1. Citáty
  2. Autoři
  3. Jack McDevitt

Jack McDevitt citáty
strana 2

Jack McDevitt is an American science fiction author whose novels frequently deal with attempts to make contact with alien races, and with archaeology or xenoarchaeology. His two main series are the Alex Benedict series and the Priscilla Hutchins series.

McDevitt's first published story was "The Emerson Effect" in The Twilight Zone Magazine in 1981. Five years later, he published his first novel, The Hercules Text, about the discovery of an intelligently conceived signal whose repercussions threaten human civilization. This novel set the tone for many of McDevitt's following novels, which focused on making first contact. Frequently this theme is mixed with both trepidation before the unknown and a sense of wonder at the universe.

With The Engines of God , McDevitt introduced the idea of a universe that was once teeming with intelligent life, but contains only their abandoned artifacts by the time humans arrive on the scene. Although it was initially written as a standalone novel, the main character of The Engines of God, pilot Priscilla Hutchins, has since appeared in seven more books, Deepsix , Chindi , Omega , Odyssey , Cauldron , StarHawk , and The Long Sunset . The mystery surrounding the destructive "Omega Clouds" is left unexplored until Omega.McDevitt's novels frequently raise questions which he does not attempt to answer. He prefers to leave ambiguities to puzzle and intrigue his readers: "Some things are best left to the reader's very able imagination." The SF Site's Steven H Silver has written about this:



McDevitt has a tendency to give the impression that his novels will go in one direction and then take them in a different direction. Or possibly his background is so well thought out, that throw away lines, or subplots, or minor characters, have enough information behind them to make the reader want to see their story as much as the main plot of the book. While slightly annoying, this is, I've decided, a strength of McDevitt's writing since it shows the depth of his created worlds.

The novel Seeker won the 2006 Nebula Award for Best Novel, given by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. He has been nominated for the Nebula Award sixteen times; Seeker is his only win. Wikipedia  

✵ 14. duben 1935
Jack McDevitt foto
Jack McDevitt: 125   citátů 3   lajky

Jack McDevitt: Citáty anglicky

“The cultures we can look at had already grasped the essential unity of nature. No board of gods can survive that knowledge.”

Help us translate this quote
Jack McDevitt

Zdroj: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, The Engines of God (1994), Chapter 8 (p. 107)

“Idiots are not responsible for what they do. The real guilt falls on rational people who sit on their hands while the morons run wild. You can opt out if you want to. Play it safe. But if you do, don’t complain when the roof comes down.”

Help us translate this quote
Jack McDevitt

Zdroj: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Odyssey (2006), Chapter 6 (p. 48)

““The media have gone berserk.”
“The media always go berserk. A kid falls off a bike in Montana, they’re all over it. Until something else happens.””

Help us translate this quote
Jack McDevitt

Zdroj: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Odyssey (2006), Chapter 32 (p. 292)

“The queen of virtues is the recognition of one’s own flaws.”

Help us translate this quote
Jack McDevitt

Zdroj: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Omega (2003), Chapter 33 (p. 349)

“The man was either foolish or fearless. Assuming there was a difference.”

Help us translate this quote
Jack McDevitt

Zdroj: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Chindi (2002), Chapter 10 (p. 139)

“Defend your opinion only if it can be shown to be true, not because it is your opinion.”

Help us translate this quote
Jack McDevitt

Zdroj: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Omega (2003), Chapter 33 (p. 348)

““Most of my business comes from picking up the pieces when people get things wrong.” She grinned. “I’ll never lack for work.””

Help us translate this quote
Jack McDevitt kniha Ancient Shores

Zdroj: Ancient Shores (1996), Chapter 10 (p. 99)

“So long as you believe in some truth you do not believe in yourself. You are a servant. A man of faith.”

Help us translate this quote
Jack McDevitt

Zdroj: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Chindi (2002), Chapter 12 (p. 158), quoting Max Stiner

“The kids were both adolescents, at that happy stage where they could simultaneously make him confident about the future while they were sabotaging the present.”

Help us translate this quote
Jack McDevitt

Zdroj: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Cauldron (2007), Chapter 22 (p. 190)

“Fiction is unlike reality because it has an end, a conclusion, which allows the characters to stroll happily, or perhaps simply more wisely, out through the climax into the epilogue. But life is a tapestry. It has no satisfactory end. There are simply periods of acceleration and delay, victory and frustration, seasoned with periodic jolts of reality.”

Help us translate this quote
Jack McDevitt

Zdroj: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Odyssey (2006), Chapter 44 (p. 412)

“Gambini was addicted to asking the sort of ultimate questions about which one could speculate endlessly with no fear of ever arriving at a solution.”

Help us translate this quote
Jack McDevitt kniha The Hercules Text

Zdroj: The Hercules Text (1986), Chapter 2 (p. 19)

“A man is entitled to only one great passion in a lifetime. Whether it’s music or a profession or a woman, everything else pales in its afterglow. The searing shock so changes one’s chemistry that if the object is lost, the experience can never be repeated. Only anticlimax remains.”

Help us translate this quote
Jack McDevitt kniha The Hercules Text

Zdroj: The Hercules Text (1986), Chapter 14 (p. 209)

“The notion that we need a higher power, that’s more a human failing than a reflection of reality. The universe pays no attention to what we need. Truth is what it is, and the inconveniences it might cause us don’t change anything.”

