Fly By Night
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who enjoy mid-twentieth-century American popular short fiction
- Light readers who want to use spare moments to read English originals
- Writing enthusiasts studying narrative pacing in popular literature
- Readers interested in public-domain ebooks and Project Gutenberg
Not a good fit for
- Readers expecting long, complex plots or deep character arcs
- Beginners who need a Chinese translation or bilingual edition
- Readers who prefer contemporary subjects and contemporary narrative techniques
Reading tips
- Read through once to grasp the plot, then a second time to notice how dialogue drives the conflict.
- Read it over two or three sittings on a commute or before sleep; there is no need to finish in one go.
- After reading, jot down how the opening and ending echo each other to appreciate the short-story structure.
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
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.
