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Alastair Reynolds je velšský autor science fiction. Specializuje se hlavně na space opery a hard science fiction.

Raná léta svého života strávil v Cornwallu, poté se vrátil zpátky do Walesu, kde na univerzitě v Newcastlu absolvoval fyziku a astronomii. Po získání doktorátu na skotské univerzitě St. Andrews roku 1991 se odstěhoval do Nizozemska, kde potkal svou partnerku Josette. Následovalo zhruba dvacet let vědecké práce jako astrofyzik – z toho deset let pro Evropskou kosmickou agenturu. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. březen 1966
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“Evolution doesn’t greatly care about what happens to creatures once they’ve passed on their genetic heritage.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Chasm City

Zdroj: Chasm City (2001), Chapter 20 (p. 332).

““I’m not a bad man, Ilia. I’m just someone who knows exactly what needs to be done.”
“Like you said, always the most dangerous sort.””

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Redemption Ark

Zdroj: Redemption Ark (2002), Chapter 33 (p. 611)

“You are that rarest of creatures: a man with the wisdom to see beyond his own time.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha The Prefect

Zdroj: The Prefect (2007), Chapter 10 (p. 125)

“Pretty smart piece of thinkware by all accounts: full Turing compliance; about as clever as you can make a machine before you have to start giving it human rights.”

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Alastair Reynolds

Nightingale (p. 277)
Short fiction, Galactic North (2006)

“It was a glaring omission, a sign of cosmic sloppiness. Not even that, Vasko corrected himself. It was a sign of cosmic obliviousness. The universe didn’t know what was happening here. It didn’t know and it didn’t care. It didn’t even know that it didn’t know.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Absolution Gap

Zdroj: Absolution Gap (2003), Chapter 39 (p. 627)

“Until recently we were a trio. Before that, a quartet. Perhaps it’s just me, but I’m beginning to detect a trend.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Century Rain

Zdroj: Century Rain (2004), Chapter 1 (p. 1)

““A splendidly inept thing,” Sylveste said, nodding despite himself.
“What?”
“The human capacity for grief. It just isn’t capable of providing an adequate emotional response once the dead exceed a few dozen in number. And it doesn’t just level off—it just gives up, resets itself to zero. Admit it. None of us feel a damn about these people.””

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Revelation Space

Zdroj: Revelation Space (2000), Chapter 15 (p. 323).

“Don’t overestimate your familiarity with technologies you barely understand. It could be your undoing.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Redemption Ark

Zdroj: Redemption Ark (2002), Chapter 30 (p. 565)

““I’m just saying… we can’t trust them. We’ve never been able to trust them. That’s always been a cornerstone of our operational policy.”
“Then maybe it’s time we got a new cornerstone. They’re people, Lillian. They might be people who make us uncomfortable, people with very different values from ours, but when we’re facing local extinction at the hands of a genocidal machine intelligence, I don’t think the differences between us look massively significant, do you?””

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Alastair Reynolds kniha The Prefect

Zdroj: The Prefect (2007), Chapter 28 (p. 472)

“She must have walked through life with men like him falling at her feet, squashing them underfoot like autumn leaves. It probably happened so often that all she noticed was that nice crunching sound.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Century Rain

Zdroj: Century Rain (2004), Chapter 21 (p. 357)

“There’s a catch,” Skellsgard said.
“Another one? But of course there is. You know, I’m thinking I should start a collection.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Century Rain

Zdroj: Century Rain (2004), Chapter 11 (p. 171)

“The Fascists got what they deserved,” Floyd said.
“My husband lived long enough to see those monsters come to come to power. He saw through their lies and promises, but he also knew that they spoke to something nasty and squalid in the human spirit. Something in all of us. We want to hate those who are not like us. All we need is an excuse, a whisper in the ear.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Century Rain

Zdroj: Century Rain (2004), Chapter 9 (p. 135)

“You seem upset by the fact that we’re hated and feared. It does give one pause for thought.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Redemption Ark

