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Джон Холбрук Вэнс — американский писатель, работавший в жанрах «фэнтези» и научной фантастики.

Вэнс опубликовал одиннадцать детективных повестей под своим настоящим именем и три детективных повести под псевдонимом Эллери Куин . Кроме того, он публиковал повести и рассказы под псевдонимами Алан Уэйд , Питер Хелд , Джон ван Зее и Джей Каванс .

Джек Вэнс удостоен множества литературных наград, в том числе награды «Хьюго» в 1963 г. за повесть «Повелители драконов» и в 1967 г. за повесть «Последняя цитадель», награды «Небьюла» в 1966 г. , награды «Юпитер» в 1975 г., звания победителя «Всемирной премии фэнтези» в 1984 г. «за выдающееся литературное наследие» и в 1990 г. за книгу «Мадук» из серии «Лионесс», премию Эдгара Аллана По за лучший первый роман американского писателя в 1961 г. и звания «гроссмейстера» Всемирной ассоциации писателей-фантастов в 1990 г.; в 1992 г. Вэнса принимали как почётного гостя во время Всемирной конвенции писателей-фантастов в г. Орландо, штат Флорида.

Джек Вэнс пользуется, как правило, очень высокой репутацией среди критиков и коллег, причём некоторые из них считают, что произведения Вэнса выходят за рамки традиционных жанров и должны рассматриваться как многогранные работы одного из крупнейших писателей нашего времени. Пол Андерсон, например, называл Вэнса «величайшим из живых американских писателей, издающимся под маркой „научной фантастики“, но не укладывающимся в тесные рамки этого определения». Wikipedia  

✵ 28. Август 1916 – 26. Май 2013   •   Другие имена جک ونس, ჯეკ ვენსი
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“A detached attitude toward the problems of others is not illegal.”

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Jack Vance Demon Princes

Источник: Demon Princes (1964-1981), The Killing Machine (1964), Chapter 3 (p. 180)

“Destiny could not bring him this far only to deal him failure!”

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Jack Vance Demon Princes

Источник: Demon Princes (1964-1981), The Star King (1964), Chapter 10 (p. 122)

“Motto of the Institute: A little knowledge is a dangerous thing; a great deal of knowledge is disaster, which detractors of the Institute scornfully paraphrase to: Somebody else’s ignorance is bliss.”

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Jack Vance Demon Princes

Источник: Demon Princes (1964-1981), The Star King (1964), Chapter 8 (p. 83)

“The tighter the discipline of an art form, the more subjective the criteria of taste.”

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Jack Vance Demon Princes

Источник: Demon Princes (1964-1981), The Star King (1964), Chapter 7 (p. 79)

“There are also those who, like the author, ensconce themselves on a thunderous crag of omniscience, and with protestations of humility which are either unconvincing or totally absent, assume the obligation of appraisal, commendation, derogation or denunciation of their contemporaries. Still, by and large it is an easier job than digging a ditch.”

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Jack Vance Demon Princes

Источник: Demon Princes (1964-1981), The Star King (1964), Chapter 6 (p. 59)

“Humanity many times has had sad experience of superpowerful police forces…As soon as (the police) slip out from under the firm thumb of a suspicious local tribune, they become arbitrary, merciless, a law unto themselves. They think no more of justice, but only of establishing themselves as a privileged and envied elite. They mistake the attitude of natural caution and uncertainty of the civilian population as admiration and respect, and presently they start to swagger back and forth, jingling their weapons in megalomaniac euphoria. People thereupon become not masters, but servants. Such a police force becomes merely an aggregate of uniformed criminals, the more baneful in that their position is unchallenged and sanctioned by law. The police mentality cannot regard a human being in terms other than as an item or object to be processed as expeditiously as possible. Public convenience or dignity means nothing; police prerogatives assume the status of divine law. Submissiveness is demanded. If a police officer kills a civilian, it is a regrettable circumstance: the officer was possibly overzealous. If a civilian kills a police officer all hell breaks loose. The police foam at the mouth. All other business comes to a standstill until the perpetrator of this most dastardly act is found out. Inevitably, when apprehended, he is beaten or otherwise tortured for his intolerable presumption. The police complain that they cannot function efficiently, that criminals escape them. Better a hundred unchecked criminals than the despotism of one unbridled police force.”

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Jack Vance Demon Princes

Источник: Demon Princes (1964-1981), The Star King (1964), Chapter 3 (pp. 32-33)

“Revenge is not an ignoble motive, when it works to a productive end.”

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Jack Vance Demon Princes

Источник: Demon Princes (1964-1981), The Star King (1964), Chapter 2 (p. 28)

“You will have useful work: the destruction of evil men. What work could be more useful?”

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Jack Vance Demon Princes

Источник: Demon Princes (1964-1981), The Star King (1964), Chapter 2 (p. 27)

“A natural scientist, examining a single atom, might well be able to asseverate the structure and history of the entire universe!”

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Jack Vance Dying Earth

Bah!" muttered Hurtiancz. "By the same token, a sensible man need listen to but a single word in order to recognize the whole for egregious nonsense."
"Morreion", Ch. 8
Dying Earth (1950-1984), Rhialto the Marvellous (1984)

“I was trained in the old tradition! We found our strength in the basic verities, to which you, as a patrician, must surely subscribe. Am I right in this?”

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Jack Vance Dying Earth

“Absolutely, and in all respects!” declared Cugel. “Recognizing, of course, that these fundamental verities vary from region to region, and even from person to person.”
Источник: Dying Earth (1950-1984), Cugel's Saga (1983), Chapter 3, section 2, "Faucelme"

“Let them scoff as they see fit! I will never compromise what I consider my art, especially for the sake of gain!”

