Alastair Reynolds Quotes
born 1966 United Kingdom
Alastair Preston Reynolds (born 13 March 1966) is a British science fiction author.
- United Kingdom
- Novelists
- Science fiction authors
- Short story writers
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She was usually caught with her back to us, a distant figure standing on some cliff or high building with one hand on her hip and another shielding her eyes from the sun, lost in the rapture of scale and scenery, drunk on the very idea of being human, a monkey who had hit the big time.
House of Suns (2008)
“And what keeps you going, exactly?”
“Insulting my friends. Making new ones, to compensate for the ones I already insulted just a bit too much. You’d be surprised how much work those activities demand of me—it’s practically a full-time occupation.”
“In fairness, you’re getting very good at it.”
Belladonna Nights and Other Stories (2021)
The universe always feels old, though. That’s a universal truth, a universal fact of life. It felt old for her, already cobwebbed by history. Hard for us to grasp, I know. Human civilisation, it’s just the last scratch on the last scratch on the last scratch, on the last layer of everything. We’re noise. Dirt. We haven’t begun to leave a trace.
Beyond the Aquila Rift (2016)