предисловие к роману, 1962
Источник: Introduction by Brian W. Aldiss (1962) // Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men, Penguin Books, 1963.
Источник: Станислав Лем. Фантастика и футурология. Книга 2 (От фантастической философии к историософической фантастике. Борхес и Стэплдон // IX. Утопия и футурология). 2-е изд. (1972) / пер. Е. П. Вайсброта, В. Борисова, 2004.
Брайан Олдисс знаменитые цитаты
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Брайан Олдисс цитаты
«Фантастика и футурология», книга 1 (Генерирующие структуры фантастики), 1970, 1972
перевод: С. Макарцев, В. Борисов, 2004
Станислав Лем
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When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of Hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.
1977
Источник: Manchester Guardian (31 December 1977)
Источник: Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations (1988) https://web.archive.org/web/20000709051930/http://www.bartleby.com/63/90/4790.html edited by James B. Simpson
Источник: Says Who?: A Guide To The Quotations Of The Century (1988) by Jonathon Green, p. 17 http://books.google.com/books?id=xUwOAQAAMAAJ&q=%22When+childhood+dies,+its+corpses+are+called+adults%22&dq=%22When+childhood+dies,+its+corpses+are+called+adults%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KZO4U_WwFJSlqAaquoKoCg&ved=0CK0BEOgBMBk
Источник: The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations (1989), p. 45 http://books.google.com/books?id=bs0J36MpieIC&pg=PA45&dq=%22When+childhood+dies,+its+corpses+are+called+adults%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KZO4U_WwFJSlqAaquoKoCg&ved=0CEkQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=%22When%20childhood%20dies%2C%20its%20corpses%20are%20called%20adults%22&f=false
Most SF is about madness, or what is currently ruled to be madness; this is part of its attraction — it's always playing with how much the human mind can encompass.
1973
Источник: "In Conversation: Brian Aldiss & James Blish", Cypher (October 1973)
Источник: The Tale That Wags the God (1987) by James Blish
One of the objections I have against Campbell's Astounding was that there was too little love in it. It was a very loveless magazine. They never took enough account of the feeling that is always in SF.
1973
Брайан Олдисс: Цитаты на английском языке
“-""Expansion to your ego, friend"".
-""At your expense"".”
Вариант: Expansion to your ego, friend.
-At your expense.
“Basis for Negotiations” p. 124
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“Poor Little Warrior!” p. 80
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“If adolescence did not exist it would be unnecessary to invent it!”
“Poor Little Warrior!” p. 78
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“The only sort of tasks worth being set were impossible ones.”
“A Kind of Artistry” p. 175 (originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October 1962)
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
Источник: Greybeard (1964), Chapter 3 “The River: Swifford Fair” (p. 75)
“Who Can Replace a Man?” p. 19 (originally published in Infinity Science Fiction, June 1958)
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“You are like all cruel men, sentimental; you are like all sentimental men; squeamish.”
“Poor Little Warrior!” p. 80
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, growing riotous and strange in their impulse for growth.”
Источник: Hothouse (1962), Chapter 1 (first line)
“At least the mentor’s point was made: loneliness was psychological, not statistical.”
“Old Hundredth” p. 163
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“Never, never let action become a substitute for thought.”
“Basis for Negotiations” p. 121 (originally published in New Worlds Science Fiction #114, January 1962)
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.”
Penguin Science Fiction (1961) Introduction
“Man was an accident on this world or it would have been made better for him!”
Источник: Hothouse (1962), Chapter 18
“One of the characteristics of age was that all avenues of talk led backward in time.”
Источник: Greybeard (1964), Chapter 1 “The River: Sparcot” (p. 21)
“I’ve no objection to morality, except that it’s obsolete.”
Источник: Greybeard (1964), Chapter 4 (p. 122)
“Man on Bridge” p. 87
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“Poor Little Warrior!” p. 78
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“However you envisage your role in life, all you can do is perform it as best you can.”
Источник: Greybeard (1964), Chapter 7 (p. 203)
Let's Be Frank (1957)
Let's Be Frank (1957)