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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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“The problem was, although I was as certain as I could be that I was right, I could offer nothing to bolster my arguments.”

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Alastair Reynolds книга House of Suns

Introduction to Part 2 (p. 100)
House of Suns (2008)

“No act of knowledge acquisition is entirely without risk.”

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Alastair Reynolds книга House of Suns

Источник: House of Suns (2008), Chapter 5 (p. 59)

“I was born in a house with a million rooms, built on a small, airless world on the edge of an empire of light and commerce that the adults called the Golden Hour, for a reason I did not yet grasp.”

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Alastair Reynolds книга House of Suns

Источник: House of Suns (2008), Chapter 1 (p. 3; opening words)

“I wish there was something we could do. But organised structure is the most precious thing in the universe. When it is lost, it is truly lost.”

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Alastair Reynolds книга Pushing Ice

Источник: Pushing Ice (2005), Chapter 39 (p. 557)

“There’s still hope.”

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Alastair Reynolds книга Pushing Ice

But a small, private voice said: there’s hope, and there’s desperation.

Chapter 38 (p. 527)
Pushing Ice (2005)

“That was the universe: you could beat it once, you could float a message in a bottle across half of eternity, but the universe would always find a way to have the last laugh.”

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Alastair Reynolds книга Pushing Ice

Источник: Pushing Ice (2005), Chapter 36 (p. 492)

“Some promises are best broken. Trust me on this: I’m a politician.”

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Alastair Reynolds книга Pushing Ice

Источник: Pushing Ice (2005), Chapter 34 (p. 475)

“The existence theorem says that it is always much easier to find a solution when you can be confident that one exists.”

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Alastair Reynolds книга Pushing Ice

Источник: Pushing Ice (2005), Chapter 31 (p. 444)

“There are certain truths that, in themselves, are as dangerous as any advanced technology.”

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Источник: Pushing Ice (2005), Chapter 30 (p. 435)

“Hallucination doesn’t preclude a rational response to that same hallucination.”

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Alastair Reynolds книга Pushing Ice

Источник: Pushing Ice (2005), Chapter 19 (p. 319)

“Even godlike aliens have to act rationally—don’t they?”

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Alastair Reynolds книга Pushing Ice

“I wouldn’t know,” she said. “I can’t recall ever meeting any.”

Chapter 18 (p. 301)
Pushing Ice (2005)

“It’s always easier to hate than to forgive, isn’t it?”

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Источник: Pushing Ice (2005), Chapter 14 (p. 233)

“Such hopes now seemed ludicrous in their naivety, like trying to stop a bulldozer with a feather.”

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Alastair Reynolds книга Pushing Ice

Источник: Pushing Ice (2005), Chapter 13 (p. 216)

“There’s a lot here we don’t understand. Adding one more thing to the list doesn’t strike me as the worst crime imaginable.”

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Alastair Reynolds книга Pushing Ice

Источник: Pushing Ice (2005), Chapter 10 (p. 164)

“It was astonishing how quickly friendship could turn to enmity, she thought, like a compass needle swinging from one pole to the other.
They’d been excellent friends. They’d make excellent enemies as well.”

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Alastair Reynolds книга Pushing Ice

Источник: Pushing Ice (2005), Chapter 8 (p. 132)

“She was pointing into the empty, angel-less heavens beyond.
Everything else. The universe.”

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Alastair Reynolds книга Terminal World

Источник: Terminal World (2010), Chapter 30 (p. 550; closing words)

“We don’t have enough evidence to decide either way,” Ricasso said, “so for now we may as well keep open minds.”

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Alastair Reynolds книга Terminal World

Источник: Terminal World (2010), Chapter 22 (p. 405)

“If my years as a shatterling had taught me anything, it was that not all questions had answers. Societies had reduced themselves to radioactive dust because they could not accept that single unpalatable truth.”

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Alastair Reynolds книга House of Suns

Источник: House of Suns (2008), Chapter 8 (pp. 84-85)

“The question is: do you trust me? Sometimes.”

