Alastair Reynolds
It's an ancient technique known as lying, Khouri.Collection: Lying
The cards always look different when it's your turn to play them; loaded with subtly different possibilities.Collection: Play
It looked like a biology lesson for gods, or a snapshot of the kind of pornography which might be enjoyed by sentient planets.Collection: Snapshots
Enjoy it, kid. Enjoy feeling that you can make a difference.' Floyd flashed him a smile. 'It won't last for ever.Collection: Kids
I really struggle to pinpoint whether I became a scientist because I like science fiction, or did I gravitate to science fiction because I identified strongly with scientists.Collection: Struggle
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 doesn't just level off - it just gives up, resets itself to zero.Collection: Zero
How did you . . . pass the time?’ Sunday asked. ‘You couldn’t just ching out of it, could you?’ ‘We had a different form of chinging,’ Eunice said. ‘An earlier type of virtual-reality technology, much more robust and completely unaffected by time lag. You may have heard of it. We called it “reading”.Collection: Reading
At one time, the treatment for a certain kind of psychosis had been to push an ice pick up through the orbit of the eye, into the frontal lobe; the ice pick was then stirred around until it reduced the problematic brain tissue to non-functioning porridge.Collection: Eye