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’d walked a delicate line with commendable skill.
But sometimes the best case wasn’t good enough.
I’m not on the side of elephants or people, Goma. I’m on the side against stupidity.
“And you do not think that this is possible?”
“I’ll believe in anything when I see evidence for it.”
She had almost dared ask, but was perhaps too fearful of hearing something she could not refute.
“There’s still hope.”
But a small, private voice said: there’s hope, and there’s desperation.
“I’d argue with you, but I suspect it would feel a bit like arguing with myself.”
“Futile?”
“Boring.”
This was a watering hole, and watering holes drew the hungry as well as the parched.
It was one of the oldest tricks of mob-management: give them a hate figure.
It was bad, but it was some other slightly less piquant flavour of bad.
“You weren’t there.”
“I didn’t have to be—I know my history.”
Some people get it. Most people never will.
But that’s art.
Venus was a machine for making bad weather.
I ran an experiment and I got a result. That’s more useful to us than fifty years of theorising.
I don’t question your loyalty, Skade. I just wonder exactly what it is you’re loyal to.
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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alastair Reynolds (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.