For me, the distant future and far-off galaxies is where it's at. That's where my imagination can really come out to play. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
When I was writing 'House Of Suns,' there were a few writers I had in mind as role models, the main being… — Alastair Reynolds Being Copy Share Image
“Well," she said, "I see it hasn't got a fuck of a lot better since I was away.” — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“I’d sliced his head off because in that moment I couldn’t think of anything simpler or more beautiful to do.” — Alastair Reynolds Time Copy Share Image
“None of us is a monster, Chiku. We’re all just trying to make the best of our singular natures.” — Alastair Reynolds Monster Copy Share Image
Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“You look older, son.” “Yes, well, some of us have to get on with the business of being alive in the entropic… — Alastair Reynolds Business Copy Share Image
“An idea so dangerous it can’t be discussed. I thought we buried all that nonsense back in the Dark Ages.” — Alastair Reynolds Dark ages Copy Share Image
“I think the deeper we go, the less likelihood we'll have of being recognised as something unwanted. It's like the human body… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
I just start writing, and in the process, one hopefully comes up with ideas and solutions and explores all the little nooks… — Alastair Reynolds Ideas Copy Share Image
“That didn’t take long,” Trysil said, clenching a fist so that the muscles popped out along her arm. “You know the captain.… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“So much for the tolerant acceptance of the other. We’re forging out into deep space – who knows what we’ll meet out… — Alastair Reynolds Acceptance Copy Share Image
The idea of a computer winning the Nobel Prize for physics is not too unlikely, citing a computer as joint recipient. It's… — Alastair Reynolds Computers Copy Share Image
“Meddling is what we do. It’s what defines us. Meddling gave us fire and tools and civilisation and the keys to the… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
The human capacity for grief. It just isn't capable of providing an adequate emotional response once the dead exceed a few dozen… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
Sitting here at the beginning of the 21st century, we're only 200 years into the industrial revolution. We don't have an enormous… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“I saw immediately what they were: human technology that had become haunted, possessed by quick, gleaming cleverness. I had seen smart machines… — Alastair Reynolds Computers Copy Share Image
I've never had much interest in spinoffery - the idea of writing in someone else's universe generally leaves me cold - but… — Alastair Reynolds Black and white Copy Share Image
“All I can say for certain is that, beneath the scrambled chaos of my memories, I feel a driving imperative, a sense… — Alastair Reynolds Life meaning Copy Share Image
“I'll die? I'm going to die anyway, so what difference does it make?"She paused, allowing the melancholic chorus of the machines to… — Alastair Reynolds Computers Copy Share Image
“It’s not the span of time that counts, but what you do with it. While you humans have been grubbing around the… — Alastair Reynolds Existance 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… — Alastair Reynolds Drinking water Copy Share Image
One of the dangers of science fiction, particularly bad science fiction, is that you have these scenes where the characters turn to… — 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 Adventure Copy Share Image
I've always been attracted to Pertwee's portrayal of the Doctor as dashing man-of-science, charming, sceptical, and rational. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
Victory loses its meaning without the memory of what you've vanquished. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Everything depends on everything else, doesn’t it? That’s interconnectivity for you – it’s a bitch.” — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
I couldn't think of anything more pointless than reading a piece of fiction written by a robot. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
You worry that we're becoming monsters. Merlin, we already were monsters. You didn't make us any worse. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
As an SF writer, you've got the infinite toolkit of the writer at your disposal. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
One of the big breakthroughs I had as a writer was when I stopped agonising over every word. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
I'm not actually that bothered about the 'science fiction-ness' of 'Doctor Who.' — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“It’s one thing to be given a big boxful of theory and quite another to make an engine out of it.” — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“I haven’t needed anything big enough from you to justify being pleasant, and I doubt I ever will.” — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
The cards always look different when it's your turn to play them; loaded with subtly different possibilities. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
I'm just happy to have some American readers - enough that it's a viable proposition for my books to appear there. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
It's a novel experience to have one of my books read by a reading group. — Alastair Reynolds Book 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 Asteroids Copy Share Image
“Life is precious. Infinitely so. Perhaps it takes a machine intelligence to appreciate that." ~"Understanding Space & Time” — Alastair Reynolds Computers Copy Share Image
“Everyone has their fulcrum, Chiku. You can bend anyone to any cause with the right timing.” — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
