Alastair Reynolds Quotes

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Alastair Reynolds

Profession : Author

Birth : March 13, 1966

Why would you need to expand beyond the solar system if you already have access to all the information you need, and you've essentially insulated yourself against a planetary apocalypse? Maybe that's enough.

Alastair Reynolds

I'm just happy to have some American readers - enough that it's a viable proposition for my books to appear there.

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I've always been skeptical of the idea that sentience is going to be an exclusively human attribute.

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Like everyone else, I read newspapers and 'New Scientist' and try to put my finger on the trends which we can just see emerging now that are accelerating and might take off.

Alastair Reynolds

There is so little SF drawn from modern scientific thinking, in any discipline, that I'm much more cheered by the successes than the failures, most of which are forgivable.

Alastair Reynolds

I come at it from a different angle of attack with each novel, searching for the technological texture the story demands. There isn't a recipe; it's more of an instinct.

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I'm still bothered by the threat of nuclear war.

Alastair Reynolds

I'm not a morning person: I can't function until I've had a coffee - or several.

Alastair Reynolds