British - Author | March 13, 1966 -
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
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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.
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Above all else, 'Doctor Who' still seems to me to offer near-infinite scope for the writer. It must be the least constraining of televisual properties.
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Daleks scared the hell out of me, to the point where I wouldn't go round to another boy's house because he had Dalek wallpaper in his bedroom.
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As a science fiction writer, it's hard to think of a more stirring theme than the origin and ultimate destiny of life in the universe.
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I couldn't think of anything more pointless than reading a piece of fiction written by a robot.
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I don't think the computer will win the Booker, but no-one ever expected a computer to beat a chess grandmaster.
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I've always had ideas for more books than I can write.
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I didn't have a huge amount of security when I was a scientist from one contract to another. You're always thinking, 'Am I going to have a job this time next year?'
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When I'm working on one book, part of my imagination is thinking ahead to the next one.
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Science fiction writers aren't short of ideas. You can read a book, and it sets off a chain of thought processes, so it becomes a response to other people's books.
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A lot of science fiction is very accessible and very readable, but a lot of people are justifiably put off by the covers of spaceships - though that never put me off.
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