Alastair Reynolds Quotes

I hope that 'House of Suns' functions as an independent novel.

Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable.

I've always loved far future SF, so it was more or less a given that I would one day want to write in that form.

We live in a science fiction universe. We have done for a long time.

I'm a big fan of science fiction, animation, and things of that nature. Other worlds and that type of stuff.

When you grow up in science fiction you grow up in everything! It's the greatest and only field worth growing up in. It's the total field.

I like sci-fi.

Lots of science fiction deals with distant times and places. Intrepid prospectors in the Asteroid Belt. Interstellar epics. Galactic empires. Trips to the remote past or future.

'Interstellar' is a thematic sequel to Christopher Nolan's last original film, 'Inception'. It drops us into a dark future full of otherworldly landscapes and time distortions.

What kind of hard SF do I write? Everything from near-future, Earth-centric techno-thrillers to far-future, far-flung interstellar epics.

I want to do science fiction with dark stories.

I loved literary science fiction. In fact, as a kid, when I was reading science fiction, I thought 'I can't wait for the future when the special effects are good' to represent what was in these books by Arthur C. Clarke, Alfred Bester, Philip K. Dick, J.G. Ballard, Jack Vance.

Moving cities are a fairly hoary old sci-fi trope - I seem to recall they were always cropping up on 'Doctor Who' when I was young, though I may be misremembering.

'Intelligent Life' is kind of a companion piece to 'Safety Not Guaranteed.' Internally, it's a sci-fi romantic thriller.

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

I was always fascinated by science-fiction shows, shows like 'Star Trek' and 'Lost in Space.'

Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense.

Science fiction is my way of pushing the imagination onward. It's a way to understand how the world will look in the future.

I've always been a fan of science fiction.

Science fiction has always used metaphors and disguises, talking about alien civilizations or the future.

'2001: A Space Odyssey' is a movie that really impressed me as a teenager. And also 'Blade Runner.' And 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' is also one of my favorites. I'm always looking for sci-fi material, and it's difficult to find original and strong material that's not just about weaponry.

When I first started, my novels were set in the far future.

I do like sci-fi, absolutely. I've watched everything from 'Star Trek' to 'Star Wars' to 'Terminator' - the list goes on and on.

'2001' is a really interesting movie because it came out in 1968, and everybody thought that that was possible, and look how ridiculous that was. We don't have ships like that, and you know, nobody in 1968 was going, 'Oh, that'll never happen!' But of course it never happened. We're not even close to it.