Robert J. Sawyer Quotes
Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim.
Sawyer, Robert J. Golden Fleece. Warner Books, 1990.
He was the first person to make the distinction in English law between murder and accidental homicide. Earlier they both carried the same death penalty. Bracton, with murder and with theft, wrote of the concept of “mens rea”—criminal mind or intent which is a fundamental principle of modern law. Aristotle, in his Nichomachean Ethics, made similar distinctions of responsibility depending on intent, but Bracton codified it in English law.
Many have speculated that this personal grudge may have been one of the motivating factors leading Bush to his disastrous Iraq War decisions.
Mandelstam was later sent to a Soviet gulag for writing a poem denouncing Stalin. He died there.
Description of one of his experiences in the Spanish American War.
Robert James Sawyer CM OOnt is a Canadian science fiction writer. He has had 23 novels published, and his short fiction has appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Amazing Stories, On Spec, Nature, and many anthologies. Sawyer has won the Nebula Award (1995), the Hugo Award (2003), and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award (2006).
