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Аластер Рейнольдс — англоязычный писатель-фантаст, родом из Уэльса, работающий в жанре прото-трансгуманистическая космическая опера.

Родился в Барри в Южном Уэльсе. Ранние годы провёл в Корнуолле , затем вернулся в Уэльс. С 1977 по 1985 учился в Pencoed Comprehensive School. Изучал физику и астрономию в университете Ньюкасла. С тех пор считает этот город одним из любимейших мест мира. В 1988 г. переехал в Сент-Эндрюс в Шотландии для получения докторской степени по астрономии. После защиты диссертации в 1991 г. переехал в Нидерланды, где вскоре нашёл свою спутницу жизни, Жозетту. Вел исследовательскую работу в Европейском космическом агентстве в 1991—1994 годах, затем два года провёл в Утрехтском университете. В настоящее время снова работает по контракту в ESA, участвует в нескольких научных астрофизических проектах.

Его первый научно-фантастический рассказ появился в 1990 году в журнале «UK magazine Interzone». С тех пор он опубликовал множество повестей и рассказов, и семь романов. Его работы представляют собой твёрдую научную фантастику, скрывающуюся за восхитительными космическими операми и историями в стиле нуар, и отражают его профессиональный опыт в области физики, и астрономии. Wikipedia  

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“She’d walked a delicate line with commendable skill.
But sometimes the best case wasn’t good enough.”

Alastair Reynolds книга The Prefect

Источник: The Prefect (2007), Chapter 18 (p. 290)

“The new regime which had succeeded his after the coup had become as fragmentary as the old, in the time-honoured way of all revolutions.”

Alastair Reynolds книга Revelation Space

Источник: Revelation Space (2000), Chapter 3 (p. 61).

“She wondered if she could put a dart in his eye. It would not kill him, but it might take the edge off his cockiness.”

Alastair Reynolds книга Revelation Space

Источник: Revelation Space (2000), Chapter 2 (p. 59).

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

Alastair Reynolds книга Revelation Space

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

“Nice girls don’t carry guns.”

Alastair Reynolds книга Century Rain

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

“Can I still wish you good luck?”

Alastair Reynolds книга 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 книга Redemption Ark

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

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

Alastair Reynolds книга Chasm City

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

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

Alastair Reynolds книга 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?”
Источник: Revelation Space (2000), Chapter 19 (p. 381).

“How long have we been friends, Dan?”

Alastair Reynolds книга 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 книга 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 книга Terminal World

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

“Do you think it means anything?”

Alastair Reynolds книга 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 книга Terminal World

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

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

Alastair Reynolds книга 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 книга 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 книга House of Suns

Источник: 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 книга House of Suns

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

“I felt a terrible sadness open inside me, a void through which the winds from the end of the universe were blowing.”

Alastair Reynolds книга House of Suns

Источник: House of Suns (2008), Chapter 19 (p. 307)