Book guide
Belladonna Nights and Other Stories
Sixteen journeys into strange futures, impossible worlds and the human cost of cosmic-scale change.
GenresSci-FiSpace Opera
About Belladonna Nights and Other Stories
This collection gathers sixteen stories from Reynolds's later short fiction, moving between far-future space opera, hard-science speculation and intimate encounters with alien or transformed worlds. It includes the title story alongside "A Map of Mercury," "Death's Door," "Plague Music" and "Night Passage," with an introduction and notes from the author.
Reading signals
- Spice
- None
- Darkness
- Balanced
- Pacing
- Balanced
Content warnings
- death
- murder
- suicide
- violence
- mass casualties
- body horror
- disease and plague
- drug use
- serious injury and disability
- psychological horror
