Frases de Brian Aldiss
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Brian Wilson Aldiss, OBE , fue un escritor inglés de ciencia ficción. Fue uno de los principales representantes de la llamada Nueva Ola de la ciencia ficción británica. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. agosto 1925 – 19. agosto 2017
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Frases célebres de Brian Aldiss

“La ciencia ficción no está más escrita para los científicos de lo que las historias de fantasmas están escritas para fantasmas.”

Brian Aldiss

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.

“Una tarde de principios de enero, el tiempo mostró falta de carácter. No había heladas ni viento: los árboles del jardín no se movían.”

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).

“Cuando muere la infancia, sus cadáveres se llaman adultos y entran en la sociedad, uno de los corteses nombres del Infierno. Es por eso que tememos a los niños, incluso si los amamos. Nos muestran el estado de nuestra decadencia.”

Brian Aldiss

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

“Carnage added to carnage does not equal peace.”

Brian W. Aldiss

“Basis for Negotiations” p. 152
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)

“Why should you be confused just because you come from a confused civilization?”

Brian W. Aldiss

“Poor Little Warrior!” p. 78 (originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 1958)
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)

“Why don’t you go somewhere quietly and consult your history books if you have no consciences to consult?”

Brian W. Aldiss

“Basis for Negotiations” p. 122
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)

“Relax, enjoy yourself. Have another drink. It’s patriotic to overconsume.”

Brian W. Aldiss libro Greybeard

Fuente: Greybeard (1964), Chapter 4 (p. 121)

“I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.”

Brian W. Aldiss

The Twinkling of an Eye: My Life as an Englishman (1998) Unsourced variant: "Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system."

“Most SF is about madness, or what is currently ruled to be madness; this is part of its attraction — it's always playing with how much the human mind can encompass.”

Brian W. Aldiss

"In Conversation: Brian Aldiss & James Blish" in Cypher (October 1973); republished in The Tale That Wags the God (1987) by James Blish

“The ability to change should not be despised.”

Brian W. Aldiss

“Basis for Negotiations” p. 139
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)

“What were several fewer species of animals compared with a hundred-mile advance and another medal on another general?”

Brian W. Aldiss libro Greybeard

Fuente: Greybeard (1964), Chapter 4 “Washington” (p. 110)

“It’s the duty of men in office not to be misled.”

Brian W. Aldiss

“Basis for Negotiations” p. 140
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)

“I kill from conviction, not to pass a personality quiz.”

Brian W. Aldiss

“Basis for Negotiations” p. 143
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)

“Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.”

Brian W. Aldiss

"Apéritif" in Bury My Heart at W.H. Smith's (1990)

“If more people had put their fellow human beings before abstractions last century, we shouldn’t be where we are now.”

Brian W. Aldiss libro Greybeard

Fuente: Greybeard (1964), Chapter 7 “The River: The End” (p. 190)

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