영어로 읽는 SF소설 _ 데이먼 나이트의 특별배송
"Special Delivery "는 미국의 과학 소설 작가 데이먼 나이트(Damon Knight)가 1954년에 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 _ Special Delivery by Damon Knight
"Special Delivery" is a short story written in 1954 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
All Len had to hear was the old gag: "We've never lost a father yet." His child was not even born and it was thoroughly unbearable!

Len stared at her; the whites of her eyes were showing: "Is there anything the matter with you?" he demanded.
"I don't know," she said on a rising note. "Nothing like that ever happened to me before. I didn't think it was funny at all. I was worried about you, and I didn't know I was going to laugh?" She laughed again, a trifle nervously. "Maybe I'm cracking up."
Moira was a dark-haired young woman with a placid, friendly disposition. Len had met her in his senior year at Columbia, with?looking at it impartially, which Len seldom did?regrettable results.

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