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 do…

- Alastair Reynolds

It looked like a biology lesson for gods, or a snapshot of the kind of pornography which might be enjoyed by sentient planets.

- Alastair Reynolds

As the old saying went, the Manhattan Project wasn't built in a day. Or was that Rome? Something to do with Earth, anyway.

- Alastair Reynolds

To see something marvelous with your own eyes-that's wonderful enough. But when two of you see it, two of you together, holding hands, holding each o…

- Alastair Reynolds

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

- Alastair Reynolds

Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another.

- Alastair Reynolds

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

- Alastair Reynolds

It's an ancient technique known as lying, Khouri.

- Alastair Reynolds

The cards always look different when it's your turn to play them; loaded with subtly different possibilities.

- Alastair Reynolds