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"The Ambassador"는 사무엘 멀윈(Sam Merwin)이 쓴 과학 소설이다. 이 소설은 1954년에 발표되었으며, 주제는 외계 생명체와의 접촉 및 외교적 상호 작용에 관한 것이다. 이 책은 과학 소설의 고전 중 하나로 간주되며, 멀윈의 작품 중에서도 중요한 작품 중 하나다. "사무엘 멀윈(The Ambassador)"은 과학 소설 팬들에게 흥미로운 읽을 거리를 제공하는 것으로 유명하다.


"The Ambassador" is a science fiction novel written by Sam Merwin. The novel was published in 1954, and its themes concern contact and diplomatic interaction with extraterrestrial life. The book is considered one of the classics of science fiction, and is one of Merwin's most important works. “Samuel Mulwynn (The Ambassador)” is renowned for providing interesting reading material for science fiction fans.

Summary
All Earth needed was a good stiff dose of common sense, but its rulers preferred to depend on the highly fallible computers instead

Zalen Lindsay stood on the rostrum in the huge new United Worlds auditorium on the shore of Lake Pontchartrain and looked out at an ocean of eye-glasses. Individually they ranged in hue from the rose-tinted spectacles of the Americans to the dark brown of the Soviet bloc. Their shapes and adornments were legion: round, harlequin, diamond, rhomboid, octagonal, square, oval; rimless, gem-studded, horn-rimmed, floral-rimmed, rimmed in the cases of some of the lady representatives with immense artificial eyelashes.