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"The Shobies' Story" is a 1990 science fiction novella by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, describing the story of the first human crew to participate in a newly invented faster-than-light mode of space travel. It was first published in the anthology ''Universe'' and subsequently appeared in ''A Fisherman of the Inland Sea'' published by Harper Prism in 1994. The crew forms a miniature society in which each member must participate in creating a cohesive group narrative to alter the nature of reality, which causes the travel. "The Shobies' Story" is notable because Le Guin replaces the traditional militaristic and hierarchical chain of command used in traditional space travel with voluntary consensus.〔Cramer, Kathryn & Hartwell, David G. ''Space Opera Renaissance'', (New York, NY: Tom Doherty Associates, 2006), page 727-8.〕 "The Shobies' Story" was nominated for a Nebula Award in the novelette category in 1991.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Nebula Awards Nominee List )〕 ==Plot summary== A starship crew faces the physical and psychic effects of traveling faster than light from Hain, the Prime World, the source of the oldest culture and most intelligent life among the planetary group called the Ekumen. Their entire journey involving time-travel lasts only forty-four minutes. The crew calls themselves the Shobies after their ship's name, ''Shoby''. The crews' ritual is gathering around a campfire to discuss the Churten theory and to tell stories that will bond them together. Gveter, the only Cetian in the crew, is much hairier than and not as gifted in language as the others, and he holds close to his knowledge. As a space crew, they had operated by consensual decision using transilience rather than by chain of command. Transilience is the experience of entering the fiction world by way of the imagination. Their equipment that facilitates transilience stops functioning and they can't agree on what they perceive. They start to lose their social cohesion and in order for the Shobies to tell their story, they must establish themselves with relation to time. 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「The Shobies' Story」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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