End as a World
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A good fit for
- Readers who want a low-cost entry into English-language public-domain science fiction
- Enthusiasts interested in mid-twentieth-century American science fiction short stories
- Students who need short English readings for extensive reading practice
- Researchers studying the writing patterns of early science fiction magazines
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- Deep science fiction readers expecting long-form worldbuilding and complex settings
- Readers not yet proficient in English who need a Chinese translation
- Readers who prefer contemporary science fiction pacing and writing techniques
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- Read through once to grasp the direction of the story; don't look up every word—keep the reading flowing.
- On a second pass, notice how the author establishes the setting and advances the conflict within a short length.
- After reading, try summarizing the core proposition in a few sentences to check whether you have grasped the text's intent.
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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
F. L. Wallace (Floyd Lee Wallace, 1915–2004) was an American science fiction and mystery writer and a mechanical engineer. He was born in 1915 in Rock Island, Illinois, and died in 2004 in Tustin, California. From the 1950s onward he wrote short stories for science fiction magazines such as Galaxy as well as novels. Thirteen of his works are held in this collection, including Delay in Transit, The Man Who Was Six, End as a World, Forget Me Nearly, Address: Centauri, Student Body, Bolden's Pets and Accidental Flight. His writing often starts from the practical details of engineering and technology, combining precise speculation with suspense and reversal, and his subjects frequently involve space travel, mistaken identity and sudden crises. Public information about his life and career is limited, and readers' knowledge of him and his work still rests mainly on these short stories and novels scattered across various publications.
