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 Come Copy Share Image
“Everyone has their fulcrum, Chiku. You can bend anyone to any cause with the right timing.” — Alastair Reynolds Fulcrum Copy Share Image
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 Always Copy Share Image
“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 Wanderlust 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 Days 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 Industrial revolution Copy Share Image
“Arethusa liked to call us Poseidon’s Children. Orphans of the storm. We’d endured the worst the world could throw at us, the… — Alastair Reynolds Children Copy Share Image
Enjoy it, kid. Enjoy feeling that you can make a difference.' Floyd flashed him a smile. 'It won't last for ever. — Alastair Reynolds Differences Copy Share Image
“They would continue to live in New Tiamaat, orbiting Crucible.” — 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
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 American Copy Share Image
I've always been skeptical of the idea that sentience is going to be an exclusively human attribute. — Alastair Reynolds Always 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
“It’s one thing to be given a big boxful of theory and quite another to make an engine out of it.” — Alastair Reynolds Theory Copy Share Image
I always say that keeping abreast of science should never be seen as a chore. It should be something you do naturally.… — Alastair Reynolds Ideas 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
I think I've reduced the amount of blood in my caffeine system to an acceptable level. — Alastair Reynolds Blood 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
I'm not massively fond of right-wing nutters or war criminals. — Alastair Reynolds Fond Copy Share Image
“Do you have to sound so damned indifferent to it all? Here we are talking about how we're likely to be dead… — Alastair Reynolds Death Copy Share Image
“As her psychosis took hold she moved deeper and deeper into the house, putting as much distance as possible between herself and… — Alastair Reynolds Outside world Copy Share Image
One of the big breakthroughs I had as a writer was when I stopped agonising over every word. — Alastair Reynolds Big Copy Share Image