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Jack Vance книга Showboat World

“For the sake of gain I’d compromise the art of my grandmother,” muttered Zamp under his breath.
Источник: Showboat World (1975), Chapter 14 (p. 168)

“You’re sure you want to look into these cognates? You might see things you wouldn’t like.”

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Jack Vance

“So long as I know the truth, I don’t care whether I like it or not.”
Section 6 (p. 186)
Short fiction, Rumfuddle (1973)

“Gambling, in the ultimate study, stems from the passive, the submissive, the irresponsible in human nature; the gambler is one of an inferior lickspittle breed who turns himself belly-upward to the capricious deeds of Luck. Examine now the man of strength and action: he is never led by destiny. He drives on a decided course, manipulates the variables, and instead of submitting to the ordained shape of his life, creates a pattern to his own design.”

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Jack Vance

Startling Stories (September 1948), p. 113
Short fiction, Sanatoris Short-Cut (1948)

“My wealth is my shelf of books!”

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Jack Vance Demon Princes

Источник: Demon Princes (1964-1981), The Face (1979), Chapter 14 (p. 173)

“Do you deny the charges?”

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Jack Vance Planet of Adventure

“I neither confirm nor deny them; they are ridiculous.”
Источник: Planet of Adventure (1968-1970), The Dirdir (1969), Chapter 20 (pp. 408-409)

“You make very narrow distinctions.”

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Jack Vance книга Night Lamp

Источник: Night Lamp (1996), Chapter 13, section 7 (p. 230)
Контексте: “Of course! That is the nature of clear thinking.”

“One thing was certain: when someone searched into secret places, he often came up with things he would rather not have found.”

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Jack Vance книга Night Lamp

Источник: Night Lamp (1996), Chapter 5, section 3 (p. 81)

“They meant no harm, of course; they wanted only that he be like themselves, which was the prerogative of all parents.”

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Jack Vance книга Night Lamp

Источник: Night Lamp (1996), Chapter 5, section 1 (p. 68)

“There is no mystery about violence. It is the reflexive act of brutes, boors and moral defectives.”

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Jack Vance книга Night Lamp

Источник: Night Lamp (1996), Chapter 3, section 1 (p. 37)

“Except for a few special cases, title to every parcel of real property derives from an act of violence, more or less remote, and ownership is only as valid as the strength and will required to maintain it. That is the lesson of history, whether you like it or not.”

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Jack Vance книга The Gray Prince

“The mourning of defeated peoples, while pathetic and tragic, is usually futile,” said Kelse.
Источник: The Gray Prince (1975 [serialized 1974]), Chapter 16 (p. 159)

“The travesty exists only because reliance upon abstraction has made reality incomprehensible to you.”

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Jack Vance книга The Gray Prince

Источник: The Gray Prince (1975 [serialized 1974]), Chapter 16 (p. 159)

“How I hate you. If hate were stone I could build a tower into the clouds.”

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Jack Vance книга The Gray Prince

Источник: The Gray Prince (1975 [serialized 1974]), Chapter 15 (p. 152)

“Urban folk, dealing as they do in ideas and abstractions, become conditioned to unreality. Then, wherever the fabric of civilization breaks, these people are as helpless as fish out of water.”

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Jack Vance книга The Gray Prince

Источник: The Gray Prince (1975 [serialized 1974]), Chapter 4 (p. 49)

“You used the word ‘civilization,’ which means a set of abstractions, symbols, conventions. Experience tends to be vicarious; emotions are predigested and electrical; ideas become more real than things.”

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Jack Vance книга The Gray Prince

Источник: The Gray Prince (1975 [serialized 1974]), Chapter 4 (p. 48)

“Often their grievances were real; often they complained from sheer petulance.”

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Jack Vance книга The Gray Prince

Источник: The Gray Prince (1975 [serialized 1974]) Prologue (p. 8)

“My brain, otherwise a sound instrument, has a serious defect—a hypertrophied lobe of curiosity.”

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Jack Vance книга The Many Worlds of Magnus Ridolph

The Howling Bounders (p. 56)
Short fiction, The Many Worlds of Magnus Ridolph (1966)

“Mystery is a word with no objective pertinence, merely describing the limitations of a mind. In fact, a mind may be classified by the order of the phenomena it considers mysterious.… The mystery is resolved, the solution made known. “Of course, it is obvious!” comes the chorus. A word about the obvious: it is always obvious.… The common mind transposed the sequence, letting the mystery generate the solution. This is logic in reverse; actually the mystery relates to the solution as the foam relates to the beer.…”

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Jack Vance книга The Many Worlds of Magnus Ridolph

The Unspeakable McInch (p. 39; all ellipses in the original)
Short fiction, The Many Worlds of Magnus Ridolph (1966)

“I’d rather be a live pessimist than a dead comedian.”

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Jack Vance

Источник: Short fiction, Future Tense (1964), Sail 25 (p. 93)

“Now, as to the persistence of superstition, only an impoverished mind considers itself the repository of absolute knowledge.”

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Jack Vance

Источник: Short fiction, Future Tense (1964), Sail 25 (p. 84)

“Organization: smooth and relentless; Organization: massive and inert, tolerant of the submissive, serenely cruel to the unbeliever…”

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Jack Vance

Источник: Short fiction, Future Tense (1964), Dodkin’s Job (p. 15)