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Альфред Элтон Ван Вогт — американский писатель-фантаст.

✵ 26. Апрель 1912 – 26. Январь 2000
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„В детстве> я был как корабль без якоря, уносимый куда-то штормом во тьму. Постоянно искал тихую гавань, а вместо этого снова и снова нёсся навстречу новым неожиданностям.“

его отец работал адвокатом и по делам службы вместе с семьёй много раз менял место жительства.
Вариант: В детстве я был как корабль без якоря, уносимый куда-то штормом во тьму. Постоянно искал тихую гавань, а вместо этого снова и снова нёсся навстречу новым неожиданностям.

„Как доказали Найт и Блиш, фантасмогорическая акробатика Ван Вогта не служит никакому общему смыслу. Ван Вогт не разрешает заданных им самим загадок; не делает выводов из того, о чём шла речь ранее — он только поспешно фиксирует мысли, чтобы на них хаотически нагромождать очередные. Таким образом, Ван Вогт не гипнотизирует внимательного читателя, он его только усыпляет; этот сон — результат нарастающей скуки, а не покоряющего магнетизма. Единственная проблема, которую представляет проза Ван Вогта, это её рыночный успех, который интеллигентного читателя, каковым является Найт, одновременно раздражает и оскорбляет. Как может пользоваться огромной популярностью произведение, бессмысленность которого так однозначно доказал Найт? Однако в этом нет никакой глубокой тайны. Китчевая чепуха успешно удерживается на плаву, потому что на неё существует большой спрос. Поклонники Ван Вогта не забивают себе голову неопровержимой аргументацией Найта. Вероятнее всего они ничего о ней не знают и наверняка ничего и не хотят о ней знать. Они получают от Ван Вогта целую вселенную вместе с её жителями, войнами, империями, отлично организованную, при этом в своей тотальной бессмысленности незамедлительно объясняемую, закрывая при этом глаза на то, что им насаждается оглупляющая ложь. Пожалуй, больше на эту тему сказать нечего.“

«Science fiction: безнадёжный случай с исключениями», 6
Станислав Лем
Источник: Knight, Damon. In Search of Wonder, 1956, 1967.
Источник: Джеймс Блиш, сборник рецензий на SF 1950-1953 гг. «То, что под руками» («The Issue at Hand», 1964, 1967).

Альфред ван Вогт: Цитаты на английском языке

“And, even more important, the forces that would normally try to enslave them are restrained by the conviction that it is dangerous to press people too far. And so a great balance has been struck between those who govern and those who are governed.”

A. E. van Vogt книга The Weapon Shops of Isher

Lucy Rail, and Cayle Clark in Ch. 5
The Weapon Shops of Isher (1951)
Контексте: "You really don't understand. We don't worry about individuals. What counts is that many millions of people have the knowledge that they can go to a weapon shop if they want to protect themselves and their families. And, even more important, the forces that would normally try to enslave them are restrained by the conviction that it is dangerous to press people too far. And so a great balance has been struck between those who govern and those who are governed."
Cayle stared at her in bitter disappointment. "You mean that a person has to save himself? Even when you get a gun you have to nerve yourself to resist? Nobody is there to help you?"
It struck him with a pang that she must have told him this in order to show him why she couldn't help him.
Lucy spoke again. "I can see that what I've told you is a great disappointment to you. But that's the way it is. And I think you'll realize that's the way it has to be. When a people lose the courage to resist encroachment on their rights, then they can't be saved by an outside force. Our belief is that people always have the kind of government they want and that individuals must bear the risks of freedom, even to the extent of giving their lives."

“The weapon shops were founded more than two thousand years ago by a man who decided that the incessant struggle for power of different groups was insane and the civil and other wars must stop forever.”

