영어로 읽는 SF소설 _ 데이먼 나이트의 우주의 지구인 거주지
"The Earth Quarter"는 미국의 과학 소설 작가 데이먼 나이트(Damon Knight)가 1955년에 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 Earth Quarter by Damon Knight
"The Earth Quarter" is a short story written in 1955 by American science fiction writer Damon Knight. Damon Knight is known as a prominent science fiction writer, editor, and critic who was active in the mid-20th century.
Damon Knight was a key figure in the 20th-century American science fiction world, and was active in many ways 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
The Niori permitted refugees from Earth to live in their cramped little ghetto conditionally: that they do so peacefully. But there will always be patriotic fanatics, like Harkway and Rack,
who must disturb the peace....

The sun had set half an hour before. Now, from the window of Laszlo Cudyk's garret, he could see how the alien city shone frost-blue against the black sky; the tall hive-shapes that no man would have built, glowing with their own light.
Nearer, the slender drunken shafts of lamp posts marched toward him down the street, each with its prosaic yellow globe. Between them and all around, the darkness had gathered; darkness in angular shapes, the geometry of squalor.

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The Earth Quarter