DP

Arthur Dekker SavageProject Gutenberg · United StatesMar 2023

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Word count: 31K words
Chapters: 4

Summary

Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today. DP by Arthur Dekker Savage. Author: Savage, Arthur Dekker. Language: English. Class: PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature. Release Date: Oct 21, 2009

Editor's review

DP is an English-language literary work by Arthur Dekker Savage, reissued as a free eBook by Project Gutenberg and classified as a public-domain text under American and Canadian literature. For readers unfamiliar with the author, it is better approached as a documentary reading experience than as a bestseller-list title. Its value lies not in introductory packaging or celebrity endorsements but in the accessibility of the original text: readers can directly encounter the feel and narrative rhythm of twentieth-century English popular writing at little cost. As an electronic edition, its main barrier to entry is language rather than length, making it suitable as material for extensive reading in English or for browsing as literary-historical source material. If you are used to reading on electronic devices in short sessions, you can work through it in segments during commutes or spare moments; if you want detailed annotations and background interpretation, you will need to supplement the material yourself. Overall, it suits readers with an exploratory interest in public-domain English literature who are willing to judge the text's value on their own.

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Arthur Dekker Savage Author

Arthur Dekker Savage was a science fiction short story writer active in the early 1950s. His life, nationality, and dates of birth and death are unrecorded in authoritative sources, and publicly available information about him is very limited. Between 1952 and 1954 he published stories such as "The Butterfly Kiss," "D P," and "Trees Are Where You Find Them" in American magazines including If and Orbit; four of his works are held in the collection, along with "Fly By Night." These short pieces, often built on ingenious premises and brisk narration, carry the exploratory spirit of early science fiction magazine fiction and are frequently classed as inspirational and coming-of-age reading. He subsequently withdrew from the literary scene, leaving few further traces. Though his output was small, it remains a modest footnote for studying the American science fiction short story landscape of the 1950s.