Assassin
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who enjoy mid-twentieth-century American science fiction and want to broaden their genre reading
- Learners who need free public-domain English books for extensive reading practice
- Researchers and fans studying the work of early science fiction magazine writers
- Readers who prefer short stories or novellas and want a book they can finish quickly
Not a good fit for
- Readers who want a Chinese translation and are not comfortable reading in English
- Readers expecting detailed annotations, an introduction, or a scholarly edition
- Readers who prefer contemporary long-form science fiction and have little patience for older narrative pacing
Reading tips
- Read through once for the plot, then look up unfamiliar words on a second pass, so you don't break the rhythm by stopping to check every word.
- Spend ten minutes learning about the mid-twentieth-century American science fiction magazine scene before reading; it will help you understand the setting.
- Read in short sessions on your commute or before bed, one or two chapters at a time, to keep the pace light.
- After finishing, write a three-to-five-sentence summary in English as both a reading exercise and a review of the content.
About the publisher
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
Jesse Franklin Bone (1916–2006) was an American veterinarian and science fiction writer, born in Tacoma, Washington, in 1916 and died in Arizona in 2006. He served in the U.S. Army Veterinary Corps and later became a professor at Oregon State University. Alongside his professional work, he wrote science fiction over many years, publishing his first story in 1957. Twelve of his works are held in the collection, including Noble Redman, Insidekick, Founding Father, Assassin, On the Fourth Planet, Pandemic, A Prize for Edie and To Choke an Ocean. His short fiction often deals with interstellar exploration, alien contact, and medical or biological crises, frequently approaching them from a professional perspective; the plots are tight and carry the speculative flavor of Golden Age science fiction. His representative work is The Lani People, and his short story Triggerman was nominated for the Hugo Award. Public information is limited, and details of his life and the full range of his work remain to be further organized.
