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Linwood Vrooman Carter, né le 9 juin 1930 à St. Petersburg en Floride et mort le 7 février 1988 à Montclair dans le New Jersey, est un romancier américain de science-fiction et de fantasy, ainsi qu'un éditeur et critique. Après avoir servi en Corée, il suivit un cursus à l'université Columbia. Il fut rédacteur publicitaire pendant quelques années avant de devenir écrivain à plein temps.

Carter avait une tendance marquée à l'auto-promotion dans son travail, citant fréquemment ses propres écrits dans ses œuvres non-fictionnelles comme exemples. Il incluait également toujours au moins un de ses récits dans les anthologies qu'il éditait. L'exemple le plus extrême provient de la nouvelle Lankar de Callisto , où il se met en scène lui-même comme protagoniste.

En tant qu'auteur, il était membre du club littéraire masculin Les araignées de la Trappe , qui servit de base au groupe fictionnel des Veufs Noirs de l'écrivain Isaac Asimov. Carter lui-même fut le modèle avéré du personnage de Mario Gonzalo, l'un des veufs en question. Il était également membre de la SAGA - Guilde américaine des épéistes et sorciers , un groupe informel d'auteurs d'heroic fantasy fondé dans les années 1960. Carter signa d'ailleurs des anthologies des œuvres du groupe en question dans sa série des Flashing Swords!. Carter est habituellement associé à Lyon Sprague de Camp, autre écrivain de science-fiction et de fantasy, qui lui servit de mentor et de collaborateur sur plusieurs projets et qui fut, lui-aussi, un membre des Araignées de la Trappe et de SAGA. C'est avec lui qu'il signa par exemple la publication en recueil des aventures de Conan le Barbare à la fin des années 1960.

Fumeur invétéré, Carter développa un cancer de la bouche dans sa vieillesse et dut endurer de lourdes opérations chirurgicales qui l'ont en partie défiguré pour combattre la maladie. Cependant, son cancer ne fut pas éradiqué et s'étendit assez rapidement à la gorge, menant à sa mort en 1988. Wikipedia

✵ 9. juin 1930 – 7. février 1988

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Lin Carter: Citations en anglais

“The young curate, already pale to the lips, rolled his eyes up until only the whites showed, and began to pray in a trembling, feeble voice. Raised in an ecclesiastical society, where the tenets of the Faith are never argued, having long ago all been decided upon, he had never before been exposed to any difference of opinion on such holy matters. It was, indeed, for him an earth-shaking experience even to be listening to these hideous and pandemonial hallucinations, these nauseously original ideas, each of which gnawed at the roots of his sanity like a voracious worm, until the poor fellow felt his reason began to totter and the foundations of his faith began to shudder and reel.”

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Lin Carter livre The Wizard of Zao

Source: The Wizard of Zao (1978), Chapter 5 (pp. 61-62)

“Yes, a woman makes a fine weapon in capable hands…slim and supple as a sword blade…and a blade to which no man’s armor is completely proof.”

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Source: Tower at the Edge of Time (1968), Chapter 9, “Slaves of Chan” (p. 86)

“Chan’s heart knew only greed, but there was within him enough intelligence to wonder before a man who could see all the uselessness of life, and still exult in the possessing of it.”

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Source: Tower at the Edge of Time (1968), Chapter 13, “The Scarlet Tower” (p. 125)

“It pleased Oolb Votz on this occasion to recommend himself to The God in His Aspect of Kaphoom the Sly, Patron of Confidence Men, Charlatans, Swindlers, Phonies, Advertising Executive, and All Priests.”

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Lin Carter livre The Wizard of Zao

Source: The Wizard of Zao (1978), Chapter 10 (p. 127)

“Day dawned, as day generally does, in so spectacular a manner as to seem rather show-offy were it to be encountered among any less significant meteorological phenomena.”

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Lin Carter livre The Wizard of Zao

Source: The Wizard of Zao (1978), Chapter 10 (p. 125)

“The past has lost, as it always loses; the future has won, as it always wins.”

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Source: Time War (1974), Chapter 15, “The Crisis Point” (p. 155)

“Knowing that you possess a talent is half the battle in mastering it.”

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Source: Time War (1974), Chapter 12, “The Metal Brain” (p. 128)

““Umm,” said Ooo, dubiously.
“Do I detect a questioning tone in your voice?” inquired the bird tartly. “Which might imply that you find a flaw in my reasoning?””

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Lin Carter livre The Wizard of Zao

Source: The Wizard of Zao (1978), Chapter 5 (p. 65)

“I am not complaining, mind you,” the simurgh was saying in a grumpy, peevish tone of voice a while later, “I was merely pointing out that when one must tamper with the forces of nature, it is better to err on the side of caution and of prudence, than to be too liberal.”

