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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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““That’s how it went, wasn’t it Zebra?”
“It might,” she said. “If I happened to be colluding in your own delusions.””

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Chasm City

Zdroj: Chasm City (2001), Chapter 29 (p. 479).

““How long have we been friends, Dan?”
“I wouldn’t exactly call it friendship; more a kind of mutual parasitism.””

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Revelation Space

Zdroj: Revelation Space (2000), Chapter 7 (p. 166).

“It was a numbers game, not a guaranteed method of avoiding being killed, but Clavain had been a soldier long enough to know that this was, ultimately, what most combat situations boiled down to.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Redemption Ark

Zdroj: Redemption Ark (2002), Chapter 25 (p. 452)

“I was going to call it a mistake, but you could argue that there are no mistakes in war, only fortunate and less fortunate events.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Revelation Space

Zdroj: Revelation Space (2000), Chapter 10 (p. 220).

“No one ever took music away from me, but I’m damned if it ever sounds quite as good as it used to when I was twenty.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Century Rain

Zdroj: Century Rain (2004), Chapter 36 (p. 555)

“In Clavain’s experience, it was the less comforting possibility that generally turned out to be the case. It was the way the universe worked.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Redemption Ark

Zdroj: Redemption Ark (2002), Chapter 23 (p. 413)

““But of course, you don’t believe in the existence of sin, do you?”
“I believe in the existence of reckless stupidity,” Rashmika replied.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Absolution Gap

Zdroj: Absolution Gap (2003), Chapter 20 (p. 288)

“He had never lost that mingled combination of awe and terror that welled up in him when confronted by the routinely huge distances of space.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Redemption Ark

Zdroj: Redemption Ark (2002), Chapter 8 (p. 129)

“But sanity, Vasko decided, was like the pattern of lights he could see through his cabin window. In almost any direction the only way to travel was into darkness, and there was a lot more darkness than light.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Absolution Gap

Zdroj: Absolution Gap (2003), Chapter 7 (pp. 105-106)

““What happened?”
“Let’s just say my efforts to reprogram the weapon were not an unqualified success, shall we, and leave it at that?” She hated discussing failure almost as much as she hated the thing itself.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Redemption Ark

Zdroj: Redemption Ark (2002), Chapter 15 (p. 255)

“Is this a personal grudge or are you just psychotic?”

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Alastair Reynolds

A Spy in Europa (p. 105)
Short fiction, Galactic North (2006)

“The one thing I never counted on was having luck on my side.
It was generally simpler that way.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Chasm City

Zdroj: Chasm City (2001), Chapter 13 (p. 209).

“For whatever reason, I am now fully conscious. Perhaps all beta-levels are capable of this, or perhaps my sheer connectional complexity ensured that I exceeded some state of critical mass. I have no idea. All I know is that I think, and therefore I’m exceedingly angry.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Revelation Space

Zdroj: Revelation Space (2000), Chapter 18 (p. 364).

“But when she tried to say something, the words always seemed trite and inadequate. Nothing measured up. When any moment might be their last, there was nothing she could ever imagine saying that had the necessary dignity to fill that instant. Silence was better. Silence had its own dignity.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Century Rain

Zdroj: Century Rain (2004), Chapter 37 (p. 573)

““Tanner, are you insane?”
“Very probably several kinds of insane,” I said. “But I’m afraid it doesn’t change anything. I’m perfectly happy with my current delusional system.””

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Chasm City

Zdroj: Chasm City (2001), Chapter 27 (p. 454).

“The simple fact was that she no longer hated them as a matter of principle. It was also a source of shameful amazement that she could ever have wasted so much energy on groundless prejudice, when acceptance and tolerance would have been the easier, even the lazier, course.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Century Rain

Zdroj: Century Rain (2004), Chapter 36 (p. 567)

“All machines knew what would happen to them when their masters lost faith in their infallibility.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Absolution Gap

Zdroj: Absolution Gap (2003), Chapter 5 (p. 75)

“Clavain had been a soldier. He had killed more people than he could remember, even though those days had been a long time ago. It was really a lot less difficult to do when you had a cause to believe in.”

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Alastair Reynolds

Glacial (p. 102)
Short fiction, Galactic North (2006)

“Why was it never good news that put problems into perspective? Why did it always take another set of problems?”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Century Rain

Zdroj: Century Rain (2004), Chapter 14 (p. 219)

“I had never understood mathematics with any great agility, but now I sensed it as a hard grid of truth underlying everything: bones shining through the thin flesh of the world.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Diamond Dogs

Diamond Dogs, Chapter 11 (p. 135)
Short fiction, Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days (2003)

““Tell me, scientist to scientist, do you honestly think it will work?”
“We won’t know until we try,” Naqi said. Any other answer would have been politically hazardous: too much optimism and the politicians would have started asking just why the expensive project was needed in the first place. Too much pessimism and they would ask exactly the same question.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Diamond Dogs

Turquoise Days, Chapter 2 (pp. 240-241)
Short fiction, Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days (2003)

“I imagine you feel insignificant,” Sajaki said, almost as if he had been listening in on the conversation. “Well; you’re justified in feeling that way. You are insignificant. That’s the majesty of this place. Would you choose it any other way?”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Revelation Space

Zdroj: Revelation Space (2000), Chapter 34 (p. 523).

“Charm was what he excelled at. If anyone sensed his underlying shallowness, they usually mistook it for well-hidden great depth of character, like misinterpreting a radar bounce.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Century Rain

Zdroj: Century Rain (2004), Chapter 4 (p. 42)

“By and large these attempts to rewrite history were not taken seriously, but it was disconcerting to hear that they had gained even a toehold.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Chasm City

Zdroj: Chasm City (2001), Chapter 30 (p. 490).

“The Jugglers store patterns, but they seldom show any sign of comprehending actual content. We’re dealing with a mindless biological archiving system, a museum without a curator.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Diamond Dogs

Turquoise Days, Chapter 1 (p. 177)
Short fiction, Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days (2003)

“Clavain saw it all with sudden, heart-stopping clarity: all that mattered was the here and now. All that mattered was survival. Sentience that bowed down and accepted its own extinction—no matter what the long-term arguments, no matter how good the greater cause—was not the kind of sentience he was interested in preserving.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Redemption Ark

Zdroj: Redemption Ark (2002), Chapter 38 (pp. 663-664)

“Personally,” Scorpio said, “I think it’s time to stop thinking chivalry and start thinking artillery.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Absolution Gap

Zdroj: Absolution Gap (2003), Chapter 19 (p. 272)

““It’s all in the fine print. You should read it sometime.”
“When I’m gripped by existential boredom,” Khouri said, “I might try it.””

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Revelation Space

Zdroj: Revelation Space (2000), Chapter 2 (p. 51).

“Everything looked utterly normal, exactly as Thalia had expected save for the absence of a rampaging mob.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha The Prefect

Zdroj: The Prefect (2007), Chapter 14 (p. 198)

“They had been in love, desperately in love, but the universe cared nothing for the vicissitudes of the human heart.”

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Alastair Reynolds kniha Redemption Ark

Zdroj: Redemption Ark (2002), Chapter 31 (p. 586)