<영어로 읽는 공상과학 소설 _ 벤 보바의 응답하라>
벤 보바(Ben Bova)가 1962년에 출판한 SF 소설이다. 벤저민 윌리엄 보바는 미국의 작가이다. 120권이 넘는 과학책과 과학 소설을 썼다. 〈아날로그 사이언스 팩트 & 픽션〉 편집자로서 휴고상을 여섯 차례 받았다. 미국 SF 작가 협회 회장을 맡았다. 코로나19 범유행중인 2020년 코로나19에 의한 폐렴과 뇌졸중으로 사망하였다.
소설은 남극에 주둔 중인 두 군인이 먼 별에서 보내는 신비한 신호를 포착하는 SF 이야기다. 천문학자이기도 한 군인들은 메시지를 해독하고 그것이 어디서 왔는지 알아내려고 노력한다.


This is a science fiction novel published by Ben Bova in 1962. Benjamin William Bova is an American writer. He has written over 120 science books and science novels. He won the Hugo Award six times as editor of Analog Science Fact & Fiction. He served as president of the Science Fiction Writers of America. He died of pneumonia and stroke caused by COVID-19 in 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The novel is a science fiction story about two soldiers stationed in Antarctica who capture a mysterious signal from a distant star. The soldiers, who are also astronomers, try to decipher the message and find out where it came from.

Summary
Astronomer Bova draws upon the facts of his field to weave a story that will grip your emotions and tantalize your mind?long after you have finished reading it.

We had been at the South Pole a week. The outside thermometer read fifty degrees below zero, Fahrenheit. The winter was just beginning.
"What do you think we should transmit to McMurdo?" I asked Rizzo.
He put down his magazine and half-sat up in his bunk. For a moment there was silence, except for the nearly inaudible hum of the machinery that jammed our tiny dome, and the muffled shrieking of the ever-present wind, above us.

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