Frasi di Charles Sheffield
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Charles Sheffield è stato un matematico, fisico e scrittore di fantascienza britannico.

Ha vinto il Premio John Wood Campbell Memorial con il romanzo Brother to Dragons e i premi Hugo e Nebula con il racconto Georgia on My Mind .

È stato presidente dalla Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America e dell'American Astronautical Society. Wikipedia  

✵ 25. Giugno 1935 – 2. Novembre 2002
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“And now I think about it, I never really wanted to live forever. I just want to live well.”

Charles Sheffield libro Between the Strokes of Night

Origine: Between the Strokes of Night (1985), Chapter 29 (p. 342)

“A long time ago humans talked of terraforming Mars and Venus, but we never did it. Just too busy blowing ourselves up, I guess, ever to get round to it.”

Charles Sheffield libro Between the Strokes of Night

Origine: Between the Strokes of Night (1985), Chapter 28 (p. 322)

“It sounds reasonable to me. Reasonable, but not true. Big difference.”

Charles Sheffield libro Proteus In The Underworld

Origine: Behrooz Wolf (aka The Proteus Trilogy), Proteus In The Underworld (1995), Chapter 19 (p. 251)

“Sometimes wealth and power merely created the desire for more of the same.”

Charles Sheffield libro Proteus In The Underworld

Origine: Behrooz Wolf (aka The Proteus Trilogy), Proteus In The Underworld (1995), Chapter 16 (p. 217)

“When you got right down to it, every important decision in life was made with inadequate information.”

Charles Sheffield libro Proteus In The Underworld

Origine: Behrooz Wolf (aka The Proteus Trilogy), Proteus In The Underworld (1995), Chapter 14 (p. 190)

“When in doubt, follow the money trail. People could lie, motives could be disguised, even acts could be misunderstood. Money was as constant as human nature.”

Charles Sheffield libro Proteus In The Underworld

Origine: Behrooz Wolf (aka The Proteus Trilogy), Proteus In The Underworld (1995), Chapter 11 (pp. 148-149)

“To a political mind, everything is politics.”

Charles Sheffield libro Proteus In The Underworld

Origine: Behrooz Wolf (aka The Proteus Trilogy), Proteus In The Underworld (1995), Chapter 3 (p. 23)

“You can learn more about a person by watching them eat one meal than by listening to them speak for a whole day.”

Charles Sheffield libro Proteus In The Underworld

Origine: Behrooz Wolf (aka The Proteus Trilogy), Proteus In The Underworld (1995), Chapter 2 (p. 11)

“War was senseless. And yet war came creeping steadily closer.”

Origine: Behrooz Wolf (aka The Proteus Trilogy), Proteus Unbound (1989), Chapter 14 (p. 330)

“It’s the usual sensation mongering; the news services will say anything for an effect.”

Origine: Behrooz Wolf (aka The Proteus Trilogy), Sight of Proteus (1978), Chapter 9 (p. 73)

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