Источник: Станислав Лем. Фантастика и футурология. Книга 1 (V. Социология научной фантастики). 2-е изд. (1972) / пер. С. Макарцева, В. Борисова, 2004.
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„… Хайнлайн — инженер по подготовке и гуманист по складу характера.“
… Heinlein is an engineer by training and a humanist by temperament.
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Most striking of all, these <Heinlein's> people are not preselected for their gigantic intelligence or their colorful personalities; they are simply a random sample of genus homo. So far as I can recall, there is not a character in any one of Heinlein's stories who is not essentially ordinary. Some of them have eccentricities: some are long-lived, one has an eidetic memory, another has two heads; but in every other respect, they are triumphantly commonplace.
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Источник: Мутант Джо-Джим в «Пасынках Вселенной».
Станислав Лем, «Фантастика и футурология», книга 2 (примечание 4), 1970, 1972
перевод: Е. П. Вайсброт, В. Борисов, 2004
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“Don’t lose your temper,” said Ruell evenly. “It’s your worst fault, except for ignorance.”
Источник: A for Anything (1959), Chapter 7 (p. 88)
“Science fiction … means what we point to when we say it.”
[In Search of Wonder: Essays on Modern Science Fiction, 1956, Advent Publishers, page 1, ISBN 0911682074]