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Peter Nilson

Born

in Näsby, Jönköpings län, Sweden

October 17, 1937

Died

March 08, 1998

Genre

Science, Essayistics, Science Fiction

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(17 October 1937 – 8 March 1998) was a Swedish astronomer and novelist. Active at Uppsala University, he compiled a catalogue of galaxies. He was appreciated for a number of essay books (primarily about science) and for a number of science fiction novels like Rymdväktaren, or "The Space Guardian" and Nyaga.

He was born in a Smålandian village and under the early teens a farmer, but science, with its celebrities such as Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein made such an impression on him, as to motivate him to accomplish college studies by letter correspondence. In the early 1960s he began his studies in Uppsala University, initially in mathematics, and thereafter theoretical physics, aesthetics, history of ideas and astronomy.

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	Rymdväktaren 4.08 avg rating — 153 ratings — published 1997 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nyaga 4.05 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stjärnvägar: En bok om kosmos really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 97 ratings — published 1991 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rymdljus: En bok om katastrofer och underverk 3.95 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Arken: Berättelsen om en färd till tidens ände 4.25 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 1982 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Solvindar 3.94 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Il Messia con la gamba di legno by Peter Nilson, Maria Cristina Lombardi (Translator) 3.98 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1990 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hem till jorden 4.06 avg rating — 36 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Den gamla byn: en berättelse om mark och människor 3.67 avg rating — 21 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Projekt Nyaga: Rymdväktaren & Nyaga 3.48 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1999	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“In the library of the observatory in Ondrejov, above Prague, I once found a catalogue of stars that astounded me. It had hundreds of pages with tables of stars that had been observed and confirmed to exist. Towards the end there was a table of stars thought to have been observed but confirmed to not exist. But to my astonishment, at the back of the volume I found a list of stars which had never been observed and did not exist.

Perhaps the most amazing thing about the universe is that we could create an infinite catalogue of things, worlds and beings that no one has seen and which do not exist. Each story in the realm of fiction is a small part of that catalogue.”
― Peter Nilson, Stjärnvägar: En bok om kosmos

tags: astronomy, existence, fiction

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“Men ibland fortsätter jag drömma, och paradoxen fördjupar sig och mångfaldigar sig i sina motsägelser, som om jag skulle stå i ett rum där speglar återkastar varandras spegelbilder. Jag vet att jag existerar i en dröm hos en människa som är slagen av Gud ända därhän att hon inte kan ha några drömmar. Jag finns ingen annanstans än där, i en dröm som tillvaron förnekar, och där är min existens orimlig. Jag står framför spegeln och upptäcker att jag själv är spegelbilden.”
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“Jag skall finnas så länge världen står, för jag har genomskådat Guds mening med skapelsen.”
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