Dmitri Bilenkin

science fiction writer (1933-1987)

Person · Open Library

Works: 2

Top works

SF international 3
Die unsichtbare Waffe

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Country: IL

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

The missing memristor found
· 2008 · cited 10,502x
Prospects of Colloidal Nanocrystals for Electronic and Optoelectronic Applications
· 2009 · cited 3,930x
The COG database: an updated version includes eukaryotes
· 2003 · cited 3,737x
Plasmonics beyond the diffraction limit
· 2010 · cited 3,544x
Memristive devices for computing
· 2012 · cited 3,520x

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Quotes

““In traveling to the past, you can either appear in a predetermined point in space or in a predetermined point in time. In principle, it is impossible to do both simultaneously.” (Fundamental Temporalics, A.D. 2023)”
“Here, now, in the deep Middle Ages, all this served as a safety valve. People experienced the illusion of being at one with themselves, with others, with that mystical being that was there in the church, watching over them and preserving them, chiding and blessing, enlightening and repressing, uplifting and reconciling. A completely different, anxiety-ridden emotional state, and an understandable, but repellent, spiritual world.”
“When the mind tries to guess the trajectory of a future moral act and concentrates too strenuously on contradictory concepts, the concepts themselves become unclear, because every concept is as deep-rooted and murky in its beginnings as the reality of life that gave rise to it. And the mind falters, determination slips away, and everything seems confused and wrong. That’s how thinking can sometimes destroy determination.”
“Just try telling a teenager that he’s a conformist. Ha! It’s safer to tweak a tiger’s whiskers. Yet who’s most influenced by fads and fashions? Who is the easiest to turn into a raging mob? The teenager.”
“We all love mysteries in books and hate them in life. I’m no exception. After all, the reason we love mysteries in books is that the secret is revealed on the last page.”
“Life is full of situations cut short, unfinished observations, everything that doesn’t fit in the parameters of a story that would make sense to strangers. We keep them to ourselves and we carry them away with us.”