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Alastair Reynolds

Doctor Who’ is part of my science fictional DNA. You could take it out of me, and I’d probably still have ended up being a writer, but almost certainly not the same one.

– Alastair Reynolds

Alastair Reynolds

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

– Alastair Reynolds

Alastair Reynolds

I watched ‘Who’ with a mixture of affection and exasperation through the eighties, always ready to cheer on the Doctor but seldom feeling that the series was playing to its strengths. Some of the adventures, revisited on DVD, turn out to be better than I remembered – others just as infuriating.

– Alastair Reynolds

Alastair Reynolds

I couldn’t ever write a straight crime novel: there’d be an intrusion of weirdness at some point.

– Alastair Reynolds

Alastair Reynolds

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.

– Alastair Reynolds

Alastair Reynolds

One of the big breakthroughs I had as a writer was when I stopped agonising over every word.

– Alastair Reynolds

Alastair Reynolds

I despair of reality television, but I’ve never met anyone who watches it. Or people say, ‘I watch it, but I hate it.’ I’ve never met anyone who loves it. It’s like, it’s there, and we have to accept it.

– Alastair Reynolds

Alastair Reynolds

Don’t keep rewriting and polishing something if it isn’t setting the world on fire: start something new instead and consider the earlier story a learning experience.

– Alastair Reynolds

Alastair Reynolds

In the ‘Revelation Space’ books, the spaceships are a bit old and rusty, and things go wrong, and they don’t work quite how they’re meant to. And people asked why I did it this way, and groping around for an explanation, I said that I grew up in Barry, this post-industrial sea town full of rusting infrastructure.

– Alastair Reynolds

Alastair Reynolds

I always say that keeping abreast of science should never be seen as a chore. It should be something you do naturally. I don’t sit there reading ‘New Scientist,’ putting post-it notes next to ideas.

– Alastair Reynolds

Alastair Reynolds

I think I set myself on a course to become a scientist around about the time that Carl Sagan’s ‘Cosmos’ series was on television, and there really was no going back for me at that point, and then I went on to study space science and then get my Ph.D., then go aboard and work in the European Space Agency.

– Alastair Reynolds

Alastair Reynolds

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

– Alastair Reynolds

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