영어로 읽는 공상과학 소설 _ 가드너 F. 폭스의 n번째 남자
"Man nth"는 Gardner F. Fox가 1968년에 발표한 SF 소설입니다. 이 작품은 수학적 개념과 차원 여행이라는 독특한 소재를 결합한 모험 이야기를 담고 있습니다.
이야기는 주인공이 n차원으로의 여행을 가능하게 하는 수학적 공식을 발견하면서 시작됩니다. 그는 이 발견을 통해 다양한 차원을 탐험하게 되며, 각 차원에서 마주치는 독특한 존재들과 현상들을 경험하게 됩니다.
Fox는 복잡한 수학적 개념을 일반 독자들도 이해할 수 있는 방식으로 풀어내며, 그의 특기인 모험 요소와 결합하여 흥미진진한 서사를 전개합니다. 특히 다중 차원이라는 SF적 소재를 통해 인간의 한계와 가능성에 대한 철학적 질문을 던집니다.
이 책은 1960년대 후반 SF 장르의 실험적 성향을 잘 보여주는 작품으로 평가받고 있습니다.
Reading Science Fiction in English _ Man nth by Gardner F. Fox
"Man nth" is a science fiction novel published by Gardner F. Fox in 1968. It is an adventure story that combines mathematical concepts with the unique material of dimensional travel.
The story begins when the protagonist discovers a mathematical formula that enables travel to the nth dimension. Through this discovery, he explores various dimensions and experiences unique beings and phenomena encountered in each dimension.
Fox unravels complex mathematical concepts in a way that even general readers can understand, and combines them with his specialty, adventure elements, to develop an exciting narrative. In particular, he raises philosophical questions about the limitations and possibilities of humans through the science fiction material of multiple dimensions.
This book is considered to be a work that well demonstrates the experimental nature of the science fiction genre in the late 1960s.
Summary
From strange and distant worlds the master beings came to Neeoorna, bringing with them the science of the Universe. One by one they fought the alien fire?and died. And now Jonathan Morgan, the Earthling, whose science was primitive compared to the others, found himself facing the black flames.
He stood alone in the laboratory, frightened, staring at the tiny motes of dust that swirled lightly in the breeze. That dust had been a block of solid lead a moment ago; before he had touched it, and concentrated.
Jonathan Morgan licked his lips with a dry tongue. Things like this shouldn't happen to the assistant to the Chief of the National Foundation for Physics Research. It went against every law he had studied so absorbedly for the past twelve years, ever since he had decided in high school to make physics his life work.
