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If there's a story I absolutely cannot tell without faster-than-light travel, then I am quite prepared to accept it - even though I don't personally believe it is possible.

~Alastair Reynolds

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I think the danger with using the term 'trilogy' is that it sets up particular expectations in the reader's mind.

~Alastair Reynolds

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I was never strong at maths, but I eventually got onto a university physics/astronomy course, and that led on to my Ph.D. and eventual employment.

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Topics: Course Employment Eventual Eventually Got Led Maths Never Onto Strong University

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I'm fascinated by steam engines and with Victorian engineering generally, and as a corollary to that, I'm fascinated by the idea of long-lived technologies.

~Alastair Reynolds

Topics: Engineering Engines Fascinated Generally Idea Steam Technologies Victorian

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I've never had much interest in spinoffery - the idea of writing in someone else's universe generally leaves me cold - but 'Doctor Who' is different. I've grown up with it. It's been part of my life since I was tiny, watching Jon Pertwee on a grainy black and white television in Cornwall and being terrified out of my mind.

~Alastair Reynolds

Topics: Been Being Black Black And White Cold Cornwall Different Doctor Doctor Who Else Generally Grown Had Idea Interest Jon Leaves Life Me Mind Much My Life Never Out Part Since Someone Television Terrified Tiny Universe Up Watching White Who Writing

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I don't know why, but American sci-fi writers seem to focus on the near-future, which has given us Brits a clear run at the most fascinating.

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Topics: American Brits Clear Fascinating Focus Given Know Most Run Sci-Fi Seem Us Which Why Writers

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It's true that my stories seem to deal with the end of the world. I've often been called the high priest of gothic miserablism, which is slightly unfair.

~Alastair Reynolds

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I'm a wishy-washy 'Guardian' reader, but the last thing I want to do is force a political agenda down people's throats. It's not central to my work, unlike, say, China Mieville, who's very politicised.

~Alastair Reynolds

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I always like Iain Banks science fiction stuff and William Gibson's cyberpunk stuff from the 1980s.

~Alastair Reynolds

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The first time I read a crime novel - I think it may have been an Elmore Leonard book - it took some time for me to realise how the genre worked. There were about 20 characters on the first page, and I wasn't used to this. I started to enjoy it when I saw that was how crime books worked.

~Alastair Reynolds

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: March 13th, 1966

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