영어로 읽는 SF소설 _ 데이먼 나이트의 지구 수호자
"The Avenger"는 미국의 과학 소설 작가 데이먼 나이트(Damon Knight)가 1944년에 쓴 단편 소설입니다. 데이먼 나이트는 20세기 중반에 활동한 저명한 SF 작가이자 편집자, 비평가로 알려져 있습니다.
Damon Knight는 20세기 미국 과학 소설계의 핵심 인물로, 작가, 편집자, 비평가, 교육자로서 다방면에서 활약했습니다. 그는 "To Serve Man" 등의 인상적인 작품을 집필했고, 여러 과학 소설 잡지와 선집을 편집하며 신인 작가 발굴에 힘썼습니다. 날카로운 비평으로 장르의 질적 향상에 기여했으며, 클라리온 작가 워크샵을 공동 설립해 많은 신진 작가를 양성했습니다.

Reading Science Fiction Novels in English _ The Avenger by Damon Knight
"The Avenger" is a short story written in 1944 by American science fiction writer Damon Knight. Damon Knight is known as a prominent science fiction writer, editor, and critic active in the mid-20th century.
Damon Knight was a key figure in the 20th-century American science fiction world, and was active in various fields as a writer, editor, critic, and educator. He wrote impressive works such as "To Serve Man" and edited several science fiction magazines and anthologies, working hard to discover new writers. He contributed to the qualitative improvement of the genre with his sharp criticism, and co-founded the Clarion Writers' Workshop, nurturing many new writers.

Summary
Karson was creating a superman to fight the weird super-monsters who had invaded Earth. But he was forgetting one tiny thing?like calls to like.

Young Peter Karson put the last black-print down and sighed with satisfaction. His dream was perfect; theCitadel was complete, every minutest detail provided for?on paper. In two weeks they would be laying the core, and then the metal giant itself would begin to grow, glittering, pulsing with each increment of power, until at last it lay finished, a living thing.
Then there would remain only the task of blasting the great, shining ship out into the carefully-calculated orbit that would be its home. In his mind's eye he could see it, slowly wheeling, like a second satellite, about the Earth; endlessly gathering knowledge into its insatiable mechanisms.

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The Avenger