CENTURY RAIN

First edition thus. Limited edition. Signed by the author. Full navy blue leather with four raised bands to the spine, gilt titles, decorations and illustrations to the spine and boards. All edges gilt. Illustrated with a full page colour frontispiece by William O'Connor. With the Easton Press certificate of authenticity loosely laid in. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm, with a touch of rubbing to the fore-edge of the upper board. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps.

Issued in a limited edition of 900 copies of which this example is numbered 719 and signed by Alastair Reynolds in blue ink on the limitation page. An alternative history mystery novel, bridging space and time. The author has a PhD in astrophysics and spent many years working for the European Space Research and Technology Centre before becoming a full-time writer; his scientific knowledge underpins the Revelation Space universe, lending it particular detail and plausibility.