Zima Blue and Other Stories

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Zima Blue and Other Stories (2006, ISBN 1-59780-058-9) is the first collection of short works by Alastair Reynolds. It was published in September 2006, by Night Shade Books. It includes ten stories, most of them long out of print. All the stories in it are stand-alone, while another collection of Reynolds's short stories taking place in his Revelation Space universe, Galactic North, was released soon after.

The contents are:

• Introduction by Paul J. McAuley
• "Angels of Ashes" (Originally published in Asimov's SF, July 1999; unavailable since then)
• "Beyond the Aquila Rift" (Originally published in Constellations, edited by Peter Crowther, 2005)
• "Enola" (Originally published in Interzone 54, December 1991; unavailable since then in English)
• "Hideaway" (Originally published in Interzone 157, July 2000; unavailable since then)
• "Merlin's Gun" (Originally published in Asimov's SF, May 2000; unavailable since then)
• "The Real Story" (Originally published in Mars Probes, edited by Peter Crowther, 2002)
• "Spirey and the Queen" (Originally published in Interzone 108, June 1996)
• "Understanding Space and Time" (Originally published in a limited edition of 400 copies for the Novacon 35 Sci Fi convention)
• "Zima Blue" (Originally published in Postscripts magazine, issue 4, edited by Peter Crowther)

There was also one brand new story included, "Signal to Noise", which Reynolds had recently finished and for which Reynolds was shortlisted for the 2006 British Science Fiction Association award for short fiction[1].

There is a limited edition (2006, ISBN 1-59780-059-7) with an extra story, "Digital to Analogue", and with Reynolds's signature. "Digital to Analogue" was originally published in the 1992 anthology In Dreams.

A new version of the collection is scheduled for publishing in 2009 ^[1] and will contain the story Minla's Flowers (currently available in The New Space Opera). The date of publication will depend on the date of publication of Reynolds's next novel.