Bodyguard
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who enjoy American Golden Age science fiction short stories
- English learners who want to practice reading with original short English texts
- Enthusiasts studying genre literature and the tradition of science fiction editing
- Readers who want a complete story for a commute or fragments of time
Not a good fit for
- Readers expecting a long novel with a complex world and deep character portrayal
- Readers seeking contemporary new science fiction or a Chinese translation
- Serious literary readers uninterested in early popular science fiction style
Reading tips
- Read through once to grasp the twist, then look back at details in the opening to appreciate the short story's construction.
- While reading, note how the occupational setting is made science-fictional, a common pleasure in Gold's short stories.
- English learners can choose a passage with fewer unfamiliar words for close reading and accumulate common expressions in genre literature.
- After finishing, compare with other Golden Age science fiction short stories to compare narrative pacing and endings.
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
Horace Leonard Gold (1914–1996) was born in Montreal, Canada, and later became a naturalized U.S. citizen. He was a science fiction writer and editor. In 1950 he founded Galaxy Science Fiction, using the magazine as a platform to push science fiction toward social, psychological, and satirical themes, and he discovered writers such as Ray Bradbury and Alfred Bester, exerting a profound influence on the development of twentieth-century science fiction. The library holds five of his works, including The Old Die Rich, Someone to Watch Over Me, At the Post, Bodyguard, and No Charge for Alterations, commonly classified under inspirational growth. His writing consists mainly of short stories, focusing on characters' circumstances and psychological portrayal, often observing social reality through satire, with concise plots and a pragmatic style. Public information is limited, and details of his life and the full scope of his work remain to be further examined.
