...After it was discovered that intelligent life could not exist on Mars, interest shifted to planets in distant star systems, and the imagination of aliens became extremely diverse. SG Weinbaum's "A Martian Odyssey" (1934) created several models in which organisms in different environments think in completely different ways, and had a great influence on later science fiction. Among them was a unique organism whose main component was silicon instead of carbon, and which could eat sand and turn back into sand. The story ends without revealing whether it was an intelligent organism or not. ... *Some of the terminology referenced in "Weinbaum, SG" is listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…やがて,火星に知的生物が存在しえないことがわかると,遠い恒星系の惑星に関心が移り,宇宙人の想像図も多様をきわめるものとなった。ワインボウムS.G.Weinbaumの《火星のオデッセイ》(1934)は異なった環境の生物がまったく異なった思考をするという幾つかのモデルを作って,のちのSFに大きな影響を残した。それらの中には炭素のかわりにケイ(珪)素を主成分とし,砂を食べて砂に戻るような異色の生物も含まれており,それが知的生物であるのかどうかついにわからないまま物語は終わる。… ※「Weinbaum,S.G.」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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