Without risk in our lives, we're scarcely better than machines ourselves. — Alastair Reynolds Computers Copy Share Image
I'm not a morning person: I can't function until I've had a coffee - or several. — Alastair Reynolds Coffee 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
“Can we drop the ‘artificial intelligence’? It’s a bit like me calling you a meat-based processing system.” — Alastair Reynolds Artificial Copy Share Image
“Sooner or later everything boils down to trust. You just have to make that leap of faith.” — Alastair Reynolds Faith Copy Share Image
“...the next time you need a piece of apparently obscure information, try asking a science fiction writer. You might be surprised.” — Alastair Reynolds Next time Copy Share Image
“We should have brought a torch,” he was saying. “We have been to Saturn and back and we didn’t bring a torch.” — Alastair Reynolds Torch Copy Share Image
As the old saying went, the Manhattan Project wasn't built in a day. Or was that Rome? Something to do with Earth,… — Alastair Reynolds Earth 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 End 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 Always 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 Ahead 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 Synthetic Copy Share Image
I had an artistic streak and was good at painting and drawing and also very good at English, but I did want… — Alastair Reynolds Art Copy Share Image
Above all else, 'Doctor Who' still seems to me to offer near-infinite scope for the writer. It must be the least constraining… — Alastair Reynolds Doctor 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 Better 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 Always Copy Share Image
“You've found a way to stay sane, Renfew--even if that means admitting a tiny piece of piano-playing madness into your world. But… — Alastair Reynolds Hope Copy Share Image
Looking at where the planet is now, we could screw things up massively or we could wise-up on a species level and… — Alastair Reynolds Globally Copy Share Image
“Volyova felt as if her brain consisted of a room full of precocious schoolchildren: individually bright, and—if only they would pool themselves—capable… — Alastair Reynolds Education Copy Share Image
“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 Change Copy Share Image
I'm a genre writer - I chose to be one, I ended up one, I still am one, and I'm not writing… — Alastair Reynolds Anything Copy Share Image
I prioritise story over science, but not at the expense of being really stupid about it. — Alastair Reynolds About Copy Share Image
“We have worlds to save, Doctor Aziba.” “That sounds ... compelling,” the physician allowed.” — Alastair Reynolds Doctor Copy Share Image
When I'm working on one book, part of my imagination is thinking ahead to the next one. — Alastair Reynolds Ahead 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
I don't think the computer will win the Booker, but no-one ever expected a computer to beat a chess grandmaster. — Alastair Reynolds Beat 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
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 Books 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
It looked like a biology lesson for gods, or a snapshot of the kind of pornography which might be enjoyed by sentient… — Alastair Reynolds Biology Copy Share Image
I don't like a lot of what's published as hard SF. Much of it is right-wing, reactionary crap. — Alastair Reynolds Crap Copy Share Image
“You didn't weld it shut or anything like that?" "Yes, stupid me, I forgot.” — Alastair Reynolds Forgot Copy Share Image
I couldn't ever write a straight crime novel: there'd be an intrusion of weirdness at some point. — Alastair Reynolds Books 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 Books Copy Share Image
“Such was the nature of obsessions: no quarter given for the human cost.” — Alastair Reynolds Cost Copy Share Image
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
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
