John Brunner cytaty

John Brunner , brytyjski pisarz science fiction.

Urodził się w Preston Crowmarsh w Oxfordshire. Służył jako oficer w lotnictwie brytyjskim od 1953 do 1955. Zmarł w wyniku wylewu w Glasgow, w trakcie odbywającego się w tym mieście 53. Światowego Konwentu SF.

Jego najbardziej znane powieści to Wszyscy na Zanzibarze z 1968, The Jagged Orbit z 1969 i Ślepe stado z 1972. Pierwsza z nich otrzymała Nagrodę Hugo za najlepszą powieść. W zapowiadającej nurt cyberpunkowy powieści Na fali szoku ukuł termin robak komputerowy .

✵ 24. Wrzesień 1934 – 25. Sierpień 1995
John Brunner: 147   Cytatów 0   Polubień

John Brunner: Cytaty po angielsku

“If you want to know what's shortly due for the guillotine look for the most obvious of all symptoms: extremism.”

John Brunner książka Stand on Zanzibar

context (12) "The Sociological Counterpart of Cheyne-Stokes Respiration" <!-- [Italics in source] -->
Stand on Zanzibar (1968)
Kontekst: If you want to know what's shortly due for the guillotine look for the most obvious of all symptoms: extremism. It is an almost infallible sign — a kind of death-rattle — when a human institution is forced by its members into stressing those and only those factors which are identificatory, at the expense of others which it necessarily shares with competing institutions because human beings belong to all of them.

“When the Everywhere couple crack a joke
It's laughed at by all right-thinking folk.
When the Everywhere couple adopt a pose
It's the with-it view as everyone knows.”

John Brunner książka Stand on Zanzibar

context (16) "Mr. & Mrs. Everywhere: Calypso (stanzas 2, 5, and 7) <!-- [Italics in source] -->
Stand on Zanzibar (1968)
Kontekst: Watching their sets in a kind of trance
were people in Mexico, people in France.
They don't chase Jones but the dreams are the same —
Mr. and Mrs. Everywhere, that's the right name!
Herr und Frau Uberall or les Partout,
A gadget on the set makes them look like you. When the Everywhere couple crack a joke
It's laughed at by all right-thinking folk.
When the Everywhere couple adopt a pose
It's the with-it view as everyone knows.
It may be a rumor or it may be true
But a gadget on the set has it said by you! "What do you think about Yatakang?"
"I think the same as the Everywhere gang."
"What do you think of Beninia then?"
"The Everywheres will tell me but I don't know when."
Whatever my country and whatever my name
A gadget on the set makes me think the same.

“Whatever my country and whatever my name
A gadget on the set makes me think the same.”

John Brunner książka Stand on Zanzibar

context (16) "Mr. & Mrs. Everywhere: Calypso (stanzas 2, 5, and 7) <!-- [Italics in source] -->
Stand on Zanzibar (1968)
Kontekst: Watching their sets in a kind of trance
were people in Mexico, people in France.
They don't chase Jones but the dreams are the same —
Mr. and Mrs. Everywhere, that's the right name!
Herr und Frau Uberall or les Partout,
A gadget on the set makes them look like you. When the Everywhere couple crack a joke
It's laughed at by all right-thinking folk.
When the Everywhere couple adopt a pose
It's the with-it view as everyone knows.
It may be a rumor or it may be true
But a gadget on the set has it said by you! "What do you think about Yatakang?"
"I think the same as the Everywhere gang."
"What do you think of Beninia then?"
"The Everywheres will tell me but I don't know when."
Whatever my country and whatever my name
A gadget on the set makes me think the same.

“First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then …? Then you serve machines.”

John Brunner książka Stand on Zanzibar

continuity (14) "The Right Man For The Job"
Stand on Zanzibar (1968)

“It's supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button.”

John Brunner książka Stand on Zanzibar

Źródło: Stand on Zanzibar

“I'm myself, not a label.”

John Brunner The Shockwave Rider

Źródło: The Shockwave Rider

“I never thought of asking anyone to do it for me. Something’s wrong with me. In a time of trouble should people not be able to ask help without feeling demeaned?”

John Brunner książka Stand on Zanzibar

tracking with closeups (31) “Unto Us a Child”
Stand on Zanzibar (1968)

“Never marry a good church-going girl, Billy! They can always find moral justifications for anything they feel like doing, no matter how it hurts other people.”

John Brunner książka The Stone That Never Came Down

Źródło: The Stone That Never Came Down (1973), Chapter 5 (p. 44)

“He was wondering what society would have been like if we’d socialised cannabis instead of dangerous drugs like alcohol and religion.”

John Brunner książka The Stone That Never Came Down

Źródło: The Stone That Never Came Down (1973), Chapter 3 (p. 26)

“If there is a hell, perhaps it consists in living up to all one’s promises.”

John Brunner książka The Tides of Time

Źródło: The Tides of Time (1984), Chapter 11 (p. 202)

“You have many years to live—do things you will be proud to remember when you're old.”

John Brunner książka Stand on Zanzibar

continuity (27) "Manscape"
Stand on Zanzibar (1968)

“At night, when he lay down to sleep, he felt that his brain was resonating with the heartbeat of the planet.”

John Brunner książka The Sheep Look Up

January “EARTHMOVER”
The Sheep Look Up (1972)

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