“Humanity is an assemblage of information-processing entities, and in that regard you have potential.” — Alastair Reynolds Humanity Copy Share Image
I always like Iain Banks science fiction stuff and William Gibson's cyberpunk stuff from the 1980s. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
If you do a certain amount of work every day, it will eventually become a novel. — Alastair Reynolds Books Copy Share Image
I despair of reality television, but I've never met anyone who watches it. Or people say, 'I watch it, but I hate… — Alastair Reynolds Despair Copy Share Image
I would much rather we concentrated on the immediate, still-potent dangers, such as nuclear weapons, runaway climate change, and so on. Sort… — Alastair Reynolds Change Copy Share Image
“It was that same old spiralling argument, and again he didn’t have the energy to fight his corner. ‘When you put it… — Alastair Reynolds Argument Copy Share Image
At one time, the treatment for a certain kind of psychosis had been to push an ice pick up through the orbit… — Alastair Reynolds Brain Copy Share Image
I'm always a little bit cautious around invented terminology because so much science fiction is off-putting to the uninitiated. You open up… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“History is what we write, not what we remember. Why should we tarnish the memory of our planet by enshrining our less… — Alastair Reynolds History Copy Share Image
A lot of science fiction is very accessible and very readable, but a lot of people are justifiably put off by the… — Alastair Reynolds Fiction Copy Share Image
It’s the people who don’t worry—those who never have any doubts that what they’re doing is good and right—they’re the ones that… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Cyphel knew exactly how he felt about her as well — it was there in her expression whenever they spoke that beguiling… — Alastair Reynolds Haughtiness Copy Share Image
“There's a vorg loose," Meroka explained. "In case that escaped your attention. Ricasso's doing his bit for Swarm, trying to kill the… — 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 Books 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 Books Copy Share Image
I watched 'Who' with a mixture of affection and exasperation through the eighties, always ready to cheer on the Doctor but seldom… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“It was a wartime story, goodies versus baddies, lots of explosions and shooting. The Germans always shouted 'Aiiieeee!' as they died. Atkins… — Alastair Reynolds Death Copy Share Image
As a kid, I'd buy novels with these magnificent Chris Fosse covers which showed an enormous contraption hovering over a planet, and… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
We live in a science fictional world with things like cloning and face transplants, and things seem to be getting stranger and… — Alastair Reynolds Cloning 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 was born in a house with a million rooms, built on a small, airless world on the edge of an empire… — Alastair Reynolds Business Copy Share Image
We've had science fiction novels where China is dominant; we've had novels where India is dominant, and I suppose it's all about… — Alastair Reynolds Books Copy Share Image
I didn't have a huge amount of security when I was a scientist from one contract to another. You're always thinking, 'Am… — Alastair Reynolds Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
“I knew that the swallower was just a little knot of matter, squashed so tight that even its own light couldn’t break… — Alastair Reynolds Break free Copy Share Image
Like everyone else, I read newspapers and 'New Scientist' and try to put my finger on the trends which we can just… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
Most of the time, when I get an idea that hinges on some science 'thing,' it will have been because of something… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
If there's a story I absolutely cannot tell without faster-than-light travel, then I am quite prepared to accept it - even though… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
You have to be able to invest in your own creations, to suspend your own disbelief in order to be able to… — Alastair Reynolds Disbelief Copy Share Image
If you're creating a whole universe, even if it's a universe squeezed into a solar system, you have to use a little… — Alastair Reynolds Sleight of hand Copy Share Image
In some respects, big ideas can be a bit too big for a short story - especially if you've only got a… — Alastair Reynolds Big idea Copy Share Image
'Doctor Who' is part of my science fictional DNA. You could take it out of me, and I'd probably still have ended… — Alastair Reynolds Being 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 Books Copy Share Image
As a science fiction writer, it's hard to think of a more stirring theme than the origin and ultimate destiny of life… — Alastair Reynolds Destiny Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by steam engines and with Victorian engineering generally, and as a corollary to that, I'm fascinated by the idea of… — Alastair Reynolds Engineering Copy Share Image
It's true that my stories seem to deal with the end of the world. I've often been called the high priest of… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“You're confident he'll have found him, then?" "Well, no. I didn't sat that." "If there's one thing I hate," Volyova said, looking… — Alastair Reynolds Cynicism Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers aren't short of ideas. You can read a book, and it sets off a chain of thought processes, so… — Alastair Reynolds Books Copy Share Image
I am playing in a playground that's already been played in. I am always aware that a lot of the furniture in… — 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
“if human beings really grasped how synthetic their world was - how much of it was stitched together not from direct perception,… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
