영어로 읽는 고전 _ 로버트 W. 크렙스의 아마겟돈 1970
"로버트 W. 크렙스의 '아마겟돈, 1970'은 1950년대 초에 쓰인 공상과학 소설입니다. 이야기는 프로젝트 스타에 배치된 과학자 앨런 랙햄 박사를 중심으로 전개되며, 그는 첨단 기술과 잠재적인 외계 위협을 배경으로 음모의 중심에 서게 됩니다. 이야기가 진행되면서, 랙햄은 암살 시도와 자신의 임무의 불분명한 성격에 맞서게 되는데, 이는 돌연변이와 외계 세력을 포함한 더 깊은 층위의 음모를 암시합니다. 이야기의 시작은 앨런이 용접공이 관련된 놀랍고도 끔찍한 직장 사고를 목격한 직후 암살 시도에서 살아남으면서 긴장감 있는 분위기를 조성합니다. 그의 동료 브레이브와 함께, 그들은 프로젝트 스타에서 모든 것이 보이는 대로가 아니라는 의심을 품게 하는 불안한 일련의 사건들을 발견합니다. 앨런의 생활에서 비행 원반에 관한 그의 작업과 연결된 이상한 일들이 발생하면서 긴장감은 고조되고, 이는 그들의 목적의 본질과 그들 사이에 있을 수 있는 돌연변이를 포함한 더 큰 위협에 대한 계시로 이어집니다. 개인적이고 실존적인 위험의 혼합은 이야기를 앞으로 밀어붙이며, 앨런이 자신의 세계와 관계의 방대한 복잡성을 헤쳐나가면서 진실을 밝혀내도록 도전합니다."
Classics Read in English _ Armageddon, 1970 by Robert W. Krepps
"Armageddon, 1970" by Robert W. Krepps is a science fiction novel from the early 1950s that feels remarkably prescient today. The story centers on Dr. Alan Rackham, a scientist at Project Star who becomes entangled in a web of conspiracy amid advanced technology and potential alien threats.
The narrative kicks off with intense urgency as Alan narrowly escapes an assassination attempt after witnessing a horrific industrial accident involving a welder. Together with his ally Brave, he begins to unravel disturbing patterns suggesting that Project Star harbors dark secrets beneath its scientific facade.
As strange incidents connected to his work on flying disks multiply, Alan's investigation reveals shocking truths about their purpose and hints at a larger existential threat?possibly including hidden mutants among the human population. The mounting tension forces Alan to question everything while navigating complex relationships and uncovering layers of deception.
The novel brilliantly blends personal jeopardy with larger existential questions, driving Alan's desperate quest for truth amid increasingly dangerous circumstances. Krepps creates a world where technological advancement and human nature collide in ways that feel eerily relevant to contemporary anxieties about scientific ethics and unseen threats.
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They tried to kill Alan Rackham about an hour after he had seen the accident. They bungled the job. They shot at him from ambush?with an ordinary automatic pistol?as he was walking up to his house; and Brave, who had a sixth sense for danger which never failed him, knocked Alan over at the very instant of the shot and sprawled across him, a great solid shield holding him down and protecting him despite his angry wrigglings. Brave's grenade pistol was in his hand before the two of them hit ground, and he sent four quick shots at the bushes, spaced so that the tiny hot fragments tore hell out of thirty yards of shrubbery. Nobody yelled or groaned. Brave waited a full minute, and then he rose cautiously, so that Alan could sit up and brush himself off and swear as he spat out dirt. They went into the house and Alan reported the assassination attempt to his immediate superior, Dr. Getty. After that they didn't try again to kill Alan for a long time.
The accident had been uncanny. It happened in the room where the shells of the silver-colored disks were fitted together and welded, before they were sent to the gargantuan baths that half-melted them again to rechill them into solid masses of metal which nothing short of a direct hit by a blockbuster would crack.
