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]
Frases Ian McDonald
„Nationalism, then Islamism, both twentieth-century inventions, destroyed the Greek civilization in Egypt that had endured for three thousand years.“
— Ian McDonald, libro The Dervish House
Fuente: The Dervish House (2010), Ch. 5, §1 (p. 158)
„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)
„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).
„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).
„These songs were the true names of things, spoken by the soul, so easily buried under the little busynesses of everyman everyday.“
— Ian McDonald, libro Desolation Road
Fuente: Desolation Road (1988), Chapter 22 (p. 111).
„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).
„His theory of golf is, never play any sport that requires you to dress as your grandfather.“
— Ian McDonald, libro River of Gods
Fuente: River of Gods (2006), Ch. 20 (p. 249).
„It was fate, and being angry at fate was as futile as being angry at the weather.“
— Ian McDonald, libro Desolation Road
Fuente: Desolation Road (1988), Chapter 23 (p. 116).
„The laws of economics are subject to the laws of physics. The physical processes that govern this planet and the continued life upon it place as stringent an upper limit on economic growth as the speed of light does on our knowledge of the universe.“
— Ian McDonald, libro River of Gods
Fuente: River of Gods (2006), Ch. 9 (p. 93).
„Once muddying subjectivities are removed from the issue, the decision becomes clear.“
— Ian McDonald, libro Desolation Road
Fuente: Desolation Road (1988), Chapter 49 (p. 247).
„Half your DNA's owned by some biotech corporation. Every time you have sex, you break copyright.“
— Ian McDonald, libro River of Gods
Fuente: River of Gods (2006), Ch. 5 (p. 58).
„I've always found that the root of a computer problem is human frailty“
— Ian McDonald, libro River of Gods
Fuente: River of Gods (2006), Ch. 2 (p. 27).
„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).
„The five minutes ticked away on Limaal Mandella’s fob watch and the tension wound tight around Corporation Plaza. Rael Mandella Jr., sweating in his father’s best championship suit, was horrified to realize how few of such brief five-minute periods went to make up a lifetime.“
— Ian McDonald, libro Desolation Road
Fuente: Desolation Road (1988), Chapter 47 (p. 238).
