I'm not massively fond of right-wing nutters or war criminals. — Alastair Reynolds Criminals Copy Share Image
I hope that 'House of Suns' functions as an independent novel. — Alastair Reynolds Books Copy Share Image
“They would continue to live in New Tiamaat, orbiting Crucible.” — Alastair Reynolds Crucible Copy Share Image
I couldn't think of anything more pointless than reading a piece of fiction written by a robot. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Everything depends on everything else, doesn’t it? That’s interconnectivity for you – it’s a bitch.” — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
Victory loses its meaning without the memory of what you've vanquished. — Alastair Reynolds 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
I'm just happy to have some American readers - enough that it's a viable proposition for my books to appear there. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
The cards always look different when it's your turn to play them; loaded with subtly different possibilities. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“I haven’t needed anything big enough from you to justify being pleasant, and I doubt I ever will.” — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
I'm not actually that bothered about the 'science fiction-ness' of 'Doctor Who.' — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Gravity ruled, and gravity did not take into account circumstances, or the unfairness of things, or listen to eleventh-hour petitions before reluctantly… — Alastair Reynolds 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
I come at it from a different angle of attack with each novel, searching for the technological texture the story demands. There… — Alastair Reynolds 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
There is so little SF drawn from modern scientific thinking, in any discipline, that I'm much more cheered by the successes than… — Alastair Reynolds Discipline 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 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 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
“Cyphel knew exactly how he felt about her as well — it was there in her expression whenever they spoke that beguiling… — Alastair Reynolds Haughtiness Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I was reliably informed that we'd have gone to Mars by 1985, and of course it's 2012,… — Alastair Reynolds Adventure Copy Share Image
One of the dangers of science fiction, particularly bad science fiction, is that you have these scenes where the characters turn to… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“All I can say for certain is that, beneath the scrambled chaos of my memories, I feel a driving imperative, a sense… — Alastair Reynolds Life meaning 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'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
“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
“The two men -- Fray and Malkin -- were standing near each other. They were not unarmed. They were quite seriously not… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“No act of knowledge acquisition is entirely without risk.” — Alastair Reynolds Acquisition Copy Share Image
Dreams of warp drives and hyperspace are just that - dreams. — Alastair Reynolds Dream 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 Copy Share Image
One of the big breakthroughs I had as a writer was when I stopped agonising over every word. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
I've always been attracted to Pertwee's portrayal of the Doctor as dashing man-of-science, charming, sceptical, and rational. — Alastair Reynolds 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
“You look older, son.” “Yes, well, some of us have to get on with the business of being alive in the entropic… — Alastair Reynolds Business Copy Share Image
Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
