The cards always look different when it's your turn to play them; loaded with subtly different possibilities.
Alastair ReynoldsAt 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.
Alastair ReynoldsI never wanted to be "a writer"; I only ever aspired to be an science fiction writer. They'll tear that badge out of my cold dead hands.
Alastair ReynoldsAutocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another.
Alastair Reynolds