When I'm working on one book, part of my imagination is thinking ahead to the next one. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
It's a novel experience to have one of my books read by a reading group. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
If you do a certain amount of work every day, it will eventually become a novel. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
In crime, I like Ian Rankin and James Lee Burke. As for historical books, I enjoy Bernard Cornwell, Patrick O'Brien, and C.… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
I think the danger with using the term 'trilogy' is that it sets up particular expectations in the reader's mind. — Alastair Reynolds 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 Copy Share Image
I'm a wishy-washy 'Guardian' reader, but the last thing I want to do is force a political agenda down people's throats. It's… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
The first time I read a crime novel - I think it may have been an Elmore Leonard book - it took… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
What works for me is simply to read a lot of stuff throughout the year - not with a particular story or… — 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
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
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
I couldn't ever write a straight crime novel: there'd be an intrusion of weirdness at some point. — 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
My mother was a part of a reading group, but they would never come near science fiction because they think it's not… — Alastair Reynolds 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 Copy Share Image
When you're writing stuff that's already clotted with neologisms and trying to get across fairly abstruse concepts, you're already putting a heavy… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
I come at it from a different angle of attack with each novel, searching for the technological texture the story demands. There… — Alastair Reynolds 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 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 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 thing before… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“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 Image
I couldn't think of anything more pointless than reading a piece of fiction written by a robot. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
When I'm working on one book, part of my imagination is thinking ahead to the next one. — 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 out all… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
Victory loses its meaning without the memory of what you've vanquished. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“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 Image
Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
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 Image
