Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another. — Alastair Reynolds 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
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
When I look back at many of the moments of wonder, awe, or terror that I've got from science fiction, it's often… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
Speaking for myself, I really struggle to pinpoint whether I became a scientist because I like science fiction, or did I gravitate… — Alastair Reynolds Fiction Copy Share Image
Daleks scared the hell out of me, to the point where I wouldn't go round to another boy's house because he had… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
In crime, I like Ian Rankin and James Lee Burke. As for historical books, I enjoy Bernard Cornwell, Patrick O'Brien, and C.… — Alastair Reynolds 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
“Arethusa liked to call us Poseidon’s Children. Orphans of the storm. We’d endured the worst the world could throw at us, the… — Alastair Reynolds Children Copy Share Image
“Do you have to sound so damned indifferent to it all? Here we are talking about how we're likely to be dead… — Alastair Reynolds Death Copy Share Image
“I don't know." That was typical Sajaki; like all the genuinely clever people Sylveste had met he knew better than to feign… — Alastair Reynolds 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
What works for me is simply to read a lot of stuff throughout the year - not with a particular story or… — Alastair Reynolds Books 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
“Niagara made a careful gesture, like some religious benediction: a diagonal slice across his chest and a stab to the heart. ‘A… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“I am Chiku Akinya. I am the daughter of Sunday Akinya; I am the grand-daughter of Eunice Akinya – Senge Dongma, the… — Alastair Reynolds Children Copy Share Image
The one thing that really terrifies me is we're going to get a signal from space that clears it all up: 'OK,… — Alastair Reynolds 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
My early memories of 'Who' are clouded by time and confused by repeats and reissues. I have no direct recollection of the… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be "a writer"; I only ever aspired to be an science fiction writer. They'll tear that badge out… — Alastair Reynolds Cold Copy Share Image
I always say that keeping abreast of science should never be seen as a chore. It should be something you do naturally.… — Alastair Reynolds Ideas 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
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'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
“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 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
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 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
Science fiction writers aren't short of ideas. You can read a book, and it sets off a chain of thought processes, so… — Alastair Reynolds Books 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
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 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
“if human beings really grasped how synthetic their world was - how much of it was stitched together not from direct perception,… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“There has been much debate on the matter, but the present state of understanding is that no useful information can ever emerge… — Alastair Reynolds Black hole Copy Share Image
Most of the time, when I get an idea that hinges on some science 'thing,' it will have been because of something… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
