British - Author | March 13, 1966 -
I used to be a strong believer that we would eventually colonize the solar system the way it's been done in science fiction many, many times: bases on the moon, Mars colonized, move out to the outer planets, then we go to the next solar system and build a colony there. I don't know now - I'm not as convinced that's the way it's going to pan out.
Alastair Reynolds
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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.
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I've always been skeptical of the idea that sentience is going to be an exclusively human attribute.
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If you do a certain amount of work every day, it will eventually become a novel.
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I don't like a lot of what's published as hard SF. Much of it is right-wing, reactionary crap.
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As an SF writer, you've got the infinite toolkit of the writer at your disposal.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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When I was writing 'House Of Suns,' there were a few writers I had in mind as role models, the main being Gene Wolfe.
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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.
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I'm just happy to have some American readers - enough that it's a viable proposition for my books to appear there.
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