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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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“It seemed that she had not so much misjudged the woman as assigned her to completely the wrong species.”

Alastair Reynolds kniha Revelation Space

Zdroj: Revelation Space (2000), Chapter 14 (p. 316).

“Nice girls don’t carry guns.”

Alastair Reynolds kniha Century Rain

Zdroj: Century Rain (2004), Chapter 19 (p. 325)

“Can I still wish you good luck?”

Alastair Reynolds kniha Redemption Ark

“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.

Chapter 38 (p. 654)
Redemption Ark (2002)

“How are the internal complications, anyway? Aren’t the other branches of government getting a little suspicious about all these machinations?”

Alastair Reynolds kniha Redemption Ark

“Let’s just say that one or two discreet assassinations may still have to be performed,” Khouri said.
Zdroj: Redemption Ark (2002), Chapter 27 (p. 490)

“That’s how it went, wasn’t it Zebra?”

Alastair Reynolds kniha Chasm City

“It might,” she said. “If I happened to be colluding in your own delusions.”
Zdroj: Chasm City (2001), Chapter 29 (p. 479).

“Haven’t you ever heard of morale-building?”

Alastair Reynolds kniha Revelation Space

Khouri had asked.
“Heard of it,” Volyova said. “Don’t happen to agree with it. Would you rather be happy and dead, or scared and alive?”
Zdroj: Revelation Space (2000), Chapter 19 (p. 381).

“How long have we been friends, Dan?”

Alastair Reynolds kniha Revelation Space

“I wouldn’t exactly call it friendship; more a kind of mutual parasitism.”

Chapter 7 (p. 166).
Revelation Space (2000)

“All right, Marius—I get the message. In fact I intercepted it, parsed it, filtered it, decrypted it with the appropriate onetime pad and wrote a fucking two-hundred-page report on it. Satisfied?”

“I’m never satisfied, Mishenka. It just isn’t in my nature.”
A Spy in Europa (pp. 104-105)
Short fiction, Galactic North (2006)

“Tell me, scientist to scientist, do you honestly think it will work?”

Alastair Reynolds kniha Diamond Dogs

“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.

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

“Hopefully they’ll accept me for what I am, not what I was. That’s all we can ever hope for, isn’t it?”

Alastair Reynolds kniha Terminal World

Zdroj: Terminal World (2010), Chapter 24 (p. 454)

“Do you think it means anything?”

Alastair Reynolds kniha Terminal World

“Probably not," Ricasso said, wiping his dust-smeared hands on his knees. “I’m all for looking for meaning in ancient texts. But now and then you have to just accept the fact that you’re dealing with so much religious gibberish.”

Chapter 22 (p. 413)
Terminal World (2010)

“This was a watering hole, and watering holes drew the hungry as well as the parched.”

Alastair Reynolds kniha Terminal World

Zdroj: Terminal World (2010), Chapter 16 (p. 265)

“And you do not think that this is possible?”

Alastair Reynolds kniha Terminal World

“I’ll believe in anything when I see evidence for it.”

Chapter 12 (p. 188)
Terminal World (2010)

“I have only your word for that.”

Alastair Reynolds kniha House of Suns

“Yes,” the glass man said, “that’s rather the point. There’s going to have to be a lot more trust from this time forward. Why don’t we start as we mean to go on?”

Chapter 41 (p. 563)
House of Suns (2008)

“Do you see us slavering for revenge, that most pointlessly biological of imperatives?”

Alastair Reynolds kniha House of Suns

Zdroj: House of Suns (2008), Chapter 41 (p. 558)

“We were sowing so much misinformation that some of it came back and bit us.”

Alastair Reynolds kniha House of Suns

Zdroj: House of Suns (2008), Chapter 39 (pp. 516-517)