〈영어로 읽는 공상과학 소설 _ 잭 샤키의 빅 베이비〉
1962년 Galaxy Magazine에 소개된 잭 샤키의 공상과학 소설이다. 문제의 아기는 키가 700피트나 되는 거대한 아기다!
잭 샤키는 미국 작가로서 80편 이상의 희곡을 집필했다. 그는 다양한 필명으로도 활동했다.
샤키는 일리노이주 시카고에서 태어났다. 1960년대에 그는 플레이보이에서 일했으며 올스테이트 보험 회사의 회사 잡지 편집장이기도 했다.
〈Science novel read in English_ Big Baby by Jack Sharkey 〉
This is a science fiction novel by Jack Sharkey introduced in Galaxy Magazine in 1962. The baby in question is a massive 700 feet tall!
Jack Sharkey is an American writer who has written more than 80 plays. He also worked under various pen names.
Sharkey was born in Chicago, Illinois. In the 1960s, he worked for Playboy and was editor-in-chief of Allstate Insurance Company's corporate magazine.
Summary
The baby was lonesome, helpless and afraid. It wasn't his fault he was seven hundred feet tall!
The dancing green blip traced an erratic course upon the glossy gray screen, the jagged-line pattern repeated over and over, its outline going from dim to sharply emerald brightness to dim again before fading. The technician cut the switch. There was a sustained whir of reorganization within the machine as the data-cards were refiled.
"Care to see it again, sir?" asked the technician. His fingers hovered over the dials, his body in an attitude of impending motion.
