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British - Author Born: March 13, 1966

As a kid, I'd buy novels with these magnificent Chris Fosse covers which showed an enormous contraption hovering over a planet, and you'd always think 'Where's that going to come in?' And it never did! It was always slightly disappointing when the contents of a book never lived up to the cover.

Alastair Reynolds

You Think Book Never

I just start writing, and in the process, one hopefully comes up with ideas and solutions and explores all the little nooks and crannies.

Alastair Reynolds

Ideas Start Writing Process

When I was writing 'House Of Suns,' there were a few writers I had in mind as role models, the main being Gene Wolfe.

Alastair Reynolds

Mind Writing House Being

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

Work Sea People Space

I'm just happy to have some American readers - enough that it's a viable proposition for my books to appear there.

Alastair Reynolds

Happy Enough American Some

I'm a genre writer - I chose to be one, I ended up one, I still am one, and I'm not writing transgressive, genre-blurring fiction. I write 'core SF' - it may occasionally incorporate horror or noir tropes, but it's not pretending to be anything other than what it is.

Alastair Reynolds

Writing Pretending Horror Anything

You can't underestimate the importance of cover art.

Alastair Reynolds

Art You Underestimate Importance

It's not healthy to obsess over every data point, every review or reader comment. I think the first few times you see someone writing about you, you have this massive emotional response to it. But after a while, it all just fades into the background noise.

Alastair Reynolds

You Think Someone Writing

No idea should be discarded completely, but - as one might imagine - it does take a degree of ingenuity to find a new spin on something as hackneyed as the 'Adam and Eve' story. But if you think you've got the chops for it, there's no reason not to try.

Alastair Reynolds

You Think New Find

Ideas have a certain gestation period that can't be forced.

Alastair Reynolds

Ideas Forced Period Certain

In some respects, big ideas can be a bit too big for a short story - especially if you've only got a couple of thousand words to play with, and you need room for other stuff, like character, description.

Alastair Reynolds

Character You Words Ideas

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