Help us translate this quote
Jack McDevitt

Zdroj: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Odyssey (2006), Chapter 22 (p. 203)

“(He was) tall and lean, an aristocrat by inclination, born into money and influence and never recovered.”

Help us translate this quote
Jack McDevitt

Zdroj: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Odyssey (2006), Chapter 41 (p. 391)

“If you're right, and nobody really cares what’s out there, I wonder whether we’re even worth saving.”

Help us translate this quote
Jack McDevitt

Zdroj: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Odyssey (2006), Chapter 4 (p. 36)

“Why is it that people want so desperately to shake hands with otherworldly beings? That people will even insist that they have seen visitors from Spica hovering above their backyards? In other times it was ghosts and fairies and goblins, and voices in the night. Is the company of our own species so dull that we need to invent the Other? On the other hand, maybe that explains it.”

Help us translate this quote
Jack McDevitt

Zdroj: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Odyssey (2006), Chapter 24 (p. 218)

“Max was the exception. He had no taste for military life or for the prospect of getting shot at. His father, Colonel Maxwell E. Collingwood, USAF (retired), to his credit, tried to hide his disappointment in his only son. But it was there nonetheless, and Max had, on more than one occasion, overheard him wondering aloud to Max’s mother whether there was anything at all to genetics.”

Help us translate this quote
Jack McDevitt kniha Ancient Shores

Zdroj: Ancient Shores (1996), Chapter 2 (p. 17)

“Yes, it was not journalism’s finest hour. But, MacAllister often argued, it never had been.”

Help us translate this quote
Jack McDevitt

Zdroj: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Odyssey (2006), Chapter 24 (p. 222)

“Freedom and idiots make a volatile mix. And the sad truth is that the idiocy quotient in the general population is alarmingly high.”

Help us translate this quote
Jack McDevitt

Zdroj: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Odyssey (2006), Chapter 7 (p. 59)

“How does it happen that the most intractable types always rise to the top?”

Help us translate this quote
Jack McDevitt

Zdroj: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, The Engines of God (1994), Chapter 6 (p. 81)

“Technology is dangerous.”
“How do you mean?”
“It can provide horrendous weapons to idiots.”

Help us translate this quote
Jack McDevitt

Zdroj: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Cauldron (2007), Chapter 26 (p. 242)

“Somewhere we taught ourselves that our opinions are more significant than the facts. And somehow we get our egos and our opinions and Truth all mixed up in a single package, so that when something does challenge one of the notions to which we subscribe, we react as if it challenges us.”

Help us translate this quote
Jack McDevitt

Zdroj: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Omega (2003), Chapter 41 (p. 404)

“Of course, they (i. e., demons) had always been observed with some regularity, but that could usually be ascribed to an overabundance of piety or wine or imagination. Take your pick.”

Help us translate this quote
Jack McDevitt

Zdroj: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Omega (2003), Chapter 45 (p. 439)

“The uplifters are forever running around telling blockheads they would do better if they would believe in themselves. But they already do. That is why they are blockheads.”

Help us translate this quote
Jack McDevitt

Zdroj: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Odyssey (2006), Chapter 29 (p. 262)

“When things go wrong, the standard management strategy is to decide who takes the blame. This should be an underling, as far down the chain as possible, but preferably with some visibility so people know management means business.”

Help us translate this quote
Jack McDevitt

Zdroj: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Odyssey (2006), Chapter 9 (p. 78)

“One could not always put safety up front as the prime goal. Do that, and who would ever achieve anything of note?”

Help us translate this quote
Jack McDevitt

Zdroj: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Chindi (2002), Chapter 14 (p. 191)

“There is no justice. There are occasional acts of vengeance, or regret, but there’s no real justice. In the natural scheme of things, it is not possible.”

Help us translate this quote
Jack McDevitt

Epilogue (p. 421)
Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Odyssey (2006)

“Henry had been around long enough to know better than to disagree. But he forgot to implement.”

Help us translate this quote
Jack McDevitt

Zdroj: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, The Engines of God (1994), Chapter 10 (p. 142)

“Ev was a careful man, a model of caution. He took pride in not committing to a view until all the facts were in. Which meant, of course, that he was never quite on board. Or in opposition.”

Help us translate this quote
Jack McDevitt kniha Ancient Shores

Zdroj: Ancient Shores (1996), Chapter 4 (p. 38)

“If you want creative and successful children, resign yourself to jousting with rebels.”

Help us translate this quote
Jack McDevitt

Zdroj: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Cauldron (2007), Chapter 9 (p. 96)

Podobní autoři

William Seward Burroughs foto
William Seward Burroughs 11
americký romanopisec, povídkář, esejista a malíř
Stan Lee foto
Stan Lee 5
americký komiksový scenárista
Sylvester Stallone foto
Sylvester Stallone 7
americký herec, scenárista a filmový režisér
Hunter S. Thompson foto
Hunter S. Thompson 11
americký novinář a spisovatel
Tim Allen foto
Tim Allen 1
americký herec, umělec a komik
Will Durant foto
Will Durant 15
americký historik, filozof a spisovatel
Clinton Rossiter foto
Clinton Rossiter 1
americký politolog
Irving Stone foto
Irving Stone 7
americký spisovatel
Clarence Darrow foto
Clarence Darrow 4
americký právník a vedoucí člen American Civil Liberties Un…
Stephen Sondheim foto
Stephen Sondheim 1
americký hudební skladatel a textař