Source: The Enemy Stars (1959), Chapter 18 (p. 148)
Quotes from book
The Enemy Stars
The Enemy Stars, is a science fiction novel by American writer Poul Anderson, published in 1959 by J.B Lippincott in the US and by Longmans in Canada. Originally published in Astounding Science Fiction under the title We Have Fed Our Sea__, it was a nominee for the 1959 Hugo Award for Best Novel. The original title refers to a line in a poem by Rudyard Kipling.
Source: The Enemy Stars (1959), Chapter 2 (p. 8)
Source: The Enemy Stars (1959), Chapter 18 (p. 150)
Source: The Enemy Stars (1959), Chapter 11 (p. 92)
“Pioneering is an unlimited chance to become the biggest frog, provided the puddle is small enough.”
Source: The Enemy Stars (1959), Chapter 5 (p. 31)
“People usually take for granted that the way things are is the way things must be.”
Foreward (p. v)
The Enemy Stars (1959)
“Life was too short for anything but amusement at the human race.”
Source: The Enemy Stars (1959), Chapter 5 (p. 38)
Source: The Enemy Stars (1959), Chapter 8 (pp. 62-63)
“I do not think the coerced mind ever really learns an art.”
Source: The Enemy Stars (1959), Chapter 3 (p. 20)
“You can have more adventure in an hour’s walk through a forest than in a year on a spaceship.”
Source: The Enemy Stars (1959), Chapter 12 (p. 103)
“Her rank was higher than his, so high that no one in her family worked productively.”
Source: The Enemy Stars (1959), Chapter 1 (p. 4)
Source: The Enemy Stars (1959), Chapter 5 (p. 36)
Source: The Enemy Stars (1959), Chapter 15 (p. 129)
Source: The Enemy Stars (1959), Chapter 11 (p. 87)
“Your son was in your own tradition.”
“Better, I hope,” said the old man. “There would be little sense to existence, did boys have no chance to be more than their fathers.”
Source: The Enemy Stars (1959), Chapter 18 (p. 150)
