Alastair Reynolds Quotes

United Kingdom, Author
March 13, 1966

Alastair Preston Reynolds (born 13 March 1966) is a British science fiction author. He specialises in hard science fiction and space opera. He spent his early years in Cornwall, moved back to Wales before going to Newcastle University, where he read physics and astronomy. Afterwards, he earned a PhD from the University of St Andrews. In 1991, he moved to Noordwijk in the Netherlands where he met his wife Josette (who is from France). There, he worked for the European Space Research and Technology Centre (part of the European Space Agency) until 2004 when he left to pursue writing full-time.[1] He returned to Wales in 2008 and lives near Cardiff.

Also known as Novelist

'I’m not a bad man, Ilia. I’m just someone who knows exactly what needs to be done.''Like you said, always the most dangerous sort.'

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- Done
- Bad
For someone admitting guilt she sounded remarkably void of repentance.

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- She

'That’s how it went, wasn’t it Zebra?''It might,' she said. 'If I happened to be colluding in your own delusions.'

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- She
'I feel as if I’m missing all the excitement.''In my experience,' Tunguska said, making himself a temporary seat, 'excitement is always better when it happens to other people.'

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Evolution doesn’t greatly care about what happens to creatures once they’ve passed on their genetic heritage.

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'You can hardly blame them.''Assuming stupidity is an inherited trait, then no, I can’t.'

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'Can I still wish you good luck?''You can wish me what the hell you like. It won’t make any difference. If it did, it would mean I hadn’t prepared well enough.

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- Good
- Wish
- Luck
'I thought debate was supposed to be healthy,' she countered.'It is,' Auger replied, 'so long as you don’t disagree with me.'

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- Long
- She

But sanity, Vasko decided, was like the pattern of lights he could see through his cabin window. In almost any direction the only way to travel was into darkness, and there was a lot more darkness than light.

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- Light
- Travel
'Is there anyone or anything in this city which can’t be bought?' I said, slipping him a note.'Yeah,' the man said, laughing quietly. 'But I’m not it.'

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- City
By and large these attempts to rewrite history were not taken seriously, but it was disconcerting to hear that they had gained even a toehold.

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- History
- Taken
It was a numbers game, not a guaranteed method of avoiding being killed, but Clavain had been a soldier long enough to know that this was, ultimately, what most combat situations boiled down to.

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- Long
- Game
- Soldier
I was going to call it a mistake, but you could argue that there are no mistakes in war, only fortunate and less fortunate events.

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- War
- Mistake
Don’t overestimate your familiarity with technologies you barely understand. It could be your undoing.

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And even if what they showed you is true, that doesn’t begin to make it right. The cause might be just, Felka, but history’s littered with atrocities committed in the name of righteousness.

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- History
- True
Afterwards, when Clavain tried to imaging how he might describe it, he found that words were never going to be adequate for the task. And that was no surprise: evolution had shaped language to convey many concepts, but going from a single to a networked topology of self was not amongst them.

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- Words
- Single
War does strange things to truth.

Alastair Reynolds
- Truth
- War
Nice girls don’t carry guns.

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- Nice
'I don’t like this at all,' Hegazi said.'Believe me,' Sylveste said, 'you’re about to like it a lot less.'

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- Believe