Quotes About Alastair Reynolds

I'm not actually that bothered about the 'science fiction-ness' of 'Doctor Who.'

Humanity is an assemblage of information-processing entities, and in that regard you have potential.

Behold the wedding gun,' the Ordinator said, holding the box aloft.

Volyova did not like planets at the best of times, and gas giants struck her as an unreasonable affront to human scale and frailty. In that respect, they were almost as bad as stars.

Might you show me how to project a schematic of the entire inner solar system? I appear to be unable to zoom out from the immediate neighbourhood of Paladin." "Access that sub-menu, then select the logarithmic scale factor," Nissa said. "Thank you—I should have seen that." The

You always do, Mister Ness, and it's to your credit. As are your daughters. Fine specimens, both. It's been my pleasure and my privilege to have seen them through their development." He carried on with the humming, and started digging his short, fat fingers into his pocket. "Would you like a …

Clavain was looking at a hyperpig: a genetic chimera of pig and human.

Calvin raised his fingers in lazy acknowledgement. "So . . ." he said. "The shit's about to match coordinates with the fan.

Fescue poured the remains of his wine into my ocean. "Until then we need a degree of focus." "Focus yourself," I said, turning away.

Must you respect a man to be in his service?" "No," he answered carefully. "But since it helps to be paid, you must respect the fullness of his pockets.

Life is precious. Infinitely so. Perhaps it takes a machine intelligence to appreciate that. ~Understanding Space & Time

A lot of science fiction is very accessible and very readable, but a lot of people are justifiably put off by the covers of spaceships - though that never put me off.

I always like Iain Banks science fiction stuff and William Gibson's cyberpunk stuff from the 1980s.

It's a novel experience to have one of my books read by a reading group.

The first time I read a crime novel - I think it may have been an Elmore Leonard book - it took some time for me to realise how the genre worked. There were about 20 characters on the first page, and I wasn't used to this. I started to enjoy it when I saw that was how crime books worked.

I was really impressed by '2312.'

I couldn't think of anything more pointless than reading a piece of fiction written by a robot.

In crime, I like Ian Rankin and James Lee Burke. As for historical books, I enjoy Bernard Cornwell, Patrick O'Brien, and C. S. Forester - anything with battleships!

It's true that my stories seem to deal with the end of the world. I've often been called the high priest of gothic miserablism, which is slightly unfair.

I hope that 'House of Suns' functions as an independent novel.

I think the danger with using the term 'trilogy' is that it sets up particular expectations in the reader's mind.