;ABMETADATA2 #audiobookshelf v2.2.20 media=book tags=["Science Fiction","Anthologies & Short Stories","Space Opera"] title=Galactic North subtitle= authors=Alastair Reynolds narrators=John Lee publishedYear=2009 publisher=Tantor Audio isbn=9780575083127 asin=B002V8MRS2 language=English genres=Science Fiction & Fantasy series=Revelation Space explicit=N abridged=N [DESCRIPTION] Centuries from now, the basic right to expand human intelligence beyond its natural limits has become a war-worthy cause for the Demarchists and Conjoiners. Only vast lighthugger starships bind these squabbling colonies together, manned by the panicky and paranoid Ultras. And the hyperpigs just try to keep their heads down. The rich get richer. And everyone tries not to think about the worrying number of extinct alien civilizations turning up on the outer reaches of settled space...because who's to say that humanity won't be next? Set in the Revelation Space universe, this is the first short story collection by the author who has been called "one of SF's best and most ambitious novelists". The eight stories included in Galactic North are "Great Wall of Mars", "Glacial", "A Spy in Europa", "Weather", "Dilation Sleep", "Grafenwalder's Bestiary", "Nightingale", and "Galactic North". [CHAPTER] start=0 end=26.8 title=01 Intro [CHAPTER] start=26.8 end=6457.112 title=02 Great Wall of Mars [CHAPTER] start=6457.112 end=12861.288 title=03 Glacial [CHAPTER] start=12861.288 end=15845.464 title=04 A Spy in Europa [CHAPTER] start=15845.464 end=22961.311999999998 title=05 Weather [CHAPTER] start=22961.311999999998 end=25172.424 title=06 Dilation Sleep [CHAPTER] start=25172.424 end=31361.415999999997 title=07 Grafenwelder's Bestiary [CHAPTER] start=31361.415999999997 end=40482.439999999995 title=08 Nightingale [CHAPTER] start=40482.439999999995 end=45704.471999999994 title=09 Galactic North [CHAPTER] start=45704.471999999994 end=46565.10399999999 title=10 Afterword [CHAPTER] start=46565.10399999999 end=46569.41599999999 title=11 End