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I'm still bothered by the threat of nuclear war.

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We live in a science fictional world with things like cloning and face transplants, and things seem to be getting stranger and stranger.

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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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For me, the distant future and far-off galaxies is where it's at. That's where my imagination can really come out to play.

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Topics: Come Distant Future Galaxies Imagination Me Out Play Really Where

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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.

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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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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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We've had science fiction novels where China is dominant; we've had novels where India is dominant, and I suppose it's all about getting away from that cliched old tired idea that the future belongs to the West.

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I think I set myself on a course to become a scientist around about the time that Carl Sagan's 'Cosmos' series was on television, and there really was no going back for me at that point, and then I went on to study space science and then get my Ph.D., then go aboard and work in the European Space Agency.

~Alastair Reynolds

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I'm always a little bit cautious around invented terminology because so much science fiction is off-putting to the uninitiated. You open up the first page, and it's full of all these made-up words.

~Alastair Reynolds

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: March 13th, 1966

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