Alastair Reynolds Gets £1 Million To Write Some More Space Operas

Do n’t have anybody state you there ’s no money in write science fiction . Revelation Space and Pushing Ice writer Alastair Reynolds just got a £ 1 million book of account spate ( about $ 1.65 million ) from his publisher , Gollancz .

It ’s not quite as monolithic as it fathom at first — that £ 1 million is for ten books over the next ten years , so it ’s only £ 100,000 per book . But that ’s still quite a sweet cash advance , and as Reynolds himself points out , the deal “ give me a huge amount of security for the next ten year . ” It does mean he has to put out a Christian Bible a year , but Reynolds , who quit his job as a scientist with the European Space Agency to write full - sentence starting in 2004 , state he ’s proved over the past decade that he can meet deadlines . He ’s already written eight books during that clip , a few of them while he was still at the ESA .

say his editor Jo Fletcher at Gollancz :

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We do n’t sling that sort of money around gently . Al ’s got magnanimous thought for the futurity and we wanted to make that take place , but it ’s also a signal to the publishing industriousness that we ’re taking him in earnest , and that they necessitate to … He is very salutary at word picture , he is very good at complex plot of land and he ’s very good at making you sense the vastness out there . He ’s got the whole software program .

The braggy book sight does sort of confirm Reynolds ’ position as one of the giants of the Modern British space opera . And it ’s peculiarly interesting because I do n’t get the common sense that he ’s quite as big a name in the U.S. as he is in the U.K. Reynolds ’ most late script , the Clarke Award - appoint House Of Suns , only just get along out in the U.S.months after its debut in England .

Top image isChris Moore ’s covert art for Reynolds ’ next novel , Terminal World .

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