Amerikali bilim kurgu ve kisa oyku yazari Philip Kindred Dick’in dogum yildonumu (16 Aralik 1928)
“Solup giden bir irk icin ne yapilabilirdi? Mars'in yerli halki icin zaman, 60'larda ilk Sovyet gemisinin televizyon kameralariyla birlikte gokyuzunde belirmesinden cok daha once tukenmisti.Hicbir insan grubu onlari yok etmek icin komplo kurmamisti, cunku buna gerek kalmamisti. Ilk baslarda muazzam bir merak kaynagi olmuslardi. Cunku onlar, ugruna milyarlar harcanan Mars'a ulasma projelerinin sonucunda elde edilen kesiflerdi. Onlar dünyadisi bir irkti.”Mars’ta Zaman Kaymasi
“But what could be done for a waning race? Time had run out for the natives of Mars long before the first Soviet ship had appeared in the sky with its television cameras grinding away, back in the '60s. No human group had conspired to exterminate them; it had not been necessary. And anyhow they had been a vast curiosity, at first. Here was a discovery worth the billions spent in the task of reaching Mars. Here was an extraterrestrial race.”
“Yine de, Amerikan yerlilerinden kurtulmak iki yuz sene surmustu ve Almanya Afrika'da ayni isi on bes senede basarmisti. Bu yuzden tum elestiriler yersizdi. Aslinda bunu gecenlerde, o diger dukkan sahiplerinden bazilariyla yemek yerken tartismisti. Onlar acikca mucize bekliyorlardi, sanki Naziler dunyayi buyu yoluyla yeniden bicimlendirebilirlermis gibi. Hayir, sonuc alinmasini saglayan sey bilim, teknoloji ve o meshur SIKI calisma yetenegiydi; Almanlar kendilerini yaptiklari ise adamaktan asla vazgecmiyorlardi. Ve bir isi yaptiklarinda, onu adam gibi yapiyorlardi.” Yuksek Satodaki Adam
“Still, it had taken two hundred years to dispose of the American aborigines, and Germany had almost done it in Africa in fifteen years. So no criticism was legitimately in order. Childan had, in fact, argued it out recently while having lunch with certain of those other merchants. They expected miracles, evidently, as if the Nazis could remold the world by magic. No, it was science and technology and that fabulous talent for hard work; the Germans never stopped applying themselves. And when they did a task, they did it right.”
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