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Half of all the great art and literature in existence went unrecognised during the lifetimes of its creators. — Alastair Reynolds

Having created these cognitively enhanced creatures, the safest option at the time appeared to be to launch them into interstellar space. — Alastair Reynolds

I thought we were better then this."
"We're human. Be thankful we've moved on from clubbing each other's brains out every five minutes. — Alastair Reynolds

None of us is a monster, Chiku. We're all just trying to make the best of our singular natures. — Alastair Reynolds

Life was a very odd thing indeed, he reflected, when you really thought about it. — Alastair Reynolds

You worry that we're becoming monsters. Merlin, we already were monsters. You didn't make us any worse. — Alastair Reynolds

But the trouble with simulations is that they put up with far too much shit. — Alastair Reynolds

Nonetheless, we offer our forgiveness. What is the point in being a superior civilisation if you can't do that once in a while? I — Alastair Reynolds

Given up, Khouri? It's not in my dictionary. — Alastair Reynolds

Can we drop the 'artificial intelligence'? It's a bit like me calling you a meat-based processing system. — Alastair Reynolds

Adapt and survive. Make do and mend. These were good mottos for a time traveller. — Alastair Reynolds

It was an exceedingly odd thing to see an elephant in a spacesuit. — Alastair Reynolds

But beyond a certain scale vast was simply vast. — Alastair Reynolds

All I do know is that in six hours I could be suffering from acute existence failure. — Alastair Reynolds

A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy. — Alastair Reynolds

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. — Alastair Reynolds

I'm not a morning person: I can't function until I've had a coffee - or several. — Alastair Reynolds

History is what we write, not what we remember. Why should we tarnish the memory of our planet by enshrining our less then noble deeds? — Alastair Reynolds

It looked like a biology lesson for gods, or a snapshot of the kind of pornography which might be enjoyed by sentient planets. — Alastair Reynolds

There was a moment of absolute cosmic cold, as if a billion tiny doors had opened in every cell of his body, letting in the draught of creation. — Alastair Reynolds

Even monsters are beautiful. — Alastair Reynolds

Such was the nature of obsessions: no quarter given for the human cost. — Alastair Reynolds

But a constant, low-level background of crime may help a society become more robust, more resilient. — Alastair Reynolds

First rule of complex systems," I said. "You can't tell friends from enemies. — Alastair Reynolds

I'll argue to the death against stupid legislation, but some rules exist for a reason. — Alastair Reynolds

Quantum reality is a nest of snakes, Clavain, and we are already poking it with a very sharp stick. — Alastair Reynolds

That,' Peregrine said, 'is civilisation. Not all who were rewarded deserved to be; not all who should have been were. — Alastair Reynolds

Across the land, the semaphore towers stood deathly still. — Alastair Reynolds

He was a thin, elegant-looking man with precise symmetrical features and the hushed, disapproving manner of a senior librarian. — Alastair Reynolds

I live each day as it comes." "It's the only way. Pedro — Alastair Reynolds

Where no man has gone before - who said that - William Shakespeare?"
"I've no idea. — Alastair Reynolds

Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another. — Alastair Reynolds

Nothing endures, except nothing itself. — Alastair Reynolds

It's not how far you've come that matters. It's where you've come from. — Alastair Reynolds

The trouble with the dead, Triumvir Ilia Volyova thought, was that they had no real idea when to shut up. — Alastair Reynolds

This is life. It's not a dress rehearsal. If we don't do this now, we may as well start planning our own funerals. — Alastair Reynolds

Everyone has their fulcrum, Chiku. You can bend anyone to any cause with the right timing. — Alastair Reynolds

Without risk in our lives, we're scarcely better than machines ourselves. — Alastair Reynolds

To be remembered at all is an achievement of sorts. — Alastair Reynolds

Sooner or later everything boils down to trust. You just have to make that leap of faith. — Alastair Reynolds

They would continue to live in New Tiamaat, orbiting Crucible. — Alastair Reynolds

I'm not massively fond of right-wing nutters or war criminals. — Alastair Reynolds

One of the big breakthroughs I had as a writer was when I stopped agonising over every word. — Alastair Reynolds

