영어로 읽는 SF소설 _ 에드먼드 해밀턴의 우주 파괴자들
"The Universe Wreckers"는 Edmond Hamilton이 1930년에 발표한 공상과학 소설입니다. 이 작품은 Hamilton의 초기 '우주 오페라' 스타일을 잘 보여주는 대표작 중 하나입니다. 소설은 태양계를 위협하는 거대한 외계 세력과의 대결을 다룹니다. 지구와 다른 행성들의 연합군은 우주의 균형을 깨뜨리려는 강력한 적에 맞서 필사적인 전투를 벌입니다. Hamilton은 이 작품을 통해 광대한 우주의 스케일, 진보된 과학 기술, 그리고 인류의 용기와 결단력을 극적으로 그려냅니다. 이 소설은 당시로서는 혁신적인 우주 과학의 개념들을 소개하며, 후대의 많은 SF 작가들에게 영감을 준 작품으로 평가받고 있습니다.
Reading Science Fiction Novels in English _ The universe wreckers by Edmond Hamilton
"The Universe Wreckers" is a science fiction novel published by Edmond Hamilton in 1930. This work is one of Hamilton's representative works that well exemplifies his early 'space opera' style. The novel deals with a confrontation with a gigantic alien force that threatens the solar system. The allied forces of Earth and other planets fight a desperate battle against a powerful enemy that seeks to upset the balance of the universe. Through this work, Hamilton dramatically depicts the vast scale of the universe, advanced science and technology, and the courage and determination of humanity. This novel introduces innovative concepts of space science at the time, and is considered to have inspired many later science fiction writers.
Summary
It was on the third day of May, 1994, that the world received its first news of the strange behavior of the sun. That first news was contained in a brief message sent out from the North American Observatory, in upper New York, and signed by Dr. Herbert Marlin, the observatory's head. It stated that within the last twenty-four hours a slight increase had been detected in the sun's rotatory speed, or rate of spin, and that while that increase might only be an apparent one, it was being further studied. That brief first message was broadcast, a few hours later, from the Intelligence Bureau of the World Government, in New York. It was I, Walter Hunt, who supervised the broadcasting of that message at the Intelligence Bureau, and I remember that it seemed to me of so little general interest that I ordered it sent out on the scientific-news wave rather than on the general-news wave.
