Kim Stanley Robinson je americký spisovatel sci-fi, který není v Česku příliš znám. Nositel ceny Nebula za svůj román o kolonizaci a terraformaci Marsu. I když se narodil v Waukeganu, brzy po narození se jeho rodina přestěhovala do Kalifornie, kde strávil začátek svého života. Oženil se s Lisou Howlandovou Nowellovou.
Kim Stanley Robinson kniha Galileo's Dream
Zdroj: Galileo's Dream (2009), Ch. 15, p. 354; note: though this statement is incorporated into the story as one Galileo spoke, it is actually a quotation of one he historically made in his Dialogue Concerning The Two Chief World Systems http://www4.ncsu.edu/~kimler/hi322/Dialogue-extracts.html as translated by Stillman Drake.
Kim Stanley Robinson kniha The Years of Rice and Salt
Book 9: "Nsara", § 5
The Years of Rice and Salt (2002)
Kim Stanley Robinson kniha Galileo's Dream
Zdroj: Galileo's Dream (2009), Ch. 13, p. 282
Kim Stanley Robinson kniha The Years of Rice and Salt
Book 2: "The Haj in the Heart", Ch. 5
The Years of Rice and Salt (2002)
“The sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time.”
Kim Stanley Robinson kniha Galileo's Dream
Zdroj: Galileo's Dream (2009), Ch. 15, p. 354
Kim Stanley Robinson kniha Galileo's Dream
For anyone who had experienced just once the understanding of one single thing, thus truly tasting how knowledge is accomplished, would then recognize that of the infinity of other truths, he understands nothing. <br class="br">Zdroj: Galileo's Dream (2009), Ch. 15, p. 354; note: though this statement is incorporated into the story as one Galileo spoke, it is actually a quotation of one he historically made in his Dialogue Concerning The Two Chief World Systems http://www4.ncsu.edu/~kimler/hi322/Dialogue-extracts.html as translated by Stillman Drake.
“You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one fucking idiot.”
Kim Stanley Robinson kniha Green Mars
Coyote
Green Mars (1993)
Kim Stanley Robinson kniha The Years of Rice and Salt
Book 3: "Ocean Continents"
The Years of Rice and Salt (2002)
Zdroj: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 14, “Phoenix Lake” (p. 750)
Zdroj: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 14, “Phoenix Lake” (p. 748)
Zdroj: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 14, “Phoenix Lake” (pp. 746-747)
“We’ve moved beyond our ability to understand our technology.”
Zdroj: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 13, “Experimental Procedures” (p. 692)
they weren’t always
Zdroj: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 13, “Experimental Procedures” (p. 657)
“No—living on after the memory died was mere farce, pointless and awful.”
Zdroj: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 13, “Experimental Procedures” (p. 644)
Zdroj: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 12, “It Goes So Fast” (p. 621)
“Ah, never fear; death could be trusted to show up. No doubt well before she wanted it.”
Zdroj: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 12, “It Goes So Fast” (p. 603)
“Immigration worked as a time machine, bringing up little islands of the past into the present.”
Zdroj: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 12, “It Goes So Fast” (p. 598)
Zdroj: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 12, “It Goes So Fast” (p. 566)
Zdroj: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 12, “It Goes So Fast” (p. 563)
Zdroj: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 11, “Viriditas” (p. 483)
“It’s amazing what superstitions survive in fearful minds.”
Zdroj: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 10, “Werteswandel” (p. 462)
Zdroj: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 9, “Natural History” (p. 433)
Zdroj: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 8, “The Green and the White” (p. 393)
“A change in the form of government, why should that make a difference in the way he lived?”
Zdroj: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 8, “The Green and the White” (p. 381)
“Could politics ever be anything but politics, practical, cynical, compromised, ugly?”
Zdroj: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 8, “The Green and the White” (p. 363)
“Tourism is an ugly business, it’s not fit work for human beings. It’s hosting parasites.”
Zdroj: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 5, “Home At Last” (p. 239)
“Power is like matter, it has gravity, it clumps and then starts to draw more into itself.”
Zdroj: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 4, “Green Earth” (p. 166)
Zdroj: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 3, “A New Constitution” (p. 156)
Zdroj: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 3, “A New Constitution” (p. 156)
Zdroj: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 3, “A New Constitution” (pp. 128-129)
