Original: «Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts».
Fuente: Alsford, Mike. ThirdWay, Vol. 18, N.º 7. Artículo Journeys into inner space. Hymns Ancient & Modern Ltd, p. 21.
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Frases célebres de Brian Aldiss
Original: «One afternoon in early January, the weather showed a lack of character. There was no frost nor wind: the trees in the garden did not stir».
Fuente: Aldiss, Brian. A Report on Probability. HarperCollins UK, 2015. ISBN 9780007482412.
Fuente: A Report On Probability (1968).
Original: «When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of Hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay».
Fuente: Warwak, Dave. Peep Show for Children Only. Editorial Lulu.com, 2008. ISBN 9781435718173, p. 37.
Brian Aldiss: Frases en inglés
“-""Expansion to your ego, friend"".
-""At your expense"".”
Variante: Expansion to your ego, friend.
-At your expense.
“Basis for Negotiations” p. 124
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“Poor Little Warrior!” p. 80
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“If adolescence did not exist it would be unnecessary to invent it!”
“Poor Little Warrior!” p. 78
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“The only sort of tasks worth being set were impossible ones.”
“A Kind of Artistry” p. 175 (originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October 1962)
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
Brian W. Aldiss libro Greybeard
Fuente: Greybeard (1964), Chapter 3 “The River: Swifford Fair” (p. 75)
“Who Can Replace a Man?” p. 19 (originally published in Infinity Science Fiction, June 1958)
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“You are like all cruel men, sentimental; you are like all sentimental men; squeamish.”
“Poor Little Warrior!” p. 80
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, growing riotous and strange in their impulse for growth.”
Brian W. Aldiss libro Hothouse
Fuente: Hothouse (1962), Chapter 1 (first line)
Brian W. Aldiss libro Outside
Outside (1955)
“At least the mentor’s point was made: loneliness was psychological, not statistical.”
“Old Hundredth” p. 163
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“The day of the android has dawned.”
"Are You An Android?", Science Fantasy #34 (April 1959)
“Never, never let action become a substitute for thought.”
“Basis for Negotiations” p. 121 (originally published in New Worlds Science Fiction #114, January 1962)
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.”
Penguin Science Fiction (1961) Introduction
Brian W. Aldiss libro Greybeard
Fuente: Greybeard (1964), Chapter 2 “Cowley” (p. 47)
Brian W. Aldiss libro Greybeard
Fuente: Greybeard (1964), Chapter 3 (p. 91)
“Man was an accident on this world or it would have been made better for him!”
Brian W. Aldiss libro Hothouse
Fuente: Hothouse (1962), Chapter 18
“One of the characteristics of age was that all avenues of talk led backward in time.”
Brian W. Aldiss libro Greybeard
Fuente: Greybeard (1964), Chapter 1 “The River: Sparcot” (p. 21)
Brian W. Aldiss libro Hothouse
Fuente: Hothouse (1962), Chapter 22
“I’ve no objection to morality, except that it’s obsolete.”
Brian W. Aldiss libro Greybeard
Fuente: Greybeard (1964), Chapter 4 (p. 122)
“Man on Bridge” p. 87
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“Poor Little Warrior!” p. 78
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“However you envisage your role in life, all you can do is perform it as best you can.”
Brian W. Aldiss libro Greybeard
Fuente: Greybeard (1964), Chapter 7 (p. 203)
Brian W. Aldiss libro Greybeard
Fuente: Greybeard (1964), Chapter 4 (p. 112)
Let's Be Frank (1957)
Let's Be Frank (1957)
