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Alastair Reynolds

I’m not a morning person: I can’t function until I’ve had a coffee – or several.

Coffee, Person, Until

Alastair Reynolds

You worry that we’re becoming monsters. Merlin, we already were monsters. You didn’t make us any worse.

Alastair Reynolds

For a moment I think we were turned into information, and that in that instant we were linked to every other piece of information ever known; every thought ever thought, or at least ever captured by the light.

all-beings, information, singularity

Alastair Reynolds

I don’t know.” That was typical Sajaki; like all the genuinely clever people Sylveste had met he knew better than to feign understanding where none existed.

cleverness, ignorance, knowledge-wisdom, not-knowing

Alastair Reynolds

There was something heartbreakingly beautiful about the lights of distant ships, I thought. It was something that touched both on human achievement and the vastness against which those achievements seemed so frail. It was the same thing whether the lights belonged to a caravel battling the swell on a stormy horizon or a diamond-hulled starship which had just sliced its way through interstellar space.

achievement, existential, human, ships, space

Alastair Reynolds

To see something marvellous with your own eyes – that’s wonderful enough. But when two of you see it, two of you together, holding hands, holding each other close, knowing that you’ll both have that memory for the rest of your lives, but that each of you will only ever hold an incomplete half of it, and that it won’t ever really exist as a whole until you’re together, talking or thinking about that moment … that’s worth more than one plus one. It’s worth four, or eight, or some number so large we can’t even imagine it.

Alastair Reynolds

It’s not how far you’ve come that matters. It’s where you’ve come from.

destination, personal-journey, travel

Alastair Reynolds

You don’t usually think of boredom as something similar to pain. That’s because you’ve only been exposed to it in relatively small doses. You don’t know its true colour. The difference between the boredom you know and the boredom I know is like the difference between touching snow and putting your hand in a vat of liquid nitrogen.

Alastair Reynolds

There’s such a thing as free will, Tanner. You didn’t have to go along with me, unless you want to admit your brain is ruled by your dick. And I didn’t get the impression you regretted any of that.

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

sci-fi, science-opera

Alastair Reynolds

Mathematics is a terrible calling. It’s as merciless as gravity. It swallows the soul. There’s a point near a black hole called the last stable orbit. Once you drop below that radius, no force in the universe can stop you falling all the way in. That’s what happened to your mother – she swam too close to theory, fell below the last stable orbit.

Alastair Reynolds

Enjoy it, kid. Enjoy feeling that you can make a difference.’ Floyd flashed him a smile. ‘It won’t last for ever.

feeling, making-a-difference