Frederik Pohl cytaty

Frederik George Pohl – amerykański pisarz i redaktor science fiction oraz krytyk fantastyki.

W latach 1959–1969 był redaktorem magazynów „Galaxy” i „If”. Był wielokrotnym laureatem nagród Hugo i Nebula, a także Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award. Został opisany przez Kingsleya Amisa jako nieustająco jeden z najzdolniejszych pisarzy SF. W latach 1974–1976 był prezesem Amerykańskiego Stowarzyszenia Autorów Science Fiction

Do jego najbardziej znanych powieści należą Człowiek Plus i Gateway. Brama do gwiazd , a także, napisana wspólnie z Cyrilem Kornbluthem Handlarze kosmosem . Wikipedia  

✵ 26. Listopad 1919 – 2. Wrzesień 2013
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Frederik Pohl: Cytaty po angielsku

“There is a Carot's law to pain. It is measured not by absolutes, but the difference between source and ambience, and my ambience had been too safe and too pleasurable for too long to equip me for this.”

Frederik Pohl książka Beyond the Blue Event Horizon

Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (1980)
Kontekst: When my mother died and left me it hurt, but I was poor and confused and used to hurting. When the love of my life, or at any rate the woman who seemed to come to be the love of my life after she was safely gone, also left me — without quite dying, because she was stuck in some awful astrophysical anomaly and far out of reach forever — that also hurt. But I was hurting all over anyway then. I wasn't used to happiness, hadn't formed the habit of it. There is a Carot's law to pain. It is measured not by absolutes, but the difference between source and ambience, and my ambience had been too safe and too pleasurable for too long to equip me for this. I was in shock.

“That’s power, Mitch, absolute power. And you know the old saying. Power ennobles. Absolute power ennobles absolutely.”

Frederik Pohl książka The Space Merchants

Źródło: The Space Merchants (1953), Chapter 4 (p. 44)

“Don Kayman was too good a scientist to confuse his hopes with observations. He would report what he found. But he knew what he wanted to find.”

Frederik Pohl książka Man Plus

Źródło: Man Plus (1976), Chapter 14, “Missionary to Mars” (p. 190)

“Even money, thought Roger on the way back to his own office, is not a bad bet. Of course, it depends on the stakes.”

Frederik Pohl książka Man Plus

Źródło: Man Plus (1976), Chapter 6, “Mortal in Mortal Fear” (p. 74)

“Specialization is the goal of civilization.”

My Lady Green Sleeves (p. 88)
Platinum Pohl (2005)

“Anybody who sets out to turn the world upside down has no right to complain if he gets caught in its gears.”

Frederik Pohl książka The Space Merchants

Źródło: The Space Merchants (1953), Chapter 8 (p. 105)

“There is no greater dark than the dark between the stars.”

Frederik Pohl książka Heechee Rendezvous

Heechee Rendezvous (1984)

“All of them had been so tested and retested that they had acquired considerable skill in answering test questions the way the examiners wanted them answered.”

Frederik Pohl książka Man Plus

Źródło: Man Plus (1976), Chapter 4, “Group of Probable Pallbearers” (p. 41)