num_pages: 186
description: This book was published with two covers - one for each work - with the rear cover showing Minla's Flowers and the front that for Thousandth Night.For many of us the Ace Double Novels of the 50s and 60s have long been a source both of pleasure and nostalgia. This new double volume from Subterranean Press stands squarely in that distinguished tradition offering a pair of colorful fast-paced stories from the reigning master of the intergalactic space opera: Alastair Reynolds. Thousandth Night the genesis for the epic novel House of Suns is quintessential Reynolds. A visionary account of intrigue ambition and technological marvels set within a beautifully realized far-future milieu it combines world-class storytelling with a provocative meditation on the mystery grandeur and inconceivable immensity of the universe.The masterful novella Minla s Flowers features Merlin a familiar figure to Reynolds s readers. Diverted by technical difficulties to a planet known as Lecythus Merlin finds himself forced to play a part in the moral and military dilemmas of a world on the verge of extinction.
language: English
title: Thousandth Night / Minla's Flowers
publisher: Subterranean Press