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Adam Roberts, né le 30 juin 1965 à Croydon dans le Sud de Londres, est un écrivain britannique de science-fiction et de fantasy. Wikipedia  

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Adam Roberts: Citations en anglais

““You must register your disagreement, must you Monsieur?” he said, in a level voice. “Consider it registered. Consider it simultaneously disregarded.””

Adam Roberts livre Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea

Source: Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea (2014), Chapter 9, “The Light” (p. 80)

“So it ends
As it begins.
Off we climb
And no one wins.”

Adam Roberts livre Jack Glass: The Story of a Murderer

From Thom Gunn, “Seesaw” quoted in Part 3, “The Impossible Gun” Epigram (p. 261).
Jack Glass (2012)

““Do you know what this is?
“The floor, Miss?”
“Dust! I read about it—tiny particles of matter.””

Adam Roberts livre Jack Glass: The Story of a Murderer

Part 2, Chapter 7, “The Investigation Begins” (p. 163).
Jack Glass (2012)

“His last hours alive. But he didn’t know!
None of us will know, of course. The weird grammar of death. You die, he or she dies, they die, but there is no genuine form for “I”. Not really. All know that, none know when.”

Adam Roberts livre Jack Glass: The Story of a Murderer

Part 2, “The FTL Murders” Chapter 1, “The Mystery of the Hammered Handservant” (p. 101).
Jack Glass (2012)

“The situation on, on earth is complicated.”

Adam Roberts livre Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea

“You mean politics?” Dakkar spat the word, with immeasurable contempt.
Source: Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea (2014), Chapter 24, “Dakkar” (p. 228)

“You must register your disagreement, must you Monsieur?”

Adam Roberts livre Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea

he said, in a level voice. “Consider it registered. Consider it simultaneously disregarded.”
Source: Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea (2014), Chapter 9, “The Light” (p. 80)

“It’s not right. A human being is a human being. A human being is not a toy.”

Adam Roberts livre Jack Glass: The Story of a Murderer

“We cannot help but use the people below us as a resource, my love,” said her two MOHmies, as one. “That is what it means to be in power. Your choice is to relinquish power forever, or to accept that and use people for good.”...
“If we are powerful,” sang her MOHmies, “we can make things better, but we are made unclean by the fact that we have power. If we are powerless we remain clean, but we cannot make things better.”
Part 2, Chapter 13, “Of Multitudes” (p. 240).
Jack Glass (2012)

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