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Lin Carter livre The Wizard of Zao

Source: The Wizard of Zao (1978), Chapter 4 (p. 47)

“What use to covet loot, when even stars must die?”

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Source: Tower at the Edge of Time (1968), Chapter 13, “The Scarlet Tower” (p. 124)

““What’s a simurgh?”
“A member of the winged species avian simurghi,” sniffed the simurgh. “Easy to identify because of his gorgeous plumage, ready wit, intelligent conversation, amiable disposition, and fabulous abilities.””

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Lin Carter livre The Wizard of Zao

Source: The Wizard of Zao (1978), Chapter 3 (p. 33)

““I don’t understand what you mean,” I confessed in a baffled tone. Niamh gave me a long, cool, faintly amused glance.
“Don’t you? No, I can see that you do not,” she said. And with that she rolled over, her face turned from me, and fell asleep…leaving me staring at the ceiling, completely mystified, pondering the inexplicable perversities of the female mind.”

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Lin Carter livre Under the Green Star

Source: Under the Green Star (1972), Chapter 17, “A Knife in the Dark” (pp. 112-113)

“He was reluctantly forced to conclude that his sanity was unshaken.”

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Source: Time War (1974), Chapter 2, “The Lady Lis” (p. 27)

“Sheb being a theocracy was naturally ruled by the priests, and priests are naturally bigoted in favor of their own narrow creed, and intolerant of differences of opinion on theological matters. It’s really too bad that things are that way, but there you are: you have to take the world the way it is, not the way you would prefer it to be.”

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Lin Carter livre The Wizard of Zao

Source: The Wizard of Zao (1978), Chapter 4 (p. 56)

“Lux forced grief from his mind, thinking grimly of revenge.”

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Source: Time War (1974), Chapter 3, “The Silver Men” (p. 41)

“The notion that heresy is a crime of the soul, to be cured by the chastisement of the body, he pointed out in his amiable way, contained an essential error. For the soul has no real connection to the body, merely residing therein for the while. To punish the body for the sins of the soul was, therefore, about as irrational as to burn down a tenement building because it had temporarily housed a criminal.”

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Lin Carter livre The Wizard of Zao

Source: The Wizard of Zao (1978), Chapter 5 (p. 60)

“The expression on his features was one of a pained disapproval, similar to that of a gentleman of the cloth when observing the young folks behaving like young folks.”

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Lin Carter livre The Wizard of Zao

Source: The Wizard of Zao (1978), Chapter 5 (p. 69)

““And how do you feel?” the Prince asked in a smooth voice.
“Better than you look,” Thane grunted.”

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Source: Tower at the Edge of Time (1968), Chapter 9, “Slaves of Chan” (p. 85)

“If one doesn’t learn from one’s unhappy experiences,” he wisely observed, “what’s the point of all that suffering?”

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Lin Carter livre The Wizard of Zao

Source: The Wizard of Zao (1978), Chapter 4 (p. 53)

“This life, my dear bird, consists of a haphazard sequence of accidental meetings and partings, very few of which can ever be anticipated, avoided or fully understood. The element of sheer Chance, my friend, conflicting as it does with the first principles of Causation, denies any premeditated plan on the part of Destiny. Destiny, therefore, may only be defined as the sum total of one’s accumulated experiences, which are themselves accidental and purposeless. ‘Purpose,’ you deduce from this, is an interpretation imposed upon a sequence of events after the fact.”

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Lin Carter livre The Wizard of Zao

Source: The Wizard of Zao (1978), Chapter 4 (p. 50)

“You will observe, I think, that repentance is seldom whole-hearted, and generally arises from such base and ignoble motives as feeling sorry for yourself in dire circumstances.”

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Lin Carter livre Kesrick

Source: Kesrick (1982), Chapter 23, “Gaglioffo Repents” (p. 147)

“You will find, dear boy, on these chivalric adventures of yours, that manly courage and fortitude, even when bolstered by the fortunate possession of an enchanted sword such as Dastagerd, are not quite enough: one requires, as well, the use of logic, reason, deduction, and, in a word—intelligence!”

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Lin Carter livre Kesrick

Source: Kesrick (1982), Chapter 16, “The Fairy of the Fountain” (p. 105)

“However, as one or another of the philosophers has probably noted ere now, the morning was not quite over yet.”

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Lin Carter livre Kesrick

Source: Kesrick (1982), Chapter 13, “Wed and Widowed” (p. 86)

“Mere abstention from a life of evil does not constitute a life devoted to good works.”

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Lin Carter livre Kesrick

Source: Kesrick (1982), Chapter 3, “The Monster-Guarded Gate” (p. 25)

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