<영어로 읽는 SF 소설 _ 레이 브래드버리의 시간을 잃은 사람들>
“The Creatures That Time Forgot”은 레이 브래드버리(Ray Bradbury)가 쓴 SF 단편 소설로 1946년에 처음 출판되었다.
Sim은 극단적으로 짧은 수명을 가진 행성에서 태어나는데, 이 행성의 사람들은 8일 만에 태어나서 늙고 죽는다.
Sim은 태어나자마자 자신의 상황을 이해하고, 이 짧은 수명에서 벗어나기 위해 노력하기로 결심한다. 그는 과학자들을 찾아가 도움을 요청하고, 멀리 있는 우주선에 도달하면 구원받을 수 있을 것이라 믿는다. Sim은 Lyte라는 여자아이와 사랑에 빠지지만, 그들의 관계는 짧은 수명으로 인해 제한되는데…
이 이야기는 극단적으로 짧은 수명을 가진 세계에서의 생존과 의미 있는 삶에 대한 추구, 그리고 운명에 맞서는 인간의 의지를 강조하고 있다.
<Science fiction novels read in English _ The Creatures That Time Forgot by Ray Bradbury >
“The Creatures That Time Forgot” is a science fiction short story written by Ray Bradbury and first published in 1946.
Sims are born on a planet with an extremely short lifespan, where people are born, grow old, and die in just 8 days.
As soon as Sim is born, he understands his situation and decides to try to escape this short lifespan. He visits scientists to ask for help, and believes that he will be saved if he reaches a distant spaceship. Sim falls in love with a girl named Lyte, but their relationship is limited by their short lifespan...
This story emphasizes survival in a world with extremely short lifespans, the pursuit of a meaningful life, and the human will to face fate.
Summary
Mad, impossible world! Sun-blasted by day, cold-wracked by night—and life condensed by radiation into eight days! Sim eyed the Ship—if he only dared reach it and escape! ... but it was more than half an hour distant—the limit of life itself!
During the night, Sim was born. He lay wailing upon the cold cave stones. His blood beat through him a thousand pulses each minute. He grew, steadily.
Into his mouth his mother with feverish hands put the food. The nightmare of living was begun. Almost instantly at birth his eyes grew alert, and then, without half understanding why, filled with bright, insistent terror. He gagged upon the food, choked and wailed. He looked about, blindly.
There was a thick fog. It cleared. The outlines of the cave appeared. And a man loomed up, insane and wild and terrible. A man with a dying face.
