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Brian Wilson Aldiss byl britský autor science fiction řazený mezi autory tzv. Nové vlny. Mezi jeho nejznámější díla patří román Nonstop a trilogie Helikonie. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. srpen 1925 – 19. srpen 2017
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“-""Expansion to your ego, friend"".
-""At your expense"".”

Varianta: Expansion to your ego, friend.
-At your expense.

“If you think with your emotions, slight glandular changes are sufficient to revise your entire outlook.”

“Basis for Negotiations” p. 124
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)

“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 kniha Hothouse

Zdroj: Hothouse (1962), Chapter 1 (first line)

“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)

“Man was an accident on this world or it would have been made better for him!”

Brian W. Aldiss kniha Hothouse

Zdroj: Hothouse (1962), Chapter 18

“One of the characteristics of age was that all avenues of talk led backward in time.”

Brian W. Aldiss kniha Greybeard

Zdroj: Greybeard (1964), Chapter 1 “The River: Sparcot” (p. 21)

“I’ve no objection to morality, except that it’s obsolete.”

Brian W. Aldiss kniha Greybeard

Zdroj: Greybeard (1964), Chapter 4 (p. 122)

“However you envisage your role in life, all you can do is perform it as best you can.”

Brian W. Aldiss kniha Greybeard

Zdroj: Greybeard (1964), Chapter 7 (p. 203)

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