“I'm fascinated by steam engines and with Victorian engineering generally, and as…” — Alastair Reynolds

My mother was a part of a reading group, but they would never come near science fiction because they think it's not for them.

It's a novel experience to have one of my books read by a reading group.

From apparently superluminal radio sources in deep space, to the neutrinos that were supposed to be arriving ahead of schedule at the Grand Sasso experiment in Italy, every apparent exception to Einstein's ultimate speed law has turned out to be a phantom.

Dreams of warp drives and hyperspace are just that - dreams.