There are similarities between historical novels and science fiction. Being thrown into the Napoleonic Wars is just as much of a different… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
If the Chinese are the first to the asteroids or the first to Mars, good for them, as far as I'm concerned. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
The one thing that really terrifies me is we're going to get a signal from space that clears it all up: 'OK,… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
I think I set myself on a course to become a scientist around about the time that Carl Sagan's 'Cosmos' series was… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“There was something heartbreakingly beautiful about the lights of distant ships, I thought. It was something that touched both on human achievement… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
I used to be a strong believer that we would eventually colonize the solar system the way it's been done in science… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
I've been enthralled by deep vistas of space and time ever since watching George Pal's film of 'The Time Machine,' while an… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
There is enough material in the Kuiper Belt to build anything out there. We could gobble up all the little asteroids, filtering… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
I had - and continued to have - great fun exploring the Revelation Space universe, but it was always clear to me… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
In the 'Revelation Space' books, the spaceships are a bit old and rusty, and things go wrong, and they don't work quite… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I was reliably informed that we'd have gone to Mars by 1985, and of course it's 2012,… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
From apparently superluminal radio sources in deep space, to the neutrinos that were supposed to be arriving ahead of schedule at the… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“We have made some collective mistakes as a species, it’s true – invested too much power in things we can’t see, let alone control.… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share
“So much for the tolerant acceptance of the other. We’re forging out into deep space – who knows what we’ll meet out there? If… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share
“Believe me, when you're dealing with infectious alien mind parasites, I always find primitive is best." Then, calmly, almost as if it were a… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share
“There's a vorg loose," Meroka explained. "In case that escaped your attention. Ricasso's doing his bit for Swarm, trying to kill the thing before… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share
“The two men -- Fray and Malkin -- were standing near each other. They were not unarmed. They were quite seriously not unarmed. Both… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share
I couldn't think of anything more pointless than reading a piece of fiction written by a robot. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share
When I'm working on one book, part of my imagination is thinking ahead to the next one. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share
There is enough material in the Kuiper Belt to build anything out there. We could gobble up all the little asteroids, filtering out all… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share
Victory loses its meaning without the memory of what you've vanquished. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share
“I don't know." That was typical Sajaki; like all the genuinely clever people Sylveste had met he knew better than to feign understanding where… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share
Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share
Speaking for myself, I really struggle to pinpoint whether I became a scientist because I like science fiction, or did I gravitate to science… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share
“It’s not the span of time that counts, but what you do with it. While you humans have been grubbing around the galaxy, looking… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share
I had - and continued to have - great fun exploring the Revelation Space universe, but it was always clear to me that I… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share
