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Адам Чарльз Робертс — английский писатель и критик. Он также пишет пародии под псевдонимами A.R.R.R. Roberts, A3R Roberts и Дон Брин.

Робертс получил учёную степень в Абердинском университете, получил степень доктора философии в Кембриджском университете по Роберту Браунингу и классической литературе. Преподавал английскую литературу и литературное творчество в Лондонском университете Роял Холловей. Он трижды номинировался на премию Артура Кларка: в 2001 году за дебютный роман «Соль», в 2007 году за «Gradisil» и в 2010 году за «Yellow Blue Tibia». В 2012 году он получил премию Британской ассоциации научной фантастики и мемориальную премию Джона В. Кэмпбелла за лучший научно-фантастический роман «Стеклянный Джек». Wikipedia  

✵ 30. Июнь 1965
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Робертс, Адам: Цитаты на английском языке

““You must register your disagreement, must you Monsieur?” he said, in a level voice. “Consider it registered. Consider it simultaneously disregarded.””

Adam Roberts книга Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea

Источник: Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea (2014), Chapter 9, “The Light” (p. 80)

“So it ends
As it begins.
Off we climb
And no one wins.”

Adam Roberts книга Jack Glass: The Story of a Murderer

From Thom Gunn, “Seesaw” quoted in Part 3, “The Impossible Gun” Epigram (p. 261).
Jack Glass (2012)

““Do you know what this is?
“The floor, Miss?”
“Dust! I read about it—tiny particles of matter.””

Adam Roberts книга Jack Glass: The Story of a Murderer

Part 2, Chapter 7, “The Investigation Begins” (p. 163).
Jack Glass (2012)

“His last hours alive. But he didn’t know!
None of us will know, of course. The weird grammar of death. You die, he or she dies, they die, but there is no genuine form for “I”. Not really. All know that, none know when.”

Adam Roberts книга Jack Glass: The Story of a Murderer

Part 2, “The FTL Murders” Chapter 1, “The Mystery of the Hammered Handservant” (p. 101).
Jack Glass (2012)

““Come out,” Sukarno cried into the vegetation. “I have a gun!”
“Mr. Sukarno,” said Iago, without looking at him. “You are, if you don’t mind me saying, too fond of shouting ‘I have a gun.’””

Adam Roberts книга Jack Glass: The Story of a Murderer

Part 3, “The Impossible Gun” Chapter 5, “The Search” (p. 315).
Jack Glass (2012)

“People-problems did not interest her. Data seemed to her a larger, purer, more transcendent quantity than Homo sapiensness. Human-to-human interactions were, effectively, all just politics, and politics bored her.”

Adam Roberts книга Jack Glass: The Story of a Murderer

Part 2, Chapter 4, “The Mystery of the Champagne Supernovae” (p. 122).
Jack Glass (2012)

“The situation on, on earth is complicated.”

Adam Roberts книга Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea

“You mean politics?” Dakkar spat the word, with immeasurable contempt.
Источник: Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea (2014), Chapter 24, “Dakkar” (p. 228)

“You must register your disagreement, must you Monsieur?”

Adam Roberts книга Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea

he said, in a level voice. “Consider it registered. Consider it simultaneously disregarded.”
Источник: Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea (2014), Chapter 9, “The Light” (p. 80)

“It’s not right. A human being is a human being. A human being is not a toy.”

Adam Roberts книга Jack Glass: The Story of a Murderer

“We cannot help but use the people below us as a resource, my love,” said her two MOHmies, as one. “That is what it means to be in power. Your choice is to relinquish power forever, or to accept that and use people for good.”...
“If we are powerful,” sang her MOHmies, “we can make things better, but we are made unclean by the fact that we have power. If we are powerless we remain clean, but we cannot make things better.”
Part 2, Chapter 13, “Of Multitudes” (p. 240).
Jack Glass (2012)