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Alastair Reynolds
Alastair Reynolds
British Author
Born: Mar 13, 1966
Always Fiction Me Science Think You
Related authors: Dorothy L. Sayers George Eliot George Orwell Ian Fleming James Allen Marcus Buckingham Neil Gaiman Virginia Woolf
I'm not a morning person: I can't function until I've had a coffee - or several. Alastair Reynolds
Morning Coffee Several Morning Person Had Until Person Function
We live in a science fictional world with things like cloning and face transplants, and things seem to be getting stranger and stranger. Alastair Reynolds
Science World Face Live Seem Like Cloning Getting Fictional Stranger Things
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 burden on the reader. Alastair Reynolds
You Writing Burden Putting Stuff Concepts Fairly Reader Get Trying Heavy Heavy Burden Across
One of the big breakthroughs I had as a writer was when I stopped agonising over every word. Alastair Reynolds
Word Big Every Writer Had Over Stopped Breakthroughs
I couldn't ever write a straight crime novel: there'd be an intrusion of weirdness at some point. Alastair Reynolds
Crime Intrusion Some Point Write Weirdness Straight Novel Ever
I'm not massively fond of right-wing nutters or war criminals. Alastair Reynolds
War Criminals Right-Wing Fond Massively
To be remembered at all is an achievement of sorts. Alastair Reynolds
Achievement Remembered Sort
I prioritise story over science, but not at the expense of being really stupid about it. Alastair Reynolds
Science Stupid About Over Expense Being Story Really
I'm fascinated by steam engines and with Victorian engineering generally, and as a corollary to that, I'm fascinated by the idea of long-lived technologies. Alastair Reynolds
Engineering Corollary Steam Generally Idea Victorian Engines Fascinated Technologies
I don't know why, but American sci-fi writers seem to focus on the near-future, which has given us Brits a clear run at the most fascinating. Alastair Reynolds
Focus Brits Run Seem Given Writers Clear Know Most Sci-Fi American Which Us Fascinating Why
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. Alastair Reynolds
World Unfair Slightly High Seem Priest True Deal Gothic Been End End Of The World Often Stories Which
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 not central to my work, unlike, say, China Mieville, who's very politicised. Alastair Reynolds
Work People Political Guardian Down Unlike Say Throats Force Reader Political Agenda Very Want Central China Agenda Thing Last
I always like Iain Banks science fiction stuff and William Gibson's cyberpunk stuff from the 1980s. Alastair Reynolds
Science William Gibson Stuff Like Science Fiction Always Fiction Banks
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
Time Me Book Crime First Enjoy Think Took Books Saw Characters Some About Genre Read First Time How Were Been May Realise Worked Page Used Novel Started
There are similarities between historical novels and science fiction. Being thrown into the Napoleonic Wars is just as much of a different world as space. Alastair Reynolds
Science World Space Similarities Thrown Between Science Fiction Historical Just Just As Much Being Different Fiction Much Wars Novels Different World
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! Alastair Reynolds
Crime Enjoy Books Bernard Like Lee Historical James Anything
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
Try Else Everyone Everyone Else Trends See Finger Emerging Take Put New Like Accelerate Read Scientist Off Just Which Might Newspapers Now
Sitting here at the beginning of the 21st century, we're only 200 years into the industrial revolution. We don't have an enormous dataset to draw on, so whatever shaped curve we're on, we're only at the beginning of it. Alastair Reynolds
Beginning Revolution Whatever Enormous Draw Only Shaped Industrial Industrial Revolution Years Sitting Curve Century Here
You have to be able to invest in your own creations, to suspend your own disbelief in order to be able to write them. We all have to draw the line somewhere. Alastair Reynolds
You Somewhere Own Draw Able Invest Write Disbelief Line Suspend Order Them Creations Your
What works for me is simply to read a lot of stuff throughout the year - not with a particular story or theme in mind, but just because you never know what might be useful or interesting in the long run. I much prefer to just absorb a lot of stuff and let the old unconscious chew down on it over time. Alastair Reynolds
Time Me You Old Mind Long Year Down Run Throughout Long Run Never Unconscious Absorb Simply Stuff Over Particular Know Read Because Chew Lot Just Just Because Story Interesting Prefer Might Theme Much Useful Works
Most of the time, when I get an idea that hinges on some science 'thing,' it will have been because of something I read or encountered months or years earlier rather than in the last few days. Alastair Reynolds
Time Science Will Few Months Some Something Rather Idea Days Most Read Because Hinges Been Years Encountered Than Get Thing Earlier Last
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
Discipline Thinking Drawn More Failures Most Scientific Than Modern Any Which Little Much Successes
There is enough material in the Kuiper Belt to build anything out there. We could gobble up all the little asteroids, filtering out all the volatile materials, leaving us with bits of rock and using that to make some incredible structures. Alastair Reynolds
Build Enough Filtering Incredible Bits Out Some Structures Could Volatile Make Rock Material Leaving Materials Up Anything Little Us Using Belt
Dreams of warp drives and hyperspace are just that - dreams. Alastair Reynolds
Dreams Drives Just Warp
From apparently superluminal radio sources in deep space, to the neutrinos that were supposed to be arriving ahead of schedule at the Grand Sasso experiment in Italy, every apparent exception to Einstein's ultimate speed law has turned out to be a phantom. Alastair Reynolds
Law Space Experiment Every Speed Out Schedule Exception Supposed Were Arriving Ultimate Sources Italy Einstein Grand Turned Apparent Apparently Radio Deep Deep Space Phantom
It's a novel experience to have one of my books read by a reading group. Alastair Reynolds
Experience Reading Group Books Read Novel
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