Poul Anderson citáty

Poul William Anderson byl americký spisovatel science fiction, jehož dílo přesahovalo do fantasy. Řadí se k autorům tzv. Zlatého věku sci-fi. Mezi jeho nejznámější díla patří Strážci času , Kosmičtí křižáci a Tři srdce, tři lvi. Wikipedia  

✵ 25. listopad 1926 – 31. červenec 2001
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“On our Earth, we’ve perforce learned all the knavery there is to know.”

Poul Anderson kniha The High Crusade

Zdroj: The High Crusade (1960), p. 131

“Men, whose span is cruelly short, rush nonetheless to death in their youth as to a maiden’s arms.”

Poul Anderson kniha The Broken Sword

Zdroj: The Broken Sword (1954), Chapter 10 (p. 55)

“You know what they say about bold spacemen never becoming old spacemen.”

"Garden in the Void" (1952)
Short fiction

“You should pay no heed to what some yokel priest has prated of. What does he know?”

Poul Anderson kniha The Broken Sword

Zdroj: The Broken Sword (1954), Chapter 11 (p. 70)

“I walk beyond town, many of these nights, to stand under the high autumnal stars, look upward and wonder.”

Poul Anderson kniha There Will Be Time

Zdroj: There Will Be Time (1972), Chapter 16 (p. 176; closing words)

“Another irritating thing about Naqsans was their habit of solemnly repeating the obvious. In that respect they were almost as bad as humans.”

Poul Anderson kniha The Star Fox

Section 2 “Arsenal Port”, Chapter III (p. 90)
The Star Fox (1965)

“We live with our archetypes, but can we live in them?”

"The Fatal Fulfillment" (Short Story), March 1970. Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
Short fiction

“Missile: A self-contained device which delivers high explosives from the air, condemned because of its effects upon women, children, the aged, the sick, and other non-combatants, unless these happen to have resided in Saigon, Da Nang, Hué, etc. Cf. bombing.”

Poul Anderson kniha There Will Be Time

Varianta: Bombing: A method of warfare which delivers high explosives from the air, condemned because of its effects upon women, children, the aged, the sick, and other non-combatants, unless these happen to have resided in Berlin, Hamburg, Dresden, Tokyo, Osaka, etc., though not Hiroshima or Nagasaki. Cf. missile.
Zdroj: There Will Be Time (1972), Chapter 3 (p. 30)

“Too far a retreat from reality is insanity.”

Poul Anderson kniha Brain Wave

Zdroj: Brain Wave (1954), Chapter 10 (p. 82)

“Holger wished he had read the old tales more closely; he had only a dim childhood recollection of them.”

Poul Anderson kniha Three Hearts and Three Lions

Zdroj: Three Hearts and Three Lions (1961), Chapter 10 (p. 88)

“As evil waxes, the very men who stand for good will in their fear use ever worse means o’ fighting, and thereby give evil a free beachhead.”

Poul Anderson kniha Three Hearts and Three Lions

Zdroj: Three Hearts and Three Lions (1961), Chapter 12 (p. 102)

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