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
Почему я стал фантастом...
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Почему я стал фантастом...
Брайан Олдисс цитаты
«Фантастика и футурология», книга 1 (Генерирующие структуры фантастики), 1970, 1972
перевод: С. Макарцев, В. Борисов, 2004
Станислав Лем
«Переводчик»
Из произведений
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
“In the extraordinary ancestral compost heap of your unconscious mind, I have burrowed too long.”
Источник: Hothouse (1962), Chapter 23
“Exactly.”
“Man on Bridge” p. 89
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“Man on Bridge” p. 89
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“Carnage added to carnage does not equal peace.”
“Basis for Negotiations” p. 152
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
"In Conversation: Brian Aldiss & James Blish" in Cypher (October 1973)
“Man on Bridge” p. 88
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
Locus interview (2000)
“Why should you be confused just because you come from a confused civilization?”
“Poor Little Warrior!” p. 78 (originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 1958)
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“Man in His Time” p. 209
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
Let's Be Frank (1957)
“Basis for Negotiations” p. 122
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“Relax, enjoy yourself. Have another drink. It’s patriotic to overconsume.”
Источник: Greybeard (1964), Chapter 4 (p. 121)
"The Deceptive Truth", The Dark Sun Rises (2002)
“Old Hundredth” p. 162
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.”
The Twinkling of an Eye: My Life as an Englishman (1998) Unsourced variant: "Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system."
"In Conversation: Brian Aldiss & James Blish" in Cypher (October 1973); republished in The Tale That Wags the God (1987) by James Blish
Let's Be Frank (1957)
“The ability to change should not be despised.”
“Basis for Negotiations” p. 139
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“Man on Bridge” pp. 90-91
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“It’s the duty of men in office not to be misled.”
“Basis for Negotiations” p. 140
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“I kill from conviction, not to pass a personality quiz.”
“Basis for Negotiations” p. 143
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.”
"Apéritif" in Bury My Heart at W.H. Smith's (1990)