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Alastair Reynolds книга Pushing Ice

Bella smiled. “That’s exactly the right attitude: trust your leaders, but be careful not to trust them too much.”
Источник: Pushing Ice (2005), Chapter 27 (p. 397)

“I’m not asking you to open your mind to all manner of nonsense, Doctor, merely to allow for the possibility of things you might previously have dismissed, or failed to give any consideration to whatsoever. Such as the fact that the world was not always this way, and by implication doesn’t have to be this way in the future.”

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Alastair Reynolds книга Terminal World

Источник: Terminal World (2010), Chapter 14 (p. 232)

“Open your story-cube on the way home and ask it to tell you about causality violation. I did once, because I asked the same question you did. Why should I be limited? What right does the universe have to say what I can and can’t do? I’m intelligent. The universe is just a lot of hydrogen and dirt, going through the motions. But in this instance the universe has the final say.”

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Alastair Reynolds книга House of Suns

Introduction to Part 4 (p. 267)
House of Suns (2008)

“People lived and died and did strange, pointless things to themselves. So did societies, be they city-sized states or galactic empires encompassing thousands of solar systems. Everything came and went, everything was new and bright with promise once and old and worn out later, and everything left a small, diminishing stain on eternity, a mark that time would eventually erase.”

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Источник: House of Suns (2008), Chapter 16 (p. 240)

“I had read in the story-cube that the speed of light was a universal limit; that in a thousand years of experimentation—despite any number of false dawns—no one had ever managed to circumvent it. This had made me feel hemmed in and claustrophobic—it was like being told I must never run or skip down the long, dreary corridors of the house, but must walk instead, with my neck straight and my hands held behind my back. I felt affronted, as if the speed of light was a personal assault on my liberty. Why should I not go as fast as I pleased? Why should I not skip and run? But I could no more explain why the speed limit existed than I could explain why two and two did not make five. It was simply the way things were, one of those rules—like the edict not to visit certain parts of the house—that were not to be questioned.”

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Alastair Reynolds книга House of Suns

Introduction to Part 2 (p. 100)
House of Suns (2008)

“Some people get it. Most people never will.
But that’s art.”

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Alastair Reynolds Zima Blue

Источник: Short fiction, Zima Blue and Other Stories (2006), Zima Blue (p. 403)

“The old murals came from the heart,” Zima said. “I painted on a huge scale because that was what the subject matter seemed to demand.”

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Alastair Reynolds Zima Blue

“It was good work,” I said.
“It was hack work. Huge, loud, demanding, popular, but ultimately soulless. Just because it came from the heart didn’t make it good.”
Zima Blue (p. 395)
Short fiction, Zima Blue and Other Stories (2006)

“Loosen up. I need reverence like I need a skateboard.”

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Alastair Reynolds книга Angels of Ashes

Angels of Ashes (p. 253)
Short fiction, Zima Blue and Other Stories (2006)

“Could be worse, as they say.”

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Alastair Reynolds книга On the Steel Breeze

“That’s the sum story of human history, isn’t it? Could be worse. As if that’s the very best that we can manage.”
Источник: On the Steel Breeze (2013), Chapter 53 (p. 527)

“I had work to be getting on with. I’ve always had work to be getting on with. It’s what the universe was put there for: to give me things to do.”

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Alastair Reynolds книга On the Steel Breeze

Источник: On the Steel Breeze (2013), Chapter 53 (p. 523)

“Humanity is an assemblage of information-processing entities, and in that regard you have potential.”

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Alastair Reynolds книга On the Steel Breeze

Источник: On the Steel Breeze (2013), Chapter 43 (p. 438)

“I can’t tell you how much happier I’d be meeting a bunch of artificial intelligences if I also happened to have one on my side.”

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Alastair Reynolds книга On the Steel Breeze

“Can we drop the ‘artificial intelligence’? It’s a bit like me calling you a meat-based processing system.”
Источник: On the Steel Breeze (2013), Chapter 29 (p. 312)