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Avram Davidson war ein US-amerikanischer Autor jüdischer Abstammung, der Fantasy, Science-Fiction und Kriminalgeschichten schrieb, sowie weitere Werke, die sich nicht eindeutig einem Genre zuordnen lassen. Er wurde mit dem Hugo Award, dem Locus Award und dreimal mit dem World Fantasy Award in den Kategorien Science-Fiction und Fantasy ausgezeichnet. Des Weiteren erhielt er einen World Fantasy Life Achievement Award, einen Queen’s Award und einen Edgar Allan Poe Award in der Kategorie Beste Kurzgeschichte.Davidson war von 1962 bis 1964 Redakteur der Zeitschrift The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Sein letzter Roman, The Boss in the Wall: A Treatise on the House Devil, wurde von Grania Davis fertiggestellt und war Finalist in der Endausscheidung um den Nebula Award im Jahr 1998. Wikipedia  

✵ 23. April 1923 – 8. Mai 1993
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“Follow me, men! I’m right behind you!”

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Avram Davidson buch Masters of the Maze

Quelle: Masters of the Maze (1965), Chapter 8 (p. 101)

“There was an inn…which kept no register of…a number of seamstresses and tailors who lacked time and place and perhaps inclination to weave the cloths they cut and sewed, depending instead on the activities of those who preferred not to vex the original owners with the tiresome bookkeeping inseparable from purchase.”

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Avram Davidson

Quelle: Rogue Dragon (1965), Chapter VIII (p. 81)

“Surely you’ll at least see the Temple? Respect all religions, is my motto, believe in none. Sensible principle. Still, you know, must say, after all, two thousand beautiful priestesses! All ready, willing, able—and I must say—dextrous!— to do their best to inspire male worshippers with love for their goddess, hah-hah!”

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Avram Davidson buch The Phoenix and the Mirror

Quelle: The Phoenix and the Mirror (1969), Chapter 8

“Sorcery works against Nature, magic works with it.”

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Avram Davidson buch The Phoenix and the Mirror

Quelle: The Phoenix and the Mirror (1969), Chapter 11

“Everything meant something, still, some meanings were revealed sooner than others. And that some were seemingly never revealed in no way disproved the fact.”

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Vergil in Averno (1987)

“It’s not a matter of who runs first or who runs last. It’s merely a matter of who gets caught.”

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Vergil in Averno (1987)

“Where there is no bread, there is no philosophy.”

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Avram Davidson buch The Phoenix and the Mirror

Quelle: The Phoenix and the Mirror (1969), Chapter 6

“It is not a very interesting night market, anyway. No wonderful things are sold there, though often one wonders, next day, how one could have bought them…”

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Vergil in Averno (1987)

“Surely you’ll at least see the Temple? Respect all religions, is my motto, believe in none. Sensible principle. Still, you know, must say, after all, two thousand beautiful priestesses! All ready, willing, able—and I must say—dextrous!”

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Avram Davidson buch The Phoenix and the Mirror

to do their best to inspire male worshippers with love for their goddess, hah-hah!
Quelle: The Phoenix and the Mirror (1969), Chapter 8

“In general I find little girls enchanting. What a shame they grow up to be big girls and make our lives as miserable as we allow them, and oft-times more.”

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My Boy Friend’s Name is Jello (p. 95)
Short fiction, Or All the Seas with Oysters (1962)

“When the records of our civilization are balanced, then—but perhaps not before—the real importance of dental science will be appreciated. Now it is merely valued at the moment of toothache.”

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Help! I am Dr. Morris Goldpepper (p. 59)
Short fiction, Or All the Seas with Oysters (1962)

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