〈영어로 읽는 공상과학 소설 _ 스티븐 말로의 황금 원숭이〉
Paul W. Fairman과 Stephen Marlowe가 쓴 "Quest of the Golden Ape"는 모험과 펄프픽션의 요소를 혼합한 SF 소설로 1057년에 출간 되었다.
이야기는 "타스(Tarth)"라고 알려진 이상하고 선사 시대의 세계로 이동한 남자 존 프라이드(John Pride)의 모험이다.
이 세계에는 유인원 같은 지능을 지닌 생물과 기타 환상적인 존재들이 살고 있다. 존은 집으로 돌아갈 수 있는 열쇠를 쥐고 있다는 소문이 있는 강력한 유물인 전설적인 "황금 원숭이"를 찾기 위한 탐험을 시작한다. 그 과정에서 그는 적대적인 생명체, 라이벌 모험가, 위험한 타스 환경 등 다양한 도전과 위험에 직면하게 된다.
〈Science novel to read in English_ Quest of the Golden Ape by Paul W. Fairman and Stephen Marlowe 〉
"Quest of the Golden Ape", written by Paul W. Fairman and Stephen Marlowe, is a science fiction novel that mixes elements of adventure and pulp fiction and was published in 1057.
The story is the adventures of John Pride, a man who is transported to a strange, prehistoric world known as "Tarth".
This world is inhabited by creatures with ape-like intelligence and other fantastic beings. John embarks on a quest to find the legendary "Golden Monkey", a powerful artifact rumored to hold the key to returning home. Along the way, he faces various challenges and dangers, including hostile creatures, rival adventurers, and the dangerous environment of Tarth.
Summary
How could this man awaken with no past?no childhood?no recollection except of a vague world of terror from which his mother cried out for vengeance and the slaughter of his own people stood as a monument of infamy?
In a secluded section of a certain eastern state which must remain nameless, one may leave the main highway and travel up a winding road around tortuous bends and under huge scowling trees, into wooded country.
Upon a certain night?the date of which must remain vague?there came a man who faced and was not turned back by a series of psychological barriers along this road which made it more impregnable than a steel wall. These barriers, which had kept out a hundred years of curiosity-seekers until that certain night, were forged by the scientific magic of a genius on a planet far beyond the sun....
