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Alastair Reynolds

British Author

Born: Mar 13, 1966

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I've always been attracted to Pertwee's portrayal of the Doctor as dashing man-of-science, charming, sceptical, and rational. Alastair Reynolds

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I had an artistic streak and was good at painting and drawing and also very good at English, but I did want to be a scientist. The education system means you have to choose physics or Shakespeare. It can't be both. 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

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

Hope Independent House Novel Functions

One of the dangers of science fiction, particularly bad science fiction, is that you have these scenes where the characters turn to a blackboard and start explaining how this faster-than-light drive works, or something like that. We never really have those conversations in real life. That's not part of the way we interact as human beings. Alastair Reynolds

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I would much rather we concentrated on the immediate, still-potent dangers, such as nuclear weapons, runaway climate change, and so on. Sort those out, then worry about Hal 9000. Alastair Reynolds

I don't like a lot of what's published as hard SF. Much of it is right-wing, reactionary crap. Alastair Reynolds

Right-Wing Like Reactionary Lot Crap Much Hard Published

As an SF writer, you've got the infinite toolkit of the writer at your disposal. Alastair Reynolds

You Writer Got Infinite Your Disposal

As a kid, I'd buy novels with these magnificent Chris Fosse covers which showed an enormous contraption hovering over a planet, and you'd always think 'Where's that going to come in?' And it never did! It was always slightly disappointing when the contents of a book never lived up to the cover. Alastair Reynolds

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I just start writing, and in the process, one hopefully comes up with ideas and solutions and explores all the little nooks and crannies. Alastair Reynolds

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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

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You can't underestimate the importance of cover art. Alastair Reynolds

Art You Underestimate Importance Cover

It's not healthy to obsess over every data point, every review or reader comment. I think the first few times you see someone writing about you, you have this massive emotional response to it. But after a while, it all just fades into the background noise. Alastair Reynolds

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No idea should be discarded completely, but - as one might imagine - it does take a degree of ingenuity to find a new spin on something as hackneyed as the 'Adam and Eve' story. But if you think you've got the chops for it, there's no reason not to try. Alastair Reynolds

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