Insidekick
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A good fit for
- Readers who enjoy mid-twentieth-century American science fiction short stories
- General readers who want to sample a public-domain science fiction ebook in a short time
- Students and teachers who need a short story sample for a genre literature course
- Science fiction fans who read English short stories on commutes or in fragments of time
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- Readers seeking long-form worldbuilding and complex character arcs
- Beginners who need modern notes, introductions, and detailed background explanations
- Readers with low tolerance for early science fiction phrasing conventions
Reading tips
- Read it in one sitting; grasp the core science fiction premise first, then revisit the details
- Note how mid-century science fiction imagines technology and society
- Compare it with other public-domain science fiction short stories to observe common genre structures
- Jot down the premise and turning points afterward for discussion or short reviews
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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
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.
