Frases de James Blish

Fuente: Short fiction, A Style in Treason (1970), Chapter 9 (p. 154)

Fuente: The Quincunx of Time (1973), Chapter 10, “Weinbaum on Sinai” (p. 116)

Prologue, “A Frame on Randolph” (p. 18)
The Quincunx of Time (1973)

Fuente: The Quincunx of Time (1973), Chapter 8, “The Courtship of Posi and Nega” (p. 84; ellipsis in the original)

Fuente: Short fiction, Midsummer Century (1972), Chapter 9 (p. 61)

Fuente: A Case of Conscience (1958), Chapter 12 (pp. 149-150)

Fuente: The Quincunx of Time (1973), Chapter 8, “The Courtship of Posi and Nega” (p. 89)

Fuente: Short fiction, Midsummer Century (1972), Chapter 9 (p. 63)

Fuente: A Case of Conscience (1958), Chapter 17 (p. 206)

Fuente: A Case of Conscience (1958), Chapter 13 (p. 158)

Fuente: The Quincunx of Time (1973), Chapter 7, “A Few Cosmic Jokes” (p. 72)

Fuente: Short fiction, Midsummer Century (1972), Chapter 11 (p. 80)

Fuente: A Case of Conscience (1958), Chapter 18 (p. 213)

Fuente: The Quincunx of Time (1973), Chapter 7, “A Few Cosmic Jokes” (p. 77)

Fuente: The Quincunx of Time (1973), Chapter 10, “Weinbaum on Sinai” (pp. 118-119)

Fuente: Short fiction, Midsummer Century (1972), Chapter 10 (p. 78)

Fuente: Short fiction, Midsummer Century (1972), Chapter 3 (p. 21)

Fuente: The Quincunx of Time (1973), Chapter 7, “A Few Cosmic Jokes” (p. 75)

Fuente: Short fiction, Midsummer Century (1972), Chapter 9 (p. 62)

Fuente: The Quincunx of Time (1973), Chapter 9, “A Comity of Futures” (p. 105)

Fuente: A Case of Conscience (1958), Chapter 14 (p. 171)

“What is?” Wald said, raising his eyebrows.
“Nothing, of course. But hope springs eternal in the human spleen.”
Fuente: The Quincunx of Time (1973), Chapter 7, “A Few Cosmic Jokes” (p. 77)

“In what way?” the countess said, not very much interested.
“It seems to be based on reverence for the young, and an extremely patient and protective attitude toward their physical and mental welfare. Yet you make them live in these huge caves, utterly out of contact with the natural world, and you teach them to be afraid of death—which of course makes them a little insane, because there is nothing anybody can do about death. It is like teaching them to be afraid of the second law of thermodynamics, just because living matter sets that law aside for a very brief period.
Fuente: A Case of Conscience (1958), Chapter 12 (pp. 149-150)

Fuente: …And All the Stars a Stage (1971; [serialized in 1960]), Chapter 14 (p. 186)

Fuente: …And All the Stars a Stage (1971; [serialized in 1960]), Chapter 13 (p. 180)

Fuente: The Day After Judgment (1971), Chapter 13 (p. 161)

Fuente: The Day After Judgment (1971), Chapter 11 (p. 145)

Fuente: Black Easter (1968), Chapter 12 (p. 110)

Fuente: Black Easter (1968), Chapter 2 (p. 36)