An Empty Bottle
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who enjoy short stories for fragmented reading time
- Genre readers studying American popular short fiction
- Language learners doing extensive reading practice with English short stories
- Readers interested in mid-twentieth-century short fiction by women authors
Not a good fit for
- Readers who prefer long, complex plots and extensive world-building
- Readers expecting strong science fiction or suspense thrills
- Beginners who need extensive notes and in-depth guides
Reading tips
- After finishing the story in one sitting, revisit how the title image appears and changes in the text.
- Note the turn or open ending and consider why the author closes there.
- Compare with other American short stories of the same period, looking at narrative pacing and choice of subject.
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Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Mari Wolf (born August 27, 1926) was an American science fiction writer and magazine columnist, born in Laguna Beach, California. She studied mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles, and later worked at aerospace institutions such as the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Her 1952 story "Robots of the World! Arise!" is regarded as one of the earliest works to use the term "droid" for robots. Her short fiction appeared mostly in If magazine; she also wrote The Golden Frame (1961) and long contributed the fan column "Fandora's Box" to Imagination. Six of her works are held in this collection, including The Very Secret Agent and Homo Inferior. Her stories often explore robots, future societies, and human nature, with bold imagination and a concise style, and hold a modest place among readers of early science fiction magazines.
