Rebecca Glaessner

“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”.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Blue Remembered Earth

“One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time...give it, give it all, give it now.”
― Annie Dillard

“I think I've reduced the amount of blood in my caffeine system to an acceptable level.”
― Alastair Reynolds

“...the next time you need a piece of apparently obscure information, try asking a science fiction writer. You might be surprised.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Zima Blue and Other Stories