Alastair Reynolds

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

— Alastair Reynolds

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

— Alastair Reynolds

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

— Alastair Reynolds

“Nothing endures, except nothing itself.”

— Alastair Reynolds

“Masai and elephants. The rest is dust.”

— Alastair Reynolds

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

— Alastair Reynolds

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

— Alastair Reynolds

To be remembered at all is an achievement of sorts.

— Alastair Reynolds

When I was writing 'House Of Suns,' there were a few writers I had in mind as role models, the main being…

— Alastair Reynolds

“Well," she said, "I see it hasn't got a fuck of a lot better since I was away.”

— Alastair Reynolds

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

“None of us is a monster, Chiku. We’re all just trying to make the best of our singular natures.”

— Alastair Reynolds

“I’d sliced his head off because in that moment I couldn’t think of anything simpler or more beautiful to do.”

— Alastair Reynolds

I don't like a lot of what's published as hard SF. Much of it is right-wing, reactionary crap.

— Alastair Reynolds

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

I've always loved far future SF, so it was more or less a given that I would one day want to write…

— Alastair Reynolds

“History is what we write, not what we remember. Why should we tarnish the memory of our planet by enshrining our less…

— Alastair Reynolds

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

At one time, the treatment for a certain kind of psychosis had been to push an ice pick up through the orbit…

— Alastair Reynolds

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

“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

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

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

A lot of science fiction is very accessible and very readable, but a lot of people are justifiably put off by the…

— Alastair Reynolds

The first time I read a crime novel - I think it may have been an Elmore Leonard book - it took…

— Alastair Reynolds

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

“There was something heartbreakingly beautiful about the lights of distant ships, I thought. It was something that touched both on human achievement…

— 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

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

— 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

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

— Alastair Reynolds

“Matter is lazy. It resists change. It wants to keep on doing whatever it's doing, whether that's sitting still or moving. We…

— 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

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

“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

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

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

— Alastair Reynolds

Ideas have a certain gestation period that can't be forced.

— Alastair Reynolds