〈영어로 읽는 고전 공상과학 소설 _ 칼 야코비의 테폰디콘〉
칼 자코비는 20세기 미국의 작가이며, 주로 공상과학 소설과 호러 소설로 알려져 있다. 그의 작품 중 하나인 'Tepondicon'는 1946년에 출판된 작품으로 미국 추리 작가 H. P. 러브크래프트(H. P. Lovecraft)와 친구이자, 편지를 주고받은 작가인 로버트 E. 하워드(Robert E. Howard)와의 소설 작품들과 함께 'Weird Tales'와 같은 잡지에 발표되었다.
〈A classic science fiction novel read in English_ Tepondicon by Carl Jacobi〉
Carl Jacoby was a 20th-century American writer, known primarily for his science fiction and horror novels. One of his works, 'Tepondicon', published in 1946, is a work of fiction with Robert E. Howard, a writer who was a friend and corresponded with American mystery writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was published in magazines such as 'Weird Tales'.
Summary
He was not the savior-type. He certainly did not crave martyrdom. Yet there was treasure beyond price in these darkened plague-cities of Ganymede, if a man could but measure up to it.
By seven o'clock, Earth-time, I could distinctly see the first plague city of Profaldo. In the grey light it lay there before me, a vague opalescent aura radiating from its spires and minarets. The three roads that crossed the flat converged on the city to meet at a single narrow runway.
