title: Galactic North (Revelation Space)
author:  Alastair Reynolds 
description: <b>Praise for <i>Galactic North</i></b><br /><br />A bracing read, a cold shower for the mind.<i>Time Out London<br /><br /></i>Reveals [Reynoldss] essential approach to the whole notion of future history.<i>Locus<br /><br /></i>While the settings are classic Sci-Fi, the stories are character driven and interesting. There is a bit of mystery, the macabre and the fantastic in each...will take you back to the days when Pohl, Clarke, and Niven were new to your eyes.Fresh Fiction
zlib_text: **GALACTIC NORTH**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Persistence can be a virtue, but perhaps -- as in the breakneck, relentlessly
  paced, gorgeously coloured story that follows, which sweeps us along on a
  cosmic chase across thousands of light-years of space and millions of years of
  time -- it can sometimes be taken a bit too far...
  
  
  New writer Alastair Reynolds is a frequent contributor to _Interzone_ , and
  has also sold to _Asimov's_ _Science Fiction_ and elsewhere. A professional
  scientist with a Ph.D. in astronomy, he comes from Wales, but lives in the
  Netherlands. His first novel, _Revelation Space_ , already being hailed as one
  of the major SF books of the year, has just appeared in Britain. His story "A
  Spy in Europa" appeared in our Thirteenth Annual Collection.
  
  
  
  
  
  LUYTEN 726-8 COMETARY HALO -- AD 2303
  
  
  
  
  
  The two of them crouched in a tunnel of filthy ice, bulky in spacesuits. Fifty
  metres down the tunnel the servitor straddled the bore on skeletal legs,
  transmitting a thermal image onto their viso