Alastair Reynolds

“Masai and elephants. The rest is dust.”

— Alastair Reynolds

Dreams of warp drives and hyperspace are just that - dreams.

— Alastair Reynolds

“No act of knowledge acquisition is entirely without risk.”

— Alastair Reynolds

I'm still bothered by the threat of nuclear war.

— Alastair Reynolds

“Nothing endures, except nothing itself.”

— Alastair Reynolds

“They would continue to live in New Tiamaat, orbiting Crucible.”

— Alastair Reynolds

I hope that 'House of Suns' functions as an independent novel.

— Alastair Reynolds

It's an ancient technique known as lying, Khouri.

— Alastair Reynolds

I think I've reduced the amount of blood in my caffeine system to an acceptable level.

— Alastair Reynolds

I don't think the computer will win the Booker, but no-one ever expected a computer to beat a chess grandmaster.

— Alastair Reynolds

I prioritise story over science, but not at the expense of being really stupid about it.

— Alastair Reynolds

As the old saying went, the Manhattan Project wasn't built in a day. Or was that Rome? Something to do with Earth,…

— Alastair Reynolds

“We have worlds to save, Doctor Aziba.” “That sounds ... compelling,” the physician allowed.”

— Alastair Reynolds

When I'm working on one book, part of my imagination is thinking ahead to the next one.

— Alastair Reynolds

“...the next time you need a piece of apparently obscure information, try asking a science fiction writer. You might be surprised.”

— Alastair Reynolds

“Sooner or later everything boils down to trust. You just have to make that leap of faith.”

— Alastair Reynolds

When I look back at many of the moments of wonder, awe, or terror that I've got from science fiction, it's often…

— Alastair Reynolds

It's not healthy to obsess over every data point, every review or reader comment. I think the first few times you see…

— Alastair Reynolds

I don't know why, but American sci-fi writers seem to focus on the near-future, which has given us Brits a clear run…

— Alastair Reynolds

Daleks scared the hell out of me, to the point where I wouldn't go round to another boy's house because he had…

— Alastair Reynolds

Speaking for myself, I really struggle to pinpoint whether I became a scientist because I like science fiction, or did I gravitate…

— Alastair Reynolds

No idea should be discarded completely, but - as one might imagine - it does take a degree of ingenuity to find…

— Alastair Reynolds

“My people are impressing on Tulwar's people the wisdom of surrender and a rapid shift of allegiance. I'm counting on most them…

— Alastair Reynolds

Why would you need to expand beyond the solar system if you already have access to all the information you need, and…

— Alastair Reynolds

“To feel oneself so tiny, so fragile, so inherently losable, was at first spiritually crushing. But, by the same token, this realisation…

— Alastair Reynolds

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

How did you . . . pass the time?’ Sunday asked. ‘You couldn’t just ching out of it, could you?’ ‘We had…

— Alastair Reynolds

“Believe me, when you're dealing with infectious alien mind parasites, I always find primitive is best." Then, calmly, almost as if it…

— Alastair Reynolds

I'm a genre writer - I chose to be one, I ended up one, I still am one, and I'm not writing…

— Alastair Reynolds

“You've found a way to stay sane, Renfew--even if that means admitting a tiny piece of piano-playing madness into your world. But…

— Alastair Reynolds

Looking at where the planet is now, we could screw things up massively or we could wise-up on a species level and…

— Alastair Reynolds

“Volyova felt as if her brain consisted of a room full of precocious schoolchildren: individually bright, and—if only they would pool themselves—capable…

— Alastair Reynolds

“As her psychosis took hold she moved deeper and deeper into the house, putting as much distance as possible between herself and…

— Alastair Reynolds

“The game’s rules were Byzantine, and we had to work them out through trial and error. One rule, which had only gradually…

— Alastair Reynolds

“It was the most perfectly warm and still summer night in months. Even the breeze caused by the airship’s motion was warmer…

— Alastair Reynolds

To see something marvelous with your own eyes-that's wonderful enough. But when two of you see it, two of you together, holding…

— Alastair Reynolds

“She wanted to climb on to the rack herself to wrench one of the pilgrims away from the sight that transfixed them,…

— Alastair Reynolds

“I've seen marvelous things, Sunday. I've looked back from the edge of the system and seen this planet, this Earth, reduced to…

— Alastair Reynolds

“Consider all the inanimate matter in the universe, all the dumb atoms, all the mindless molecules, all the oblivious dust grains and…

— Alastair Reynolds

I've always had ideas for more books than I can write.

— Alastair Reynolds