영어로 읽는 SF소설 _ 알런 킴 랭의 키실 코토를 향해
“The railhead at Kysyl Khoto"는 Allen Kim Lang이 1957년에 쓴 공상과학 단편 소설입니다.
알런 킴 랭(by Allen Kim Lang)은 1950년 11월 Planet Stories에 "Machine of Klamugra"로 SF를 출판하기 시작한 미국의 작가로, 그 후 10년 동안 액션 스토리를 상당수 출판했습니다. 20개의 작품이 기록되어 있는데, 여기에는 만화 소설 "신데렐라 스토리"(1961년 5월 If)와 "눈먼 사람의 등불"(1962년 12월 Analog)이 있습니다.
Reading Science Fiction Novels in English _ The railhead at Kysyl Khoto by Allen Kim Lang
“The Railhead at Kysyl Khoto” is a science fiction short story written in 1957 by Allen Kim Lang.
Alan Kim Lang (by Allen Kim Lang) was an American writer who began publishing science fiction with “Machine of Klamugra” in Planet Stories in November 1950, and published a number of action stories over the next ten years. He has 20 works recorded, including the graphic novels “A Cinderella Story” (If, May 1961) and “The Blind Man’s Lantern” (Analog, December 1962).
Summary
"Kysyl. Railhead. K. E. Ziolkovsky.
5000 meters/second. Luna." That was the entire message. But its meaning made White Sands look pretty trivial, and turned a rocket engineer into a salesman!
I've been told that during the season of the simoom winds in Morocco, Arab judges let confessed murderers off with a fine. The weather justifies homicide. Washington judges should be as lenient in the summer, I thought, scooting on the contours of my chair to keep the seat of my pants from sweating into the varnish. Ten bucks and costs seemed a fair price to pay society if I killed this Doctor Francis von Munger.
My cigarettes had become limp and brown with the sweat through my shirt. I eased one of these unappetizing noodles out of the pack and lit it. It tasted like burning, damp wool stockings.
