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"릴 라이프 필름(Reel Life Films)"은 샘 머윈 주니어(Sam Merwin Jr.)가 쓴 SF 단편 소설로, 1954년에 처음 출판되었다. 이 이야기는 개인이 놀라울 정도로 사실적인 가상 현실 시뮬레이션을 경험할 수 있을 정도로 기술이 발전한 미래를 배경으로 하고 있다.
새뮤얼 킴벌 머윈 주니어(Samuel Kimball Merwin, Jr.)는 미국의 추리소설, 과학소설 작가이다. 대부분의 소설을 샘 머윈 주니어(Sam Merwin, Jr) 라는 이름으로 발표했으며, 엘리자베스 디어 베넷(Elizabeth Deare Bennett), 자크 진 페랏(Jacques Jean Ferrat), 카터 스프래그(Carter Sprague)라는 필명도 사용했다. 평행우주물인 《유령섬》(The House of Many Worlds, 1951년)이 대표작이다.


"Reel Life Films" is a science fiction short story written by Sam Merwin Jr., first published in 1954. The story is set in a future where technology has advanced to the point where individuals can experience incredibly realistic virtual reality simulations.
Samuel Kimball Merwin, Jr. is an American mystery novel and science fiction writer. He published most of his novels under the name Sam Merwin, Jr. He also used the pen names Elizabeth Deare Bennett, Jacques Jean Ferrat, and Carter Sprague. . His parallel universe work “Ghost Island” (The House of Many Worlds, 1951) is his representative work.

Summary
Pity the poor purveyor of mere entertainment in today's world. He can't afford to offend a soul, yet must have a villain.

Twenty-five years ago Cyril Bezdek and E. Carter Dorwin would have met in a private railway car belonging to one of them. They might even have met in a private train. At any rate they would have met in absolute privacy. But it being the present, they had to be content with a series of adjoining rooms taking up less than one half of a car on the Super-Sachem, fastest coast-to-coast train in the country.