영어로 읽는 공상과학 소설 _ 에블린 E. 스미스의 유용한 당신
이 책은1955년 Galaxy Science Fiction February에 소개된 에블린 E. 스미스의 공상과학 소설이다
20세기 중반 활동한 미국 작가 Smith의 작품으로, 당시 SF 문학의 특징을 반영하고 있을 것으로 추정된다. 이 작품은 아마도 사회 비평이나 풍자적 요소를 포함하고 있을 것이며, 미래 사회나 기술의 영향을 유머와 아이러니를 통해 탐구했을 가능성이 높다. "Helpfully Yours"는 1950년대의 사회적 관심사와 기술 발전에 대한 작가의 견해를 담고 있는 SF 문학의 한 예시로 볼 수 있다.
Reading Science Fiction in English _ Helpfully Yours by Evelyn E. Smith
This book is a science fiction novel by Evelyn E. Smith that was introduced in Galaxy Science Fiction February 1955.
It is a work by Smith, an American writer active in the mid-20th century, and is presumed to reflect the characteristics of science fiction literature at the time. This work probably contains elements of social criticism or satire, and it is likely that it explores the influence of future society or technology through humor and irony. "Helpfully Yours" can be seen as an example of science fiction literature that contains the author's views on social concerns and technological developments in the 1950s.
Summary
"Come down to Earth?and stay there!" is a humiliating order for somebody with wings!
"Come down to Earth?and stay there!" is a humiliating order for somebody with wings!
Tarb Morfatch had read all the information on Terrestrial customs that was available in the Times morgue before she'd left Fizbus. And all through the journey she'd studied herBrief Introduction to Terrestrial Manners and Mores avidly. Perhaps it was a bit overinspirational in spots, but it had facts in it, too.
So she knew that, since the natives were non-alate, she was not to take wing on Earth. She had, however, forgotten to correlate the knowledge of their winglessness with her own vertical habits.
