Alastair Reynolds : (4)

" There is enough material in the Kuiper Belt to build anything out there. We could gobble up all the little asteroids, filtering out all the volatile materials, leaving us with bits of rock and using that to make some incredible structures. " - Alastair Reynolds

" In the ‘Revelation Space’ books, the spaceships are a bit old and rusty, and things go wrong, and they don’t work quite how they’re meant to. And people asked why I did it this way, and groping around for an explanation, I said that I grew up in Barry, this post-industrial sea town full of rusting infrastructure. " - Alastair Reynolds

" Above all else, ‘Doctor Who’ still seems to me to offer near-infinite scope for the writer. It must be the least constraining of televisual properties. " - Alastair Reynolds

" Science fiction can be very relevant, could be good literature. " - Alastair Reynolds