Millennium
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers interested in mid-twentieth-century English-language science fiction
- Fans who want to expand their science fiction reading with public-domain eBooks
- Readers with some English proficiency who want to try science fiction in the original
- Organizers who need short science fiction material for book clubs or classroom discussion
Not a good fit for
- Readers expecting contemporary hard science fiction or the complex world-building of a long novel
- Beginners with weak English reading skills who need Chinese annotations
- Readers seeking systematic research materials on the author's life and works
Reading tips
- Read the opening paragraphs first to gauge the narrative pace, then decide whether to read it in one sitting or in two.
- While reading, pay attention to the author's imagination of technology and society, and sum up the core setup in a few sentences afterward.
- If using it for a book club, prepare two or three discussion questions around how science fiction of that era imagined the future.
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
Everett B. Cole (1918–1977) was an American science fiction writer whose biography and educational background are poorly documented; only a limited body of work survives, mainly from the mid-twentieth-century science fiction magazine era. Seven of his works are held in this collection: The Best Made Plans, The Weakling, Final Weapon, Millennium, Indirection, Alarm Clock, and The Players, all short stories or short science fiction pieces. They generally revolve around future technology, social systems, and human weakness, often using ingenious premises and ironic narration to show the consequences of technology out of control or rigid institutions, and frequently ending with unexpected twists. Cole's style is concise and brisk, with attention to narrative pace and suspense, making him a reasonably representative writer of the popular science fiction magazines of his time.
