First edition. 4to. Pp. [vi], 506. Purple cloth boards, lettered in silver to spine. Jacket illustration by Chris Moore. A signed edition, limited to 900 copies, was issued the same year by the Easton Press.
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A noir science fiction alternate history mystery novel set on a 23rd century uninhabitable Earth overrun by rogue nanotechnology. A "personal favourite" of the author's, Reynolds has "sworn there will never be a sequel". An astrophysicist with a PhD from the University of St Andrews, he worked a decade and a half for the European Space Agency in the Netherlands, before leaving to pursue a full-time writing career. "Century Rain fuses time travel, hard SF, alternate history, interstellar adventure, and noir romance to create a novel of blistering powers and style." –SF Revu