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Troisième Humanité #1A
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베르나르 베르베르 특유의 상상력으로 축조한 장대한 스케일의 과학 소설. 작품은 시작부터 심상치 않다. 첫머리에서 소설의 시간적 무대를 "당신이 이 소설책을 펴서 읽기 시작하는 순간으로부터 정확히 10년 뒤의 오늘"이라는 상대적 시점으로 선언하고, 현 인류가 문명을 이룩한 첫 번째 인류가 아니라는 설정을 깔고 시작한다.
첫 번째 인류는 키가 17미터에 달하는 초거인들이었으며, 고도의 문명을 이룩했던 그들이 오늘의 우리, 현재의 인류를 창조했다는 것. 남극에서 시작되는 소설의 첫 장면은 그 증거가 드러나는 현장이다. 저명한 고생물학자 샤를 웰즈의 탐사대가 남극의 만년빙 아래에서 8천 년 전에 소멸한 거인들의 유골과 벽화 기록을 발굴한다. 그러나 인류사를 다시 쓰게 만들 이 중대한 발견은 발굴 현장의 사고와 함께 곧바로 파묻히고 만다.
한편, 파리에서는 대통령 직속 비밀 기관의 지원을 받는 과학자들이 황폐한 환경과 방사능 속에서도 살아남을 신종 인간을 탄생시키려는 비밀 프로젝트를 추진하고 있다. 진화가 소형화의 방향으로 진행된다고 믿는 생물학자 다비드 웰즈, 여성화가 인류의 미래라고 믿는 내분비학자 오로르 카메러가 그 연구의 중심에 서 있다. 이들이 탄생시키려 하는 인류는 크기로는 초소형, 성적으로는 여성이 대다수인 새로운 인간이 될 것이다. 이름하여 '에마슈'.
베르베르는 이 에마슈들이 인간의 손에 의해 창조된다면 어떤 일이 벌어질지, 이들의 사회는 어떤 모습이 될지, 인간과의 관계는 어떻게 될지 거대한 규모의 상상세계를 흥미롭게 펼쳐 보인다.
첫 번째 인류는 키가 17미터에 달하는 초거인들이었으며, 고도의 문명을 이룩했던 그들이 오늘의 우리, 현재의 인류를 창조했다는 것. 남극에서 시작되는 소설의 첫 장면은 그 증거가 드러나는 현장이다. 저명한 고생물학자 샤를 웰즈의 탐사대가 남극의 만년빙 아래에서 8천 년 전에 소멸한 거인들의 유골과 벽화 기록을 발굴한다. 그러나 인류사를 다시 쓰게 만들 이 중대한 발견은 발굴 현장의 사고와 함께 곧바로 파묻히고 만다.
한편, 파리에서는 대통령 직속 비밀 기관의 지원을 받는 과학자들이 황폐한 환경과 방사능 속에서도 살아남을 신종 인간을 탄생시키려는 비밀 프로젝트를 추진하고 있다. 진화가 소형화의 방향으로 진행된다고 믿는 생물학자 다비드 웰즈, 여성화가 인류의 미래라고 믿는 내분비학자 오로르 카메러가 그 연구의 중심에 서 있다. 이들이 탄생시키려 하는 인류는 크기로는 초소형, 성적으로는 여성이 대다수인 새로운 인간이 될 것이다. 이름하여 '에마슈'.
베르베르는 이 에마슈들이 인간의 손에 의해 창조된다면 어떤 일이 벌어질지, 이들의 사회는 어떤 모습이 될지, 인간과의 관계는 어떻게 될지 거대한 규모의 상상세계를 흥미롭게 펼쳐 보인다.
445 pages, Hardcover
Published October 21, 2013
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About the author
Bernard Werber
163 books1,720 followersBernard Werber's "Ants" trilogy made him one of France's most popular science fiction novelists in the 90s. Werber began studying journalism in 1982 in Paris, where he discovered the work of sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick. In 1991 he published the novel Les Fourmis (Empire of the Ants), a complex fantasy novel in which ants were the heroes and humans the pesty antagonists. The novel became a cult hit across Europe, and Werber followed it with two other books in the same vein: Le Jour des Fourmis (Day of the Ants,1992) and La Révolution des Fourmis (Revolution of the Ants, 1995). His other books include L'Empire des Anges (Empire of the Angels, 2000) and L'Arbre des possibles (The Tree of Possibles, 2002).
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January 17, 2016
Bernard Werber is one of the most famous author in Korea. How much? He is even more famous in Korea than France, his home country. And I can't believe that I'd not known this great author for 16 years.
The title is "3rd Humanity", and I'd finished volume one during this winter break. After I started reading, I literally swallowed this book in 3 hours because I just couldn't stop reading The whole plot can be explained with three sentences. 1. We are not the first mankind. 2. There was mankind before us. 3. There will be after us, in totally different form. The story begins with an archeologist discovering a giant human bone buried underneath the Antartica. He believes that there was a mankind that was different from us in size, and they were 10 times larger than us. The first mankind lived in a island, and they constructed a highly-evolved society, and they made a miniature version of them, which is us, the current version of mankind. Eventually, the giant humans get extinct because of a gigantic tsunami after a collision of an astroid, and only the miniature version mankind survives because they were expelled from the island for being rebellious to the first mankind. Now, the second mankind are all over the Earth, and their world is rapidly developing and ruining the Earth at the same time. They even succeed in making a new mankind that is one tenth a size of them. At the same time, Earth is preparing for another sweep on mankind.
The authors' imagination is beyond any expectation. It is ridiculous of thinking there would be another mankind before us, but by the authors' plausible explanation and tightly written plot, all seems to make perfect sense. This book is definitely one of my favorites and I really want to read the next volume as soon as possible. I liked the way sentences were written, but because this is a translated version, I would say I like the translator's way of writing. So, it might be hard to recommend English readers this book because of the author's writing techniques. Maybe this is the reason why Bernard Werber is strangely popular in Korea. Nevertheless, I would recommend this book to all my friends and teachers for the author shows his unlimited imagination that would surprise you.
The title is "3rd Humanity", and I'd finished volume one during this winter break. After I started reading, I literally swallowed this book in 3 hours because I just couldn't stop reading The whole plot can be explained with three sentences. 1. We are not the first mankind. 2. There was mankind before us. 3. There will be after us, in totally different form. The story begins with an archeologist discovering a giant human bone buried underneath the Antartica. He believes that there was a mankind that was different from us in size, and they were 10 times larger than us. The first mankind lived in a island, and they constructed a highly-evolved society, and they made a miniature version of them, which is us, the current version of mankind. Eventually, the giant humans get extinct because of a gigantic tsunami after a collision of an astroid, and only the miniature version mankind survives because they were expelled from the island for being rebellious to the first mankind. Now, the second mankind are all over the Earth, and their world is rapidly developing and ruining the Earth at the same time. They even succeed in making a new mankind that is one tenth a size of them. At the same time, Earth is preparing for another sweep on mankind.
The authors' imagination is beyond any expectation. It is ridiculous of thinking there would be another mankind before us, but by the authors' plausible explanation and tightly written plot, all seems to make perfect sense. This book is definitely one of my favorites and I really want to read the next volume as soon as possible. I liked the way sentences were written, but because this is a translated version, I would say I like the translator's way of writing. So, it might be hard to recommend English readers this book because of the author's writing techniques. Maybe this is the reason why Bernard Werber is strangely popular in Korea. Nevertheless, I would recommend this book to all my friends and teachers for the author shows his unlimited imagination that would surprise you.
September 15, 2023
Sounds soooo ethically problematic but because it’s a novel it was quite interesting
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