A. E. van Vogt книга The Weapon Shops of Isher

It was a time when the world had just emerged from a war in which more than a billion people had died and he found thousands of people who agreed to follow him. His idea was nothing less than that whatever government was in power should not be overthrown. But that an organization should be set up which would have one principal purpose — to ensure that no government ever again obtained complete power over its people. A man who felt himself wronged should be able to go somewhere to buy a defensive gun. You cannot imagine what a great forward step that was. Under the old tyrannical governments it was frequently a capital offense to be found in possession of a blaster or a gun. … What gave the founder the idea was the invention of an electronic and atomic system of control which made it possible to build indestructible weapon shops and to manufacture weapons that could only be used for defense. That last ended all possibility of weapon shop guns being used by gangsters and other criminals and morally justified the entire enterprise. For defensive purposes a weapon shop gun is superior to an ordinary or government weapon. It works on mind control and leaps to the hand when wanted. It provides a defensive screen against other blasters, though not against bullets but since it is so much faster, that isn't important.
Lucy Rail, to Cayle Clark, in Ch. 5
The Weapon Shops of Isher (1951)

“You really don't understand. We don't worry about individuals.”

A. E. van Vogt книга The Weapon Shops of Isher

Lucy Rail, and Cayle Clark in Ch. 5
The Weapon Shops of Isher (1951)
Контексте: "You really don't understand. We don't worry about individuals. What counts is that many millions of people have the knowledge that they can go to a weapon shop if they want to protect themselves and their families. And, even more important, the forces that would normally try to enslave them are restrained by the conviction that it is dangerous to press people too far. And so a great balance has been struck between those who govern and those who are governed."
Cayle stared at her in bitter disappointment. "You mean that a person has to save himself? Even when you get a gun you have to nerve yourself to resist? Nobody is there to help you?"
It struck him with a pang that she must have told him this in order to show him why she couldn't help him.
Lucy spoke again. "I can see that what I've told you is a great disappointment to you. But that's the way it is. And I think you'll realize that's the way it has to be. When a people lose the courage to resist encroachment on their rights, then they can't be saved by an outside force. Our belief is that people always have the kind of government they want and that individuals must bear the risks of freedom, even to the extent of giving their lives."

“When a people lose the courage to resist encroachment on their rights, then they can't be saved by an outside force. Our belief is that people always have the kind of government they want and that individuals must bear the risks of freedom, even to the extent of giving their lives.”

A. E. van Vogt книга The Weapon Shops of Isher

Lucy Rail, and Cayle Clark in Ch. 5
The Weapon Shops of Isher (1951)
Контексте: "You really don't understand. We don't worry about individuals. What counts is that many millions of people have the knowledge that they can go to a weapon shop if they want to protect themselves and their families. And, even more important, the forces that would normally try to enslave them are restrained by the conviction that it is dangerous to press people too far. And so a great balance has been struck between those who govern and those who are governed."
Cayle stared at her in bitter disappointment. "You mean that a person has to save himself? Even when you get a gun you have to nerve yourself to resist? Nobody is there to help you?"
It struck him with a pang that she must have told him this in order to show him why she couldn't help him.
Lucy spoke again. "I can see that what I've told you is a great disappointment to you. But that's the way it is. And I think you'll realize that's the way it has to be. When a people lose the courage to resist encroachment on their rights, then they can't be saved by an outside force. Our belief is that people always have the kind of government they want and that individuals must bear the risks of freedom, even to the extent of giving their lives."

“Give me a title and we'll start from there.”

Response to Harlan Ellison, at a suggestion to work together on a story, as quoted by Ellison in his introduction to "The Human Operators" in Partners in Wonder (2014)

“Childhood was a terrible period for me. I was like a ship without anchor being swept along through darkness in a storm. Again and again I sought shelter, only to be forced out of it by something new.”

As quoted in "Man Beyond Man : The Early Stories of A.E. van Vogt" http://www.panshin.com/articles/vanvogt/vanvogt1.html by Alexei Panshin in The Abyss of Wonder

“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.”

A. E. van Vogt книга The Weapon Shop

The Weapon Shop, in Astounding Science Fiction (December 1942)

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