Джеймс Блиш цитаты

Wells used the term originally to cover what we would today call ‘hard’ science fiction, in which a conscientious attempt to be faithful to already known facts (as of the date of writing) was the substrate on which the story was to be built, and if the story was also to contain a miracle, it ought at least not to contain a whole arsenal of them.
«Больше того, что под руками», 1970
Источник: James Blish, More Issues at Hand, Advent: Publishers, 1970. P. 99.
Источник: Джесс Шейдловер, Dictionary citations for the term "hard science fiction" http://www.jessesword.com/sf/view/1674. Jessesword.com. Last modified 6 July 2008.

Станислав Лем, «Фантастика и футурология», книга 2 (примечание 4)

Станислав Лем, «Фантастика и футурология», книга 2 (Космическая фантастика), 1970, 1972
перевод: Е. П. Вайсброт, В. Борисов, 2004

В таком случае уж абсолютную историческую правду предлагают «Три мушкетёра» Дюма по сравнению с той «познавательной нагрузкой», которую всучивает нам Блиш своей галактической авантюрой.
О произведениях
Источник: Романы «Звёзды в их руках» (1956), «Вернись домой, землянин» (1955), «Жизнь ради звёзд» (1962), «Триумф времени» (1958).

Источник: Short fiction, A Style in Treason (1970), Chapter 9 (p. 154)

Источник: The Quincunx of Time (1973), Chapter 10, “Weinbaum on Sinai” (p. 116)

Prologue, “A Frame on Randolph” (p. 18)
The Quincunx of Time (1973)

Источник: The Quincunx of Time (1973), Chapter 8, “The Courtship of Posi and Nega” (p. 84; ellipsis in the original)

Источник: Short fiction, Midsummer Century (1972), Chapter 9 (p. 61)

Источник: A Case of Conscience (1958), Chapter 12 (pp. 149-150)

Источник: The Quincunx of Time (1973), Chapter 8, “The Courtship of Posi and Nega” (p. 89)

Источник: Short fiction, Midsummer Century (1972), Chapter 9 (p. 63)

Источник: A Case of Conscience (1958), Chapter 17 (p. 206)

Источник: A Case of Conscience (1958), Chapter 13 (p. 158)

Источник: The Quincunx of Time (1973), Chapter 7, “A Few Cosmic Jokes” (p. 72)

Источник: Short fiction, Midsummer Century (1972), Chapter 11 (p. 80)

Источник: A Case of Conscience (1958), Chapter 18 (p. 213)

Источник: The Quincunx of Time (1973), Chapter 7, “A Few Cosmic Jokes” (p. 77)

Источник: The Quincunx of Time (1973), Chapter 10, “Weinbaum on Sinai” (pp. 118-119)

Источник: Short fiction, Midsummer Century (1972), Chapter 10 (p. 78)

Источник: Short fiction, Midsummer Century (1972), Chapter 3 (p. 21)

Источник: The Quincunx of Time (1973), Chapter 7, “A Few Cosmic Jokes” (p. 75)

Источник: Short fiction, Midsummer Century (1972), Chapter 9 (p. 62)

Источник: The Quincunx of Time (1973), Chapter 9, “A Comity of Futures” (p. 105)

Источник: A Case of Conscience (1958), Chapter 14 (p. 171)

“What is?” Wald said, raising his eyebrows.
“Nothing, of course. But hope springs eternal in the human spleen.”
Источник: The Quincunx of Time (1973), Chapter 7, “A Few Cosmic Jokes” (p. 77)

“In what way?” the countess said, not very much interested.
“It seems to be based on reverence for the young, and an extremely patient and protective attitude toward their physical and mental welfare. Yet you make them live in these huge caves, utterly out of contact with the natural world, and you teach them to be afraid of death—which of course makes them a little insane, because there is nothing anybody can do about death. It is like teaching them to be afraid of the second law of thermodynamics, just because living matter sets that law aside for a very brief period.
Источник: A Case of Conscience (1958), Chapter 12 (pp. 149-150)

Источник: …And All the Stars a Stage (1971; [serialized in 1960]), Chapter 14 (p. 186)

Источник: …And All the Stars a Stage (1971; [serialized in 1960]), Chapter 13 (p. 180)

Источник: The Day After Judgment (1971), Chapter 13 (p. 161)

Источник: The Day After Judgment (1971), Chapter 11 (p. 145)

Источник: Black Easter (1968), Chapter 12 (p. 110)

Источник: Black Easter (1968), Chapter 2 (p. 36)