This article is about the book. For the celestial direction, see Galactic coordinate system.
"Nightingale (short story)" redirects here. For the fairy tale, see The Nightingale (fairy tale). For other uses, see Nightingale (disambiguation).
Galactic North
Cover of the original 2006 edition.
Author
Alastair Reynolds
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Genre
Science fiction
Publisher
Gollancz
Publication date
19 October 2006
Media type
Print (hardback & paperback)
ISBN
978-0-575-07910-6
OCLC
77792724
Dewey Decimal
823/.92 22
LC Class
PR6068.E95 G35 2006
Galactic North is a collection of science fiction short stories by British author Alastair Reynolds, published by Gollancz in 2006. It comprises most of Reynold's short stories and novellas set in the Revelation Space universe.
approximation of the galactic plane but offset to its north. It uses the right-handed convention, meaning that coordinates are positive toward the north and toward...
GalacticNorth is a collection of science fiction short stories by British author Alastair Reynolds, published by Gollancz in 2006. It comprises most of...
Galactic is an American funk band from New Orleans, Louisiana. Formed in 1994 as an octet (under the name Galactic Prophylactic) and including singer Chris...
introductory text in the collections Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days and GalacticNorth, and also on several editions of the novels set in the universe. He...
perpendicular to the galactic plane point to the galactic poles. In actual usage, the terms galactic plane and galactic poles usually refer specifically to the...
for example, "1st galactic quadrant", "second galactic quadrant", or "third quadrant of the Milky Way". Viewing from the northgalactic pole with 0° (zero...
in GalacticNorth (2006) "Grafenwalder's Bestiary" – Originally published in GalacticNorth (2006) "Nightingale" – Originally published in Galactic North...
Legend of the Galactic Heroes (Japanese: 銀河英雄伝説, Hepburn: Ginga Eiyū Densetsu), sometimes abbreviated as LOTGH, LOGH, LGH or Gin'eiden (銀英伝) in Japanese...
Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. is a British-American spaceflight company founded by Richard Branson and the Virgin Group conglomerate which retains an...
Way galactic plane) Camelopardalis Ursa Major Coma Berenices (near the Milky Way galacticnorth pole) Virgo Centaurus Circinus (in the galactic plane)...
the 6 o'clock position bisects the Sol system" (when viewed from the galacticnorth pole), then the four fictional quadrants are as follows: Alpha Quadrant...
ordinals—for example, "1st galactic quadrant", "second galactic quadrant", or "third quadrant of the Galaxy". Viewing from the northgalactic pole with 0 degrees...
are set in Reynolds's well-known Revelation Space universe, although GalacticNorth, a collection of most of Reynolds's Revelation Space short stories,...
Archived from the original on 2001-04-05. Reynolds, Alastair (2006). GalacticNorth. London: Gollancz. ISBN 978-0-5750-8312-7. Crowther, Peter, ed. (2005)...
been released in Japan on November 22, 2002 and in North America on June 5, 2003. The title of Galactic Wrestling, in Japan, is often abbreviated as Niku...
speed of about 255 km/s in a clockwise direction when viewed from the galacticnorth pole at a radius of ≈ 8.34 kpc about the center of the galaxy near Sgr...
Jump as it ran in Japan and released the single volume in North America in 2015. Jaco, a Galactic Patrolman sent to Earth to protect it from an evil alien...
are the largest known structures in the universe, consisting of walls of galactic superclusters. These massive, thread-like formations can commonly reach...
The Galactic Patrol was an intergalactic organization in the Lensman science fiction series written by E. E. Smith. It was also the title of the third...
"Future Histories", which later formed the afterword to the collection GalacticNorth. Ken MacLeod remembered reading it in 1975, originally thinking it would...
ends. The Greenfly threat is described in detail in the short story "GalacticNorth", from its origins until the year 40,000, by which time it has spread...
system is located at a maximum distance from the galactic plane in the direction of galacticnorth and lowest when it is down south. An explanation for...
The following is a list of Virgin Galactic launches since 2003. The Virgin Galactic series of vehicles, starting with SpaceShipOne, are more comparable...
the direction towards the Galactic Center. Galactic latitude resembles the elevation above the galactic plane and galactic longitude determines direction...
spaceplane. It is the second SpaceShipTwo to be built and is part of the Virgin Galactic fleet. It first reached space as defined by the United States (above 50...