Frases de Charles Sheffield
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Charles Sheffield , nascido na Grã-Bretanha, foi um matemático, físico e escritor de ficção científica inglês. Foi presidente da Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America e da American Astronomical Society.

Seu livro The Web Between the Worlds, cujo assunto é a construção de um elevador espacial, foi publicado simultaneamente com o romance de Arthur C. Clarke que tratava do mesmo assunto The Fountains of Paradise, uma coincidência que divertiu a ambos.

Foi cientista-chefe da Earth Satellite Corporation, uma empresa de análise de dados de satélite. Esta experiência resultou em vários escritos acadêmicos e dois livros populares de não-ficção, Earthwatch e Man on Earth, ambos coleções de imagens de satélites, coloridas artificialmente e contrastadas, da Terra vista do espaço.

Venceu os prêmios Nebula e Hugo por sua noveleta "Georgia on My Mind" e o John W. Campbell Memorial Award de 1992 por seu romance "Brother to Dragons".

Escrevia regularmente uma coluna para o website da editora Baen Books; seu último texto dizia sobre a descoberta do tumor cerebral que o levou à morte.

Era casado com a escritora Nancy Kress. Wikipedia

✵ 25. Junho 1935 – 2. Novembro 2002

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Charles Sheffield: Frases em inglês

“And now I think about it, I never really wanted to live forever. I just want to live well.”

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Charles Sheffield livro Between the Strokes of Night

Fonte: 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.”

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Charles Sheffield livro Between the Strokes of Night

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

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

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Charles Sheffield livro Proteus In The Underworld

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

“See, everybody looks at the world from his own point of view. I call it the ground state of the resting mind. And your brain does the same thing, left alone it returns to and thinks about what it’s really interested in.”

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Charles Sheffield livro Proteus In The Underworld

Fonte: Behrooz Wolf (aka The Proteus Trilogy), Proteus In The Underworld (1995), Chapter 17 (p. 227)

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

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Charles Sheffield livro Proteus In The Underworld

Fonte: 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.”

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Charles Sheffield livro Proteus In The Underworld

Fonte: 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.”

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Charles Sheffield livro Proteus In The Underworld

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

“To a political mind, everything is politics.”

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Charles Sheffield livro Proteus In The Underworld

Fonte: 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.”

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Charles Sheffield livro Proteus In The Underworld

Fonte: 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.”

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Charles Sheffield

Fonte: 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.”

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Charles Sheffield

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