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The Jovian Sayings

About the Books

Author
Bok GEO-IL
Co-Author
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Translator
Bok GEO-IL
Publisher
스텔리온
Published Year
2014
Country
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Classification

KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century

Original Title
목성잠언집
Original Language

Korean(한국어)

Romanization of Original
Mokseongjameonjip
ISBN
9789810787912
Page
112
Volume
-

About the Author

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  • Bok Geo-il
  • Birth : 1946 ~ Unknown
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Geo-il
  • Family Name : Bok
  • Korean Name : 복거일
  • ISNI : 0000000048792861
  • Works : 5
About the Original Work
목성잠언집
  • 목성잠언집
  • Author : Bok Geo-il
  • Published Year : 2002
  • English Title : The Jovian Sayings
More About the Original Work
Descriptions
  • English(English)

"Even though they sailed across the vast emptiness in spaceships and lived under a strange sky, it is not that they changed their nature also." Thus observes Miriam Hahn, a Ganymedean historian of the 29th century, reviewing the history of the colonial societies on the Jovian system, paraphrasing Horace. The Jovian Sayings is a part of collected sayings of Ganymedean people, robots as well as humans, which survived the Ganymedean Catastrophe inflicted by a broken piece of Comet Rashid in 2998. The sayings, comprising pithy satires, earthy maxims, and lyrical poems, reveal in condensed forms the idiosyncratic features of a frontier society that had to constantly struggle to survive and expand in the harsh and unforgiving extraterrestrial environment. They are relevant to the terrestrial societies of the 21st century, as the editor of the salvaged book concludes In fact, as we reflect on their insightful sayings, we realize that we could get valuable lessons from them. As Horace said, Change the name, and the tale is about you.

 

Source : http://www.amazon.com/The-Jovian-Sayings-Bok-GEO-IL/dp/981078791X

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