| 翻訳と辞書 |
| Misfit (short story) ： ウィキペディア英語版 |
Misfit (short story)
"Misfit" is a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein. It was originally titled ''Cosmic Construction Corps'' before being renamed by the editor John W. Campbell.〔 The short was first published in the November 1939 issue of ''Astounding Science Fiction''. One of the earliest of his Future History stories, it was later included in the collections ''Revolt in 2100'' and ''The Past Through Tomorrow''.
==Plot summary==
The story concerns Andrew Jackson Libby (here nicknamed Pinky, for his red hair, but later nicknamed Slipstick), a boy from Earth with extraordinary mathematical ability〔 but meager education. Finding few opportunities on Earth, he joins the ''Cosmic Construction Corps'', a future military-led version of the Civilian Conservation Corps employing out-of-work youth to colonize the Solar System. With a group of other inexperienced young men he is assigned to a ship traveling to the asteroid belt where their task is to move an asteroid into a more convenient orbit between Mars and Earth. Pinky comes to the Captain's attention during the process of blasting holes in the asteroid for rocket engines when Pinky realizes that a mistake has been made in calculating the size of the charge, preventing a catastrophic blast. He is assigned to the ship's astrogation computer. During the trip back to Earth the computer malfunctions and Libby takes over, performing all the complex calculations in his head. The asteroid is settled successfully into its final orbit.
"Slipstick" Libby became one of Heinlein's recurring characters, and would later appear in several works associated with Lazarus Long, among them ''Methuselah's Children'' and ''The Cat Who Walks Through Walls''.
The short story includes one of the first examples of the phrase "space marine".
抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』
■ウィキペディアで「Misfit (short story)」の詳細全文を読む
スポンサード リンク
| 翻訳と辞書 : 翻訳のためのインターネットリソース |
Copyright(C) kotoba.ne.jp 1997-2016. All Rights Reserved.
|
|