{"birth_date": "13 March 1966", "name": "Alastair Reynolds", "alternate_names": ["Reynolds,Alastair", "Reynolds, Alastair", "Reynolds Alastair", "Reynolds, A.", "A. Reynolds"], "source_records": ["amazon:1608479226", "amazon:1549141007", "bwb:9780316462822", "amazon:0575090456", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2021-06-03", "bwb:9781914953804"], "links": [{"title": "Official Website", "url": "https://www.alastairreynolds.com", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "Official Blog", "url": "https://approachingpavonis.blogspot.com", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "Fantastic Fiction Author Entry", "url": "https://www.fantasticfiction.com/r/alastair-reynolds/", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "ISFDB Author Entry", "url": "https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?503", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "SFE Author Entry", "url": "https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/reynolds_alastair", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "photos": [14852263, 14852261], "remote_ids": {"viaf": "42057298", "wikidata": "Q380869", "isni": "0000000108919685", "amazon": "B000APTREU", "bookbrainz": "a9220009-0fb9-4141-b274-8b3c0adcb878", "goodreads": "51204", "gnd": "123501679", "imdb": "nm6384660", "lc_naf": "n00043655", "librarything": "reynoldsalastair", "musicbrainz": "1f69022b-5468-4f2a-a9be-f16ce68e45cb", "storygraph": "a8e24825-1ba7-4b7e-8a8b-240ab16656c1", "inventaire": "wd:Q380869"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "key": "/authors/OL1392192A", "personal_name": "Alastair Reynolds", "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "British science fiction author\r\n\r\nI'm Al, I used to be a space scientist, and now I'm a writer, although for a time the two careers ran in parallel. I started off publishing short stories in the British SF magazine Interzone in the early 90s, then eventually branched into novels. I write about a novel a year and try to write a few short stories as well. Some of my books and stories are set in a consistent future named after Revelation Space, the first novel, but I've done a lot of other things as well and I like to keep things fresh between books.\r\n\r\nI was born in Wales, but raised in Cornwall, and then spent time in the north of England and Scotland. I moved to the Netherlands to continue my science career and stayed there for a very long time, before eventually returning to Wales.\r\n\r\nIn my spare time I am a very keen runner, and I also enjoying hill-walking, birdwatching, horse-riding, guitar and model-making. I also dabble with paints now and then. I met my wife in the Netherlands through a mutual interest in climbing and we married back in Wales. We live surrounded by hills, woods and wildlife, and not too much excitement."}, "latest_revision": 16, "revision": 16, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-04-03T16:10:45.940526"}}