영어로 읽는 SF소설 _ 에드먼드 해밀턴의 마지막 호출
"Last Call for Doomsday!"는 Edmond Hamilton이 1950년대에 발표한 과학 소설 작품입니다. 이 소설은 Hamilton의 중기 작품으로, 그의 우주 모험 스타일이 원숙기에 접어든 시기의 대표작 중 하나입니다.

이 작품의 배경은 인류가 우주 문명으로 발전한 먼 미래입니다. 그러나 이 찬란한 미래에 갑작스러운 종말의 위협이 닥칩니다. 주인공은 이 위기를 해결하기 위해 시간과 공간을 넘나드는 모험을 떠나게 됩니다.

Hamilton은 이 소설을 통해 인류 문명의 운명과 우주의 신비를 탐구합니다. 그의 상상력은 독자들을 놀라운 외계 세계와 미지의 차원으로 안내하며, 동시에 인간의 본질과 생존 의지에 대한 깊은 통찰을 제공합니다.

"Last Call for Doomsday!"는 긴박한 서사와 철학적 질문들을 절묘하게 결합시킵니다. 이 소설은 단순한 우주 모험을 넘어, 인류의 존재 의미와 우주에서의 우리의 위치에 대해 생각해보게 만듭니다.

Hamilton 특유의 박진감 넘치는 서술과 광활한 우주를 배경으로 한 스케일 큰 이야기는 독자들을 매료시킬 것입니다. 과학 소설 팬들은 물론, 인류의 운명과 우주의 신비에 관심 있는 모든 독자들에게 강력히 추천하는 작품입니다.

Reading Science Fiction Novels in English _ Last Call for Doomsday! by Edmond Hamilton
"Last Call for Doomsday!" is a science fiction novel published by Edmond Hamilton in the 1950s. This novel is one of Hamilton's mid-period works, and is one of his representative works from the period when his space adventure style reached its maturity.

The setting of this work is a distant future where humanity has developed into a space civilization. However, this brilliant future is suddenly threatened by the threat of apocalypse. The protagonist embarks on an adventure across time and space to solve this crisis.

Through this novel, Hamilton explores the fate of human civilization and the mysteries of the universe. His imagination takes readers into amazing alien worlds and unknown dimensions, while at the same time providing deep insight into the nature of humanity and the will to survive.

"Last Call for Doomsday!" exquisitely combines an urgent narrative with philosophical questions. Beyond a simple space adventure, this novel makes us think about the meaning of humanity's existence and our place in the universe.

Hamilton's signature fast-paced narrative and grand-scale story set in the vast universe will captivate readers. Highly recommended for science fiction fans as well as anyone interested in the fate of humanity and the mysteries of the universe.

Summary
Wales saw men around him become savage beasts, shooting, looting, killing in frantic hysteria. Men without hope, they awaited the?
Last Call For Doomsday!

A deep shudder shook Jay Wales. He wished now he hadn't had to come back here to Earth this last time. He wanted to remember the old world of man as it had been, not as it was now in its dying hour.
"It seems impossible that it will really happen," said Hollenberg, the docket captain.
He wasn't looking at Earth. He was looking beyond it at the glittering stars.
Wales looked too. He knew where to look. He saw the faint little spark of light far across the Solar System.

Contents
CHAPTER I. A deep shudder shook Jay Wales
CHAPTER II. It was the very number of Wales' attackers
CHAPTER III. Twice Wales stopped his car
CHAPTER IV. They ran forward and were suddenly in a narrow street
CHAPTER V. Wales regained a foggy consciousness
CHAPTER VI. Three men got out of the car and stood
CHAPTER VII. Wales still felt the shock of terrible surprise
CHAPTER VIII. Thunder rolled and bellowed across the night sky
CHAPTER IX. Over New York there hung in the sky