Alastair Reynolds

Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight....

Late in the 26th century, the human race has advanced enough to accidentally trigger the Inhibitors---alien-killing machines designed to detect intelligent life and destroy it....

Six million years ago, at the very dawn of the starfaring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones: the shatterlings....

The once-utopian Chasm City - a domed human settlement on an otherwise inhospitable planet - has been overrun by a virus known as the Melding Plague....

The Inhibitors were designed to eliminate any life-form reaching a certain level of intelligence---and they've targeted humanity....

Beyond the Aquila Rift: It's shorthand for the trip no one ever hopes to make by accident. Men and women ripped out of time....

Three hundred years from now, Earth has been rendered uninhabitable due to the technological catastrophe known as the Nanocaust....