"Tire Devourers want only to amass cash and to raise little ones like themselves to amass more cash and they want to compete with each other at cash-amassing. <…> And the Devourers want to brood about their great service to the many universes — it is their claim that servile customers make the most obedient subjects for the gods —and to complain about how the work of amassing cash torture their mind and frustrating their digestions. Beyond this, each of the Devourers also secretly collects and hides away forever, to delight no eyes but his own, all the finest objects and thoughts created by true men and women (and true wizards and true demons) and bought by the Devourers at bankruptcy prices and paid for with trash or this is their ultimate preference—with nothing at all.
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перевод: И. Русецкий, 1994
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“Work and pray,
Live on hay.
You’ll get pie
In the sky
When you die—
It’s a lie!”
“Bread Overhead” (p. 121); originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction, February 1958; alluding to the song The Preacher and the Slave.
Short Fiction, A Pail of Air (1964)
“There was an omnipresent sense of crisis.”
Источник: The Wanderer (1964), Chapter 33 (p. 259).
“A Pail of Air” (p. 20); originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction, December 1951
Short Fiction, A Pail of Air (1964)
“The 64-Square Madhouse” (p. 74); originally published in If, May 1962
Short Fiction, A Pail of Air (1964)
“Diary in the Snow” (p. 203); originally published in the first edition of Night's Black Agents (1947)
Short Fiction, Night's Black Agents (1947)
Short Fiction, Bazaar of the Bizarre (1963)
“Devils may be nothing but beings intent on their purpose, which now happens to collide with yours.”
Источник: The Wanderer (1964), Chapter 16 (p. 113).
“Time Fighter” (p. 67); originally published in Fantastic Universe, March 1957
Short Fiction, A Pail of Air (1964)
“A scientist ought to have a healthy disregard for coincidences.”
Источник: Conjure Wife (1953), Chapter 3 (p. 39).
Originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction, July 1951, under the title "Appointment in Tomorrow".
Short Fiction, Poor Superman (1951)
“The Hill and the Hole” (p. 165); originally published in Unknown Worlds, August 1942
Short Fiction, Night's Black Agents (1947)
“For that matter, where did I get off being critical of anyone?”
The Big Time (1958)
“Things are different from what I thought. They’re much worse.”
Источник: Conjure Wife (1953), Chapter 20 (p. 209).
Short Fiction, Catch that Zeppelin! (1975)
Short Fiction, Bazaar of the Bizarre (1963)
Источник: Bazaar of the Bizarre (p. 234) note: Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939-1988), Swords Against Death (1970)
