila Rift Constellations 3 2005 Minla Flowers New Space Opera 2006 Winter Blue Postscripts #4 2005 Fury Eclipse 2: New Scientific 2 Fiction and Fantasy 6 2008 The Star Surgeon's Apprentice Star Rift 7 2008 Daughter of the Sanay-maker Interzone #209 8 2007 Diamond Dogs Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days 9 2003 ThousandThirty Night One Million n.d. 10 2005 Troika Of God-like Machines 11 2010 Sleepover Mammoth Book Apocalyptic SF 12 2010 Vainglory Edge of Infinity 13 2008 Injury Pod Armored The Water Thief Arc 1.116 2008 The Old Man and the Martian Sea (The Water Thief) Arc 1.16 2008 The Old Man and the Martian Sea Life on Mars 2019 Alastair Reynolds announced that his short story Beyond Aquila Rift was adapted as part of Netflix's animated anthology Love, Death and Robots. This story, along with Winter Blue are Reynolds' first works to be adapted for television or film. Cm. also Revelation Cosmic Universe Links to Spectrum SF Inventory. spectrumpublishing.com. SF Spectrum. Archive from the original on 2001-04-05. Alastair Reynolds (2006). Galactic North. London: Gollanch. ISBN 978-0-5750-8312-7. Crowther, Peter, ed. (2005). Constellations: The Best of the New British SF. New York: DAW Books. ISBN 978-0-7564-0234-1. Dozier, Gardner; Strachan, Jonathan, eds. (2006). New Space Opera. New York: Eos. ISBN 978-0-0608-4675-6. Lists of SF sites. SFsite.com. SF. Archive from the original for 2016-03-04. Received 2017-10-27. Strachan, Jonathan, Ed. Eclipse Two: New Science Fiction and Fantasy. San Francisco: The Night Shadow of the Book. ISBN 978-1-5978-0136-2. Strachan, Jonathan, Ed. Star Break. New York: Viking. ISBN 978-0-6700-6059-7. Greg Egan's Interzone Index. ttapress.com. TTA Press. Archive original for 2017-09-09. Received 2017-10-27. Reynolds, Alastair (2003). Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days. London: Gollanch. ISBN 0-575-07526-0. Dozier, Gardner, ed. One Million Garden City, New York: A Sci-Fi Book Club. ISBN 978-0-7394-6273-7. Strachan, Jonathan, Ed. (2010). Garden City, New York: A sci-fi book club. ISBN 978-1-6166-4759-9. Ashley, Michael, Ed. (2010). Mammoth book apocalyptic SF. London: Press launch. ISBN 978-1-8490-1495-3. Strachan, Jonathan, Ed. (2008). Oxford: Solaris. ISBN 978-1-7810-8056-6. Adams, John Joseph, Ed. Armored. Riverdale (New York): Baen Publishing Enterprises. ISBN 978-1-4516-3817-2. Alastair Reynolds (2014). The last magazine of Lahrimosa. subterraneanpress.com. Underground press. Archive from the original 2016-12-09. Received 2017-10-27. Arc 1.1 / Future always wins. arcfinity.org Offinity. 2008. Archive from the original 2016-10-27. Received 2017-10-27. Strachan, Jonathan, Ed. (2011). About life on Mars. New York: Viking. ISBN 978-1-1015-0444-4. Strachan, Jonathan, Ed. (2014). Oxford: Solaris. ISBN 978-1-7810-8202-7. Reynolds, Alastair. Love, death and robots. Approach Pavonis Mons in a hot air balloon (official blog author). Received on March 12, 2019. Received from Philip Gelatt, Alastair Reynolds (Original Story) Leon Berel, Dominic Boidin, Remi Kozyra, Maxime Lauer's Previous Next When Yogurt Took on a Good Hunt for Aquila Rift is the seventh episode of the first season of Love, Death and Robots. Content of the show episode SynopsisEdit Awakening after traveling light years off course, the ship's crew struggles to figure out how far they have come. PlotEdit Episode begins with a cargo spaceship - the Blue Goose - in a line of ships heading towards the gate of the splash point. When the Blue Goose lines up to enter the gate, its captain - Tom - looks outside and laments in line. Ray responds by lamenting his hangover. After Tom checks Ray and Susie, if the ship is ready to enter the gate, they all enter their tanks in preparation for a faster-than-light journey. Tom and Susie wake up on the ship - being moored in a repair complex instead of a destination - and meet Tom's old friend - Greta - who explains that they are in Saumlaki Station in the Shedar sector, that it was a routing error in routing the ship's