“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 Deeper 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
“That didn’t take long,” Trysil said, clenching a fist so that the muscles popped out along her arm. “You know the captain.… — Alastair Reynolds Captain Wants 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… — Alastair Reynolds Acceptance Copy Share Image
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
“Meddling is what we do. It’s what defines us. Meddling gave us fire and tools and civilisation and the keys to the… — Alastair Reynolds Meddling Copy Share Image
The human capacity for grief. It just isn't capable of providing an adequate emotional response once the dead exceed a few dozen… — Alastair Reynolds Adequate 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 21st century 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
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 Change Copy Share Image
“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 Argument Copy Share Image
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 Always Copy Share Image
At one time, the treatment for a certain kind of psychosis had been to push an ice pick up through the orbit… — Alastair Reynolds Brain 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
A lot of science fiction is very accessible and very readable, but a lot of people are justifiably put off by the… — Alastair Reynolds Fiction Copy Share Image
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 Causes Copy Share Image
