The one thing that really terrifies me is we’re going to get a signal from space that clears it all up: ‘OK, this is how the universe works, guys.’ Alastair Reynolds Read Quote
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 Read Quote
As an SF writer, you’ve got the infinite toolkit of the writer at your disposal. Alastair Reynolds Read Quote
I don’t like a lot of what’s published as hard SF. Much of it is right-wing, reactionary crap. Alastair Reynolds Read Quote
If you do a certain amount of work every day, it will eventually become a novel. Alastair Reynolds Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
My early memories of ‘Who’ are clouded by time and confused by repeats and reissues. I have no direct recollection of the first two Doctors and none at all of the first season of the Pertwee era. By the last two seasons of the Third Doctor, I was properly hooked. Alastair Reynolds Read Quote
I’m not actually that bothered about the ‘science fiction-ness’ of ‘Doctor Who.’ Alastair Reynolds Read Quote
