“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 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
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 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
“Humanity is an assemblage of information-processing entities, and in that regard you have potential.” — Alastair Reynolds Humanity Copy Share Image
If the Chinese are the first to the asteroids or the first to Mars, good for them, as far as I'm concerned. — Alastair Reynolds Asteroids Copy Share Image
“Life is precious. Infinitely so. Perhaps it takes a machine intelligence to appreciate that." ~"Understanding Space & Time” — Alastair Reynolds Computers 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 Copy Share Image
Why would you need to expand beyond the solar system if you already have access to all the information you need, and… — Alastair Reynolds Apocalypse Copy Share Image
No idea should be discarded completely, but - as one might imagine - it does take a degree of ingenuity to find… — Alastair Reynolds Adam and eve Copy Share Image
There are similarities between historical novels and science fiction. Being thrown into the Napoleonic Wars is just as much of a different… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Dimly--at first wary that it was merely a dislodged fragment of the dream--she remembered Resurgam. And then, slowly, events returned, not as… — Alastair Reynolds Dreams Copy Share Image
I was never strong at maths, but I eventually got onto a university physics/astronomy course, and that led on to my Ph.D.… — Alastair Reynolds Math Copy Share Image
It's not healthy to obsess over every data point, every review or reader comment. I think the first few times you see… — Alastair Reynolds Background noise Copy Share Image
I don't know why, but American sci-fi writers seem to focus on the near-future, which has given us Brits a clear run… — Alastair Reynolds 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 Copy Share Image
“We have made some collective mistakes as a species, it’s true – invested too much power in things we can’t see, let… — Alastair Reynolds Drinking water Copy Share Image
“It’s not the span of time that counts, but what you do with it. While you humans have been grubbing around the… — Alastair Reynolds Existance 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
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
“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
“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
“Everyone has their fulcrum, Chiku. You can bend anyone to any cause with the right timing.” — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
I always like Iain Banks science fiction stuff and William Gibson's cyberpunk stuff from the 1980s. — Alastair Reynolds 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
“Everything depends on everything else, doesn’t it? That’s interconnectivity for you – it’s a bitch.” — Alastair Reynolds 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
Victory loses its meaning without the memory of what you've vanquished. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
You worry that we're becoming monsters. Merlin, we already were monsters. You didn't make us any worse. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
As an SF writer, you've got the infinite toolkit of the writer at your disposal. — 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 haven’t needed anything big enough from you to justify being pleasant, and I doubt I ever will.” — 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'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
It's a novel experience to have one of my books read by a reading group. — Alastair Reynolds Book Copy Share Image
I'm not actually that bothered about the 'science fiction-ness' of 'Doctor Who.' — Alastair Reynolds 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
“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