Zdroj: Redemption Ark (2002), Chapter 5 (p. 80)

“Volyova did not like planets at the best of times, and gas giants struck her as an unreasonable affront to human scale and frailty. In that respect, they were almost as bad as stars.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Redemption Ark

Zdroj: Redemption Ark (2002), Chapter 11 (p. 206)

“Maybe it’s not as bad as she fears. Old people always think the world is going to ruin. It’s their job. Maybe they’re right, Floyd replied.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Century Rain

Zdroj: Century Rain (2004), Chapter 9 (p. 138)

“I’m fed up with everyone being lied to just because the administration thinks it’s in our best interests not to know all the facts.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Absolution Gap

Zdroj: Absolution Gap (2003), Chapter 25 (p. 378)

““I feel as if I’m missing all the excitement.”
”In my experience,” Tunguska said, making himself a temporary seat, “excitement is always better when it happens to other people.””

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Century Rain

Zdroj: Century Rain (2004), Chapter 36 (p. 561)

“The mere fact that there could be danger in this is fascination in itself; almost an incentive to push further. That’s how you feel, isn’t it? Every argument they could use against you would only strengthen your resolve. Because knowledge makes you hungry, and it’s a hunger you can’t resist, even if you know that what you’re feasting on could kill you.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Revelation Space

Zdroj: Revelation Space (2000), Chapter 26 (p. 452).

“I’ll survive,” Floyd said. “I’m a private detective. If I don’t get clouted on the head at least once a week, I’m not doing my job properly.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Century Rain

Zdroj: Century Rain (2004), Chapter 24 (p. 392)

“That would require an unprecedented leap of faith. I don’t do faith, Scorpio said.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Absolution Gap

Zdroj: Absolution Gap (2003), Chapter 33 (p. 515)

“Maps had never really been his thing, even during his days under Scorpio in Chasm City. There, it had hardly mattered. Blood’s motto had always been that if you needed a map to find your way around a neighbourhood, you were already in trouble.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Absolution Gap

Zdroj: Absolution Gap (2003), Chapter 18 (pp. 255-256)

“Just because something had spawned a myth did not automatically mean it had to contain anything of substance.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Chasm City

Zdroj: Chasm City (2001), Chapter 33 (p. 531).

“I don’t question your loyalty, Skade. I just wonder exactly what it is you’re loyal to.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Redemption Ark

Zdroj: Redemption Ark (2002), Chapter 29 (p. 540)

““I don’t trust you.”
“Of course you don’t. I know I wouldn’t. And I’m not asking you to. I’m not putting you in a situation in which your trust of me is even remotely relevant. I’m just pointing a gun to your head and giving you orders.””

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Chasm City

Zdroj: Chasm City (2001), Chapter 26 (p. 424).

“His parents had abdicated responsibility to an illusion.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Chasm City

Zdroj: Chasm City (2001), Chapter 6 (p. 83).

“There was something about the cocksure confidence of that statement that gave Auger goose pimples. It was like an invitation to fate.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Century Rain

Zdroj: Century Rain (2004), Chapter 40 (p. 599)

“She had almost dared ask, but was perhaps too fearful of hearing something she could not refute.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Revelation Space

Zdroj: Revelation Space (2000), Chapter 23 (p. 424).

“They screwed with democracy. I’m not going to lose much sleep when democracy screws them back.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha The Prefect

Zdroj: The Prefect (2007), Chapter 1 (p. 6)

““Besides—we all know guns don’t kill people, do they?”
“No, it’s the small metal projectiles that generally do the killing,” Cahuella said, smiling.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Chasm City

Zdroj: Chasm City (2001), Chapter 19 (p. 315).

““Can I still wish you good luck?”
“You can wish me what the hell you like. It won’t make any difference. If it did, it would mean I hadn’t prepared well enough.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Redemption Ark

Zdroj: Redemption Ark (2002), Chapter 38 (p. 654)