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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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“Insane? To disobey a law of the universe was impossible, not insane.”

“Man in His Time” p. 201 (originally published in Science Fantasy, April 1965)
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)

“The shuffle only demonstrated people’s fatuous belief in a political cure for a human condition.”

Brian W. Aldiss kniha Greybeard

Zdroj: Greybeard (1964), Chapter 6 “London” (p. 170)

“To be a standard shape is not all in life. To know is also important.”

Brian W. Aldiss kniha Hothouse

Zdroj: Hothouse (1962), Chapter 5

““The intelligent have been overwhelmed by the dull. Is that not an invasion?”
“More, I would say, of a self-betrayal.””

“Man on Bridge” p. 83 (originally published in New Writings in SF 1, 1964)
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)

“There has always been a belief in miracles in the popular mind. As L. Sprague de Camp once said, the public would rather be bunked than debunked.”

Science Fiction on the Titanic, in Brian Aldiss and Harry Harrison (eds.) The Year's Best SF 9 (1976), ISBN 0-8600-7894-9, p. 205

“Aldiss’s second law of thermo-linguistics states that what is most popular is rarely best and that what is best is rarely most popular.”

Science Fiction on the Titanic, in Brian Aldiss and Harry Harrison (eds.) The Year's Best SF 9 (1976), ISBN 0-8600-7894-9, p. 201

“The greatest human achievement is to fulfil one’s destiny.”

Originally published in New Worlds Science Fiction, August 1965; reprinted in Michael Moorcock (ed.) Best SF Stories from New Worlds 4, p. 83
Short fiction, The Source (1965)

“There's a way outside. We're — we've got to find out what we are.”

Brian W. Aldiss kniha Outside

His voice rose to an hysterical pitch. He was shaking Calvin again. "We must find out what's wrong here. Either we are victims of some ghastly experiment — or we're all monsters!"
Outside (1955)

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