Frases de Ian McDonald
Ian McDonald
Fecha de nacimiento: 31. Marzo 1960
Ian McDonald es un escritor de ciencia ficción y fantasía galés-irlandés.[1] Hijo de madre irlandesa y padre escocés, en 1965 se mudó junto a su familia a Irlanda del Norte.[2]
Sus novelas y cuentos a menudo hacen referencia a la situación en Irlanda del Norte, y hacen mención a los conflictos periódicos entre dos poblaciones con diferencias religiosas de origen. En Sacrifice of Fools por ejemplo, relata los conflictos que se producen con la llegada de extraterrestres.
En 2004, su novela River of Gods recibió el Premio BSFA, que además le valió una nominación para el Premio Hugo a la mejor novela.[3] En 2007, vuelve a ganar el Premio BSFA por la novela Brasyl, la que recibe una nueva nominación al Premio Hugo.[4][5]
Su novela corta The Djinn's Wife ganó el Premio Hugo al mejor relato en 2007,[6] además de recibir nuevamente un Premio BSFA. También ha recibido dos Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire por las traducciones de sus novelas King of Morning, Queen of Day en 2009 y por River of Gods' en 2011.[4] Wikipedia
Frases Ian McDonald
„She knew what she was now. She had a purpose. Freedom was still hers, but it was a purposeful freedom. She would seek responsibility, for freedom without responsibility was worthless, and to that duality she would add power, for responsibility without power was impotence. She would go to Wisdom and enthrone the trinity of liberties within herself.“
— Ian McDonald, libro Desolation Road
Fuente: Desolation Road (1988), Chapter 31 (p. 162).
„Economics is the most human of sciences. It is the science of wants and frustrations. It is psychology subject to the abstract, amplifying forces of mathematics.“
— Ian McDonald, libro The Dervish House
Fuente: The Dervish House (2010), Ch. 2, §8 (p. 72)
„How proud he would have felt […] to have seen those seeds germinate into a Muslim nation, a Land of the Pure. How it would have broken his heart to see that Land of the Pure become a medieval theocracy and then rip itself apart in tribal factionalism. The Word of God prophecies from the barrel of an AK47.“
— Ian McDonald, libro River of Gods
Fuente: River of Gods (2006), Ch. 37 (p. 411).
„A chilly piety leaked into the air.“
— Ian McDonald, libro Desolation Road
Fuente: Desolation Road (1988), Chapter 49 (p. 248).
„It was not socialism or communism or Islamism. It was romanticism. There is no more incandescent passion than love in a time of revolution.“
— Ian McDonald, libro The Dervish House
Fuente: The Dervish House (2010), Ch. 6, §8 (p. 223)
„"This is now a matter of national security, sir."
"This is Franz Kafka, is what it is."
Tom Hanks looks at chair-rocker, who writes the name down.
"He's a Czech writer," Thomas Lull says. "He's been dead a hundred years. I was attempting irony."
"Sir, please do not attempt irony. This is a most serious issue."“
— Ian McDonald, libro River of Gods
Fuente: River of Gods (2006), Ch. 42 (p. 444).
„Ayşe Erkoç learned long ago that the secret of doing anything illicit in Istanbul is to do it in full public gaze in the clear light of day. No one ever questions the legitimacy of the blatant.“
— Ian McDonald, libro The Dervish House
Fuente: The Dervish House (2010), Ch. 7, §7 (p. 251).
„She had not won a clean victory. Tinkering with time and history offended her political sensibilities. History was written in the stones. It was not a numinous thing to be tossed sparkling in the air to lie where it fell. She did not like to think of her life and world as a mere mutability of potentials.“
— Ian McDonald, libro Desolation Road
Fuente: Desolation Road (1988), Chapter 64 (p. 327).
„“Hey!” the people cried in their dreams. “Give us back our ghosts!” for ghosts are as much a part of a community as its plumbing or its library, for how can a community be without its memories?“
— Ian McDonald, libro Desolation Road
Fuente: Desolation Road (1988), Chapter 18 (p. 94).
„"The words still don't move."
"The words don't need to move. It is you who is moved by them."“
— Ian McDonald, libro River of Gods
Fuente: River of Gods (2006), Ch. 19 (p. 239).
„Ghosts? Pah. We are the most substantial things in the world, the foundations of the present. We are memories.“
— Ian McDonald, libro Desolation Road
Fuente: Desolation Road (1988), Chapter 54 (p. 270).
„The closer they come to the object of desire the more reluctant they are to grasp it. The search is the thing. The process is the purpose. The final mystery can only be anticlimactic. The story is ended.“
— Ian McDonald, libro The Dervish House
Fuente: The Dervish House (2010), Ch. 6, §2 (p. 207)
„He has no belief—faith is beneath his dignity—but he enjoys the designed madness of religion.“
— Ian McDonald, libro The Dervish House
Fuente: The Dervish House (2010), Ch. 1, §5 (p. 21)
„Profit, Empire, Industry. What was a dead lake, a few poisoned rivers, a few slagged hillsides? Priorities, that was what it was about. Priorities and Progress.“
— Ian McDonald, libro Desolation Road
Fuente: Desolation Road (1988), Chapter 56 (p. 276).
„At some point it will inevitably crash again: as weapons of mass destruction go, unrestricted market economies are among the more subtle but sure.“
— Ian McDonald, libro The Dervish House
Fuente: The Dervish House (2010), Ch. 4, §7 (p. 140)
