The idea of a computer winning the Nobel Prize for physics is not too unlikely, citing a computer as joint recipient. It's… — Alastair Reynolds Computers 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
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
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
“Sooner or later everything boils down to trust. You just have to make that leap of faith.” — Alastair Reynolds Faith 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
“I think the deeper we go, the less likelihood we'll have of being recognised as something unwanted. It's like the human body… — Alastair Reynolds Human body Copy Share Image
“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 Summer Night Copy Share Image
Nightside, cities glistened in chains, and a spray of tinkertoy habitats girdled the planet. Gossamer starbridges reached from the equator towards orbit. — Alastair Reynolds Chains Copy Share Image
I've never had much interest in spinoffery - the idea of writing in someone else's universe generally leaves me cold - but… — Alastair Reynolds Black and white Copy Share Image
I just start writing, and in the process, one hopefully comes up with ideas and solutions and explores all the little nooks… — Alastair Reynolds Ideas Copy Share Image
“I thought we were better then this." "We're human. Be thankful we've moved on from clubbing each other's brains out every five… — 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
Science fiction can be very relevant, could be good literature. — Alastair Reynolds Books Copy Share Image
“There was something heartbreakingly beautiful about the lights of distant ships, I thought. It was something that touched both on human achievement… — Alastair Reynolds Achievement Copy Share Image
“Mathematics is a terrible calling. It’s as merciless as gravity. It swallows the soul. There’s a point near a black hole called… — Alastair Reynolds Black hole Copy Share Image
It's a novel experience to have one of my books read by a reading group. — Alastair Reynolds Book Copy Share Image
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 Eight Copy Share Image
Don't keep rewriting and polishing something if it isn't setting the world on fire: start something new instead and consider the earlier… — Alastair Reynolds Experience Copy Share Image
“Consider all the inanimate matter in the universe, all the dumb atoms, all the mindless molecules, all the oblivious dust grains and… — Alastair Reynolds Astronomy 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 intelligence 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
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 Stupidity Copy Share Image