section, and that arkangel Dispatcher had to crash in their syntax launch models. Susie responds with a grain of salt and tries to get up, but she stumbles and Tom and Greta put her back in her tank. Greta then accompanies Tom outside the Blue Goose and to Somlaki Station. Some time passes, and Tom is now in Greta - now dressed in an alluring night dress - walks towards him and sits on the sofa next to him. They admire the view outside the bar, and she leans towards him to tell him the secret: that she hoped to bump into Tom again after throwing them together four years ago. They then proceed to have sex in Greta's cabin. A little more time passes, and Tom sits on Greta's bed. His mind remains concerned about the events that have piled up. Greta admits she wasn't completely honest with Tom. She admits that they are not actually in the Shedar sector, and that the routing error has taken it far beyond what she originally allowed. She gets out of bed and presents a holographic map, demonstrating that The Saumlaki station is, in fact, 150,000 light-years from Earth. Tom - upset by the news - asks Greta how long he and his crew have been in their tanks. Greta replies that in subjective times they were in their tanks for only a few months, but a few centuries passed at home on Earth. Tom struggles to come to terms with what Greta just told him, and yells at her that he might as well be dead. Greta tells him that he is still alive, and that she ended up at Somlaki station just like he did: a routing error. She tells him that it is always the same routing error, and that she brought everyone to the station. She then invites him to wake up his team from their tanks. Tom wakes up Susie and asks her to remember the last thing she remembers. Susie describes Arkhangelsk in unpleasant terms, then dreams: dreams, as a meeting in which she is now. She notices Greta in the corner and asks Tom who she is. When Tom replies that it's his old friend Greta, Susie immediately counters it, saying it's not Greta. Susie yells at Greta, demanding to know who and what she is, implying that she may be aware of Greta's true nature and the environment of the Blue Goose crew in. Susie snatches the statue from Greta's hands and tries to stab her. Susie manages to scrape Greta's neck with the statue, but Greta successfully counters it by injecting a tranquilizer needle into her chest. Susie is knocked out, and Greta leaves Tom to take Susie back to her tank alone. Back in the cockpit, Tom watches Greta's neck as she sleeps, and notices that Susie's cut has disappeared. He then tells Greta that Susie is right about her, and that she's not really Greta. Greta - realizing that she can no longer hide the truth from Tom - responds to him by telling him that his entire entourage is just a simulation fed to his mind, and that he is still asleep in his tank. Tom demands the whole truth from Greta, who resists telling him that he is not ready. Tom tells her he wants to see the station -- and Greta for what they really are. After a tearful Greta continues to resist Tom's increasingly angry and aggressive demands, she eventually caves in, but not before telling him that she cares about him and that she cares about all the lost souls that end up here. Tom looks into the camera, anticipating the world outside of her modeling. Tom wakes up in his tank and meets the terrifying reality that his body has been in all this time: an alien hive containing several wrecked ships that also ended up there through a routing error. Tom himself is severely exhausted to the point that his skeleton is clearly visible, and his hair and beard have grown to untidy levels. As he silently looks around his entourage and notices the long-dead bodies of his team, he hears Greta calling out of the back of his wrecked ship. He looks inside to see the silhouette of what appears to be a busty humanoid female figure walking towards him before the silhouette comes out and shows Greta in her true form: a giant ant spider alien creature with lots of eyes.