“I was born in a house with a million rooms, built on a small, airless world on the edge of an empire… — Alastair Reynolds Business Copy Share Image
“My people are impressing on Tulwar's people the wisdom of surrender and a rapid shift of allegiance. I'm counting on most them… — Alastair Reynolds Good thing Copy Share Image
I really struggle to pinpoint whether I became a scientist because I like science fiction, or did I gravitate to science fiction… — Alastair Reynolds Fiction 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
“I knew that the swallower was just a little knot of matter, squashed so tight that even its own light couldn’t break… — Alastair Reynolds Break free Copy Share Image
You worry that we're becoming monsters. Merlin, we already were monsters. You didn't make us any worse. — Alastair Reynolds Becoming Copy Share Image
“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 Social status 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
I'm not a morning person: I can't function until I've had a coffee - or several. — Alastair Reynolds Coffee Copy Share Image
“To feel oneself so tiny, so fragile, so inherently losable, was at first spiritually crushing. But, by the same token, this realisation… — Alastair Reynolds Human existence Copy Share Image
When you're writing stuff that's already clotted with neologisms and trying to get across fairly abstruse concepts, you're already putting a heavy… — Alastair Reynolds Books Copy Share Image
I'm a wishy-washy 'Guardian' reader, but the last thing I want to do is force a political agenda down people's throats. It's… — Alastair Reynolds Books 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
'Doctor Who' is part of my science fictional DNA. You could take it out of me, and I'd probably still have ended… — Alastair Reynolds Being Copy Share Image
“None of us is a monster, Chiku. We’re all just trying to make the best of our singular natures.” — Alastair Reynolds Monster 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
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
How did you . . . pass the time?’ Sunday asked. ‘You couldn’t just ching out of it, could you?’ ‘We had… — Alastair Reynolds Different 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
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
“An idea so dangerous it can’t be discussed. I thought we buried all that nonsense back in the Dark Ages.” — Alastair Reynolds Dark ages Copy Share Image
“I saw immediately what they were: human technology that had become haunted, possessed by quick, gleaming cleverness. I had seen smart machines… — Alastair Reynolds Computers Copy Share Image
