<영어로 읽는 공상과학 소설 _ 잭 샤키의 화성에 미치다>
"The Dope on Mars"는 Jack Sharkey가 쓴 과학 소설 단편으로, 1960년 Galaxy Magazine에 발표되었다. 이 작품은 화성에서 벌어지는 이야기를 다루고 있으며, 특유의 유머와 기발한 상상력으로 독자들에게 인기를 끌었다.
작품의 줄거리는 지구에서 온 인물이 화성에 도착해 벌어지는 사건과 화성인들과의 상호작용을 중심으로 전개된다. Jack Sharkey의 다른 작품들처럼 이 소설도 예상치 못한 반전과 재미있는 캐릭터들로 가득하다.
"The Dope on Mars" is a science fiction short story written by Jack Sharkey and published in Galaxy Magazine in 1960. This work deals with a story that takes place on Mars, and was popular with readers for its unique humor and ingenious imagination.
The plot of the work revolves around the events that occur when a person from Earth arrives on Mars and his interactions with the Martians. Like Jack Sharkey's other works, this novel is full of unexpected twists and interesting characters.
Summary
Somebody had to get the human angle on this trip ... but what was humane about sending me?
My agent was the one who got me the job of going along to write up the first trip to Mars. He was always getting me things like that—appearances on TV shows, or mentions in writers' magazines. If he didn't sell much of my stuff, at least he sold me.
"It'll be the biggest break a writer ever got," he told me, two days before blastoff. "Oh, sure there'll be scientific reports on the trip, but the public doesn't want them; they want the human slant on things."
잭 샤키 (존 마이클 샤키, 1931년 5월 6일 ~ 1992년 9월 28일)는 미국 작가로서 80편 이상의 희곡을 집필했다. 그는 다양한 필명으로도 활동했다.
샤키는 일리노이주 시카고에서 태어났다. 1960년대에 그는 플레이보이에서 일했으며 올스테이트 보험 회사의 회사 잡지 편집장이기도 했다.
1959년 단편소설 "The Captain of His Soul"을 통해 SF 작가로 데뷔했으며, 이후 "갤럭시 SF" 등의 잡지에 약 50편의 단편소설을 발표했다. 샤키는 자신의 이름과 더불어 릭 애벗, 마크 챈들러, 몽크 페리스, 마이크 존슨이라는 네 가지 필명으로 희곡을 집필했다. 살인, 마에스트로, 부탁합니다 (1960), 비밀 화성인 (1960) 등의 소설이 있다.
Jack Sharkey ( John Michael Sharkey; May 6, 1931 – September 28, 1992) was an American writer who wrote more than 80 plays. He also worked under various pen names.
Sharkey was born in Chicago, Illinois. In the 1960s, he worked for Playboy and was editor-in-chief of Allstate Insurance Company's corporate magazine.
He debuted as a science fiction writer with his short story "The Captain of His Soul" in 1959, and later published about 50 short stories in magazines such as "Galaxy Science Fiction". In addition to his own name, Sharkey wrote plays under four pseudonyms: Rick Abbott, Mark Chandler, Monk Ferris, and Mike Johnson. Murder.