„Non è detto il vino vecchio sia sempre il migliore, però nemmeno è sempre aceto.“
— Gardner Dozois
dalla prefazione di Astronavi e avventure, traduzione di Vittorio Curtoni, Urania 1402, Mondadori, 2000, p. 12
Frasi di Gardner Dozois
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Gardner Dozois
Data di nascita:23. Luglio 1947
Gardner Raymond Dozois , scrittore statunitense.
Frasi Gardner Dozois
„He was annoyed at his anger. He had failed to contain himself.“
— Gardner Dozois
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection
„The girl may want more honesty. However, most of us want a comfortable life.“
— Gardner Dozois
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection
„That’s why children can surprise you. They never fill out the proper forms.“
— Gardner Dozois
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection
„Madame Curie said, ‘We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.“
— Gardner Dozois
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection
„Civilization had long maintained the appearance of such communal closeness, in small units people could manage. Societies had evolved that could stack such social nuggets into vaster larger arrays. A squad of ten worked well together, and united with ten other squads could do far more. Those ten who commanded squads could then meet in a room and make up a squad themselves, and so on up a pyramid that could sum the labours of billions. All“
— Gardner Dozois
Beyond Singularity
„A love that is not sated Calls from a poisoned bed; Where monsters half-created writhe, unliving and undead. None knows for what they’re fated; None knows on what they’ve fed. My“
— Gardner Dozois
The Year's Best Science Fiction: First Annual Collection
„It says somethin’ about my wife being used for in-ves-ti-gational purposes,” he said, spelling it out slowly. “What’s that mean?” “It means that since we’re dealing with a new product, I’m required to obtain the consent of Mrs. Hernandez before we can start,” he said. “Don’t worry. What it means is that Mrs. Hernandez will have very good care while she’s in the program, including free monthly checkups.” Doubt clouded Hernandez’s eyes, but he pursed his lips and began reading again. Winkelstein nodded thoughtfully to himself. He had long ago learned never to use the word experimental around a patient. For some reason they often took fright.“
— Gardner Dozois
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection
„had to be maintained. It took only minutes to carve a fresh“
— Gardner Dozois
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection
„Naturals felt best in groups of a hundred or so, and even better if only a few dozen were involved. Hunting parties had been about that size, even for the big, long-extinct game. Many important institutions were of the same rough scale—the ancient village, governing councils of nations, commanding élites of vast armies, teams playing games, orchestras, family fests. All human enterprises that worked were of that size, and nearly everything that failed was not. So“
— Gardner Dozois
Beyond Singularity
„beyond that enormous vehicle, a hanging indigo shape like the manifestation of a tesseract, a rotating impossible object in five or six or thirteen dimensions: the throat of the vinculum created two million years ago by the beings in Andromeda.“
— Gardner Dozois
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection
„At the end of all rationality there is simply the need to decide and the faith to live through, to endure.“
— Gardner Dozois
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection
„I’ve heard it estimated that a core buying audience of about 20,000+ readers is supporting 80% of working SF writers today“
— Gardner Dozois
The Year's Best Science Fiction: First Annual Collection
