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Robert Charles Wilson

Geburtstag: 15. Dezember 1953

Robert Charles Wilson ist ein kanadischer Science-Fiction-Autor.

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„We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced.“

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—  Robert Charles Wilson, buch Spin

p. 438
Variante: Don’t be upset. The world is full of surprises. We’re all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we’re seldom formally introduced.
Quelle: Spin (2005)

„You learning anything from this?“

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—  Robert Charles Wilson, buch Axis

Tyrell asked.
Turk stood up and brushed his hands. “Yeah. I'm learning that I know even less than I thought I did.”
Chapter 3 (p. 36)
Axis (2007)

„The rooms were confining, the windows minuscule, the ceilings perilously low. She could not have spent much money on the furnishings, which were shabby, threadbare, nicked, and splintered—I had seen better furniture abandoned at Montreal curbsides.
But if her book-cases were humble, they were bowed under the weight of surprisingly many books—almost as many as there had been in the library of the Duncan and Crowley Estate back in Williams Ford. It seemed to me a treasure more estimable than any fine sofa or plush footstool, and worth all the rough economies surrounding it.“

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—  Robert Charles Wilson, buch Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America

pp. 146-147
Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009)

„Average people seldom talked about anything interesting and often hurt each other savagely.“

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—  Robert Charles Wilson, buch Axis

Chapter 8 (p. 107)
Axis (2007)

„Sometimes he wears the crown,” Magnus Stepney once remarked, “and sometimes, by the grace of God, he takes the damned thing off.“

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—  Robert Charles Wilson, buch Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America

p. 377
Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009)

„Later Julian would give me another book he had culled from among the Archival duplicates, a short novel called The Time Machine by Mr. H. G. Wells, about a marvelous but apparently imaginary cart which carried a man into the future—and it fascinated me—but the Archive itself was a Time Machine in everything but name. Here were voices preserved on browning paper like pressed flowers, whispering apostasies into the ear of a new century.“

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—  Robert Charles Wilson, buch Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America

p. 332
Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009)

„To fire a bullet into the heart or brains of one’s fellow man—even a fellow man striving to do the same to you—creates what might be called an unassimilable memory: a memory that floats on daily life the way an oil stain floats on rainwater. Stir the rain barrel, scatter the oil into countless drops, disperse it all you like, but it will not mix; and eventually the slick comes back, as loathsomely intact as it ever was.“

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—  Robert Charles Wilson, buch Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America

pp. 110-111
Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009)

„What had been released into the desert vacuum and starry oases of the galaxy was the inexorable logic of reproduction and natural selection. What followed was parasitism, predation, symbiosis, interdependency—chaos, complexity, life.“

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—  Robert Charles Wilson, buch Vortex

Chapter 32 (p. 304)
Vortex (2011)

„Julian read the Bible as if it were a work of contemporary fiction, open to criticism or even revision. Once, when I queried him about the purpose of his unusual reinterpretations, he said to me, “I want a better Bible, Adam. I want a Bible in which the Fruit of Knowledge contains the Seeds of Wisdom, and makes life more pleasurable for mankind, not worse. I want a Bible in which Isaac leaps up from the sacrificial stone and chokes the life out of Abraham, to punish him for the abject and bloody sin of Obedience. I want a Bible in which Lazarus is dead and stubborn about it, rather than standing to attention at the beck and call of every passing Messiah.”“

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—  Robert Charles Wilson, buch Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America

pp. 126-127
Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009)

„[There was] only one news channel, overseen by a bland and complexly multicultural board of advisors. It broadcast in fifteen languages and was, as a rule, interesting in none of them.“

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—  Robert Charles Wilson, buch Axis

Chapter 4 (p. 40)
Axis (2007)

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„Last week the doctor at the Tilson Rural Clinic had shown him his X-rays, the too-easy-to-interpret shadows on his liver and lungs. Guilford had declined an offer of surgery and and last-gasp radiation therapy. This horse was too old to beat.“

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—  Robert Charles Wilson, buch Darwinia

Epilogue (p. 316)
Darwinia (1998)

„The attacking piece displaces its victim. The vanquished piece leaves the plane of the board entirely. But it does not, in a higher sense, cease to exist.“

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—  Robert Charles Wilson

The Fields of Abraham (p. 37)
The Perseids and Other Stories (2000)

„“But you're a Philosopher!” Julian exclaimed at one point. “This is Philosophy, not Religion, since you rule out supernatural beings—you know that as well as I do!”
“I suppose it is Philosophy, looked at from one angle,” Stepney conceded. “But there’s no money in Philosophy, Julian. Religion is far more lucrative as a career.”“

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—  Robert Charles Wilson, buch Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America

p. 338
Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009)

„These movies belonged to the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries—that period of great, unsustainable, and hedonistic prosperity, driven by the burning of Earth’s reserves of perishable oil, which culminated in the False Tribulation, and the wars, and the plagues, and the painful dwindling of inflated populations to more reasonable numbers.“

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—  Robert Charles Wilson, buch Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America

p. 29
Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009)

„Here was the real horror, Degrandpre thought, this breaking of barriers. Civilization, after all, was the making of divisions, of walls and fences to parse the chaotic wild into ordered cells of human imagination. Wilderness invades the garden and reason is overthrown.“

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—  Robert Charles Wilson, buch Bios

Chapter 19 (p. 164)
Bios (1999)

„Evolution can’t be predicted, Julian used to tell me; it’s a scattershot business; it fires, but it doesn’t aim.“

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—  Robert Charles Wilson, buch Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America

p. 57
Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009)

„Sandra had spent her days rendering pass/fail verdicts over troubled minds, applying tests most functional adults easily passed. Is the subject oriented to time and place? Does the subject understand the consequences of his actions? But if she could give the same test to humanity as a whole, Sandra thought, the outcome would be very much in doubt. Subject is confused and often self-destructive. Subject pursues short-term gratification at the expense of his own well-being.“

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—  Robert Charles Wilson, buch Vortex

Chapter 1 (p. 16)
Vortex (2011)

„Guilford thought he knew what science was. It was nothing more than curiosity…tempered by humility, disciplined with patience.
Science meant looking—a special kind of looking. Looking especially hard at the things you didn’t understand. Looking at the stars, say, and not fearing them, not worshiping them, just asking questions, finding the question that would unlock the door to the next question and the question beyond that.“

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—  Robert Charles Wilson, buch Darwinia

Prologue (pp. 10-11)
Darwinia (1998)

„We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father’s unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person, he once said, by the way they look at the stars.“

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—  Robert Charles Wilson, buch Axis

Chapter 19 (p. 235)
Axis (2007)

„The afternoon is too tempting to be denied. It isn’t Paradise here, or even close, but the mimosa is in bloom and the air from the sea is cool and pleasant. On days like this I think of poor old Magnus Stepney’s evolving Green God, harking us all up to Eden. The Green God’s voice is faint enough that few of us hear it clearly, and that’s our tragedy, I suppose, as a species—but I hear it very distinctly just now. It asks me to step into the sunshine, and I mean to do its bidding.“

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—  Robert Charles Wilson, buch Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America

p. 413 (closing words)
Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009)

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