Masai and elephants. The rest is dust. — Alastair Reynolds

Enjoy it, kid. Enjoy feeling that you can make a difference.' Floyd flashed him a smile. 'It won't last for ever. — Alastair Reynolds

It's an ancient technique known as lying, Khouri. — Alastair Reynolds

Wind snapped at me, warm and fragrant. The atmosphere was thick with pollen and micro-organisms, goading my body's ancient defences. — Alastair Reynolds

It was one of the oldest tricks of mob-management: give them a hate figure. The — Alastair Reynolds

I prioritise story over science, but not at the expense of being really stupid about it. — Alastair Reynolds

Humanity is an assemblage of information-processing entities, and in that regard you have potential. — Alastair Reynolds

Still, it was vision, or at least vision's idiot cousin. — Alastair Reynolds

Weyl curvature tensor ... but consciousness was no — Alastair Reynolds

The first six million years had been all fun and games. — Alastair Reynolds

I am not cruel," he said. "Not in the sense you mean. But cruelty is a useful tool if one can only recognise the precise moment when it must be used. — Alastair Reynolds

Behold the wedding gun,' the Ordinator said, holding the box aloft. — Alastair Reynolds

Life is precious. Infinitely so. Perhaps it takes a machine intelligence to appreciate that."
~"Understanding Space & Time — Alastair Reynolds

Well," she said, "I see it hasn't got a fuck of a lot better since I was away. — Alastair Reynolds

Clavain was looking at a hyperpig: a genetic chimera of pig and human. — Alastair Reynolds

It was a mansion of ghosts and monsters, with ghouls in the shadows and demons scuttling behind the wainscotting. — Alastair Reynolds

We should have brought a torch," he was saying. "We have been to Saturn and back and we didn't bring a torch. — Alastair Reynolds

The next time you need a piece of apparently obscure information, try asking a science fiction writer. You might be surprised. — Alastair Reynolds

You look older, son." "Yes, well, some of us have to get on with the business of being alive in the entropic universe. — Alastair Reynolds

You didn't weld it shut or anything like that?"
"Yes, stupid me, I forgot. — Alastair Reynolds

I'm always serious about my fun. I — Alastair Reynolds

An idea so dangerous it can't be discussed. I thought we buried all that nonsense back in the Dark Ages. — Alastair Reynolds

Some promises are best broken. Trust me on this: I'm a politician. — Alastair Reynolds

I think I've reduced the amount of blood in my caffeine system to an acceptable level. — Alastair Reynolds

At best noise, at worse a potentially damaging input. — Alastair Reynolds

As the old saying went, the Manhattan Project wasn't built in a day. Or was that Rome? Something to do with Earth, anyway. — Alastair Reynolds

It's called optimism - but I'm losing the hang of it fast. — Alastair Reynolds

Everything ends,' the Master said. 'That's the beauty of it. — Alastair Reynolds

Nothing had ever existed between us except the possibility of something, and now even that was over. — Alastair Reynolds

Rise to the occasion. Roar like a lion. — Alastair Reynolds

We all have it in us to be something other than what we are, I thought, but we don't often get a glimpse of what we could have been — Alastair Reynolds

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

Victory loses its meaning without the memory of what you've vanquished. — Alastair Reynolds

Surely you can hear him now? — Alastair Reynolds

I am playing in a playground that's already been played in. I am always aware that a lot of the furniture in science fiction is second hand. — Alastair Reynolds

It's one thing to be given a big boxful of theory and quite another to make an engine out of it. — Alastair Reynolds

The cards always look different when it's your turn to play them; loaded with subtly different possibilities. — Alastair Reynolds

We have worlds to save, Doctor Aziba."
"That sounds ... compelling," the physician allowed. — Alastair Reynolds

It is always better to try and fail than not to try. — Alastair Reynolds

I couldn't ever write a straight crime novel: there'd be an intrusion of weirdness at some point. — Alastair Reynolds

And the knowledge that humanity was not alone in the universe would be as relevant to most as the knowledge that protons were built of quarks. — Alastair Reynolds

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

Weapons readiness?" "Nominal," Dalal — Alastair Reynolds