Ian McDonald citáty

Ian McDonald je britský spisovatel science fiction. Žije v Belfastu.

✵ 31. březen 1960
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“A chilly piety leaked into the air.”

Ian McDonald kniha Desolation Road

Zdroj: Desolation Road (1988), Chapter 49 (p. 248).

“"The words still don't move."
"The words don't need to move. It is you who is moved by them."”

Ian McDonald kniha River of Gods

Zdroj: 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 kniha Desolation Road

Zdroj: Desolation Road (1988), Chapter 54 (p. 270).

“He has no belief—faith is beneath his dignity—but he enjoys the designed madness of religion.”

Ian McDonald kniha The Dervish House

Zdroj: The Dervish House (2010), Ch. 1, §5 (p. 21)

“Half your DNA's owned by some biotech corporation. Every time you have sex, you break copyright.”

Ian McDonald kniha River of Gods

Zdroj: River of Gods (2006), Ch. 5 (p. 58).

“His theory of golf is, never play any sport that requires you to dress as your grandfather.”

Ian McDonald kniha River of Gods

Zdroj: River of Gods (2006), Ch. 20 (p. 249).

“I've always found that the root of a computer problem is human frailty”

Ian McDonald kniha River of Gods

Zdroj: River of Gods (2006), Ch. 2 (p. 27).

“The elephants fight but the rats go about their business.”

Ian McDonald kniha River of Gods

Zdroj: River of Gods (2006), Ch. 44 (p. 458).

“It was fate, and being angry at fate was as futile as being angry at the weather.”

Ian McDonald kniha Desolation Road

Zdroj: Desolation Road (1988), Chapter 23 (p. 116).

“She had trapped the bird of salvation, sung to it, tamed it and wrung its neck.”

Ian McDonald kniha Desolation Road

Zdroj: Desolation Road (1988), Chapter 32 (p. 168).

“Once muddying subjectivities are removed from the issue, the decision becomes clear.”

Ian McDonald kniha Desolation Road

Zdroj: Desolation Road (1988), Chapter 49 (p. 247).

“Only miscalculation could kill you in interstellar war. The equations were hard but they were fair.”

Ian McDonald kniha The Tear

In Galactic Empires, edited by Gardner Dozois, reprinted in Rich Horton (ed.), The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2009 (p. 506)
Short fiction, The Tear (2008)

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