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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.

~Alastair Reynolds

Topics: Around Asked Barry Bit Books Did Explanation Full Go Grew How Infrastructure Meant Old People Quite Revelation Rusty Said Sea Space Things Town Up Way Why Work Wrong

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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.

~Alastair Reynolds

Topics: American Appear Books Enough Happy Just Proposition Readers Some Viable

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I'm a genre writer - I chose to be one, I ended up one, I still am one, and I'm not writing transgressive, genre-blurring fiction. I write 'core SF' - it may occasionally incorporate horror or noir tropes, but it's not pretending to be anything other than what it is.

~Alastair Reynolds

Topics: Am Anything Chose Core Ended Fiction Genre Horror Incorporate May Noir Occasionally Other Pretending Still Than Up Write Writer Writing I Write Sf

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You can't underestimate the importance of cover art.

~Alastair Reynolds

Topics: Art Cover Importance Underestimate You

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It's not healthy to obsess over every data point, every review or reader comment. I think the first few times you see someone writing about you, you have this massive emotional response to it. But after a while, it all just fades into the background noise.

~Alastair Reynolds

Topics: About After Background Comment Data Emotional Every Fades Few First Healthy Just Massive Noise Obsess Over Point Reader Response Review See Someone Think Times While Writing You I Think

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No idea should be discarded completely, but - as one might imagine - it does take a degree of ingenuity to find a new spin on something as hackneyed as the 'Adam and Eve' story. But if you think you've got the chops for it, there's no reason not to try.

~Alastair Reynolds

Topics: Adam Adam And Eve Chops Degree Discarded Does Eve Find Got Idea Imagine Ingenuity Might New No Idea No Reason Reason Should Something Spin Story Take Think Try You

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Ideas have a certain gestation period that can't be forced.

~Alastair Reynolds

Topics: Certain Forced Ideas Period

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Don't keep rewriting and polishing something if it isn't setting the world on fire: start something new instead and consider the earlier story a learning experience.

~Alastair Reynolds

Topics: Consider Earlier Experience Fire Instead Keep Learning Learning Experience New Rewriting Setting Something Something New Start Story World

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In some respects, big ideas can be a bit too big for a short story - especially if you've only got a couple of thousand words to play with, and you need room for other stuff, like character, description.

~Alastair Reynolds

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: March 13th, 1966

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