Navy Day
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Beginner readers who want low-cost access to English-language science fiction short stories
- Enthusiasts studying the style of mid-twentieth-century genre fiction
- Students who need short texts for English extensive reading practice
Not a good fit for
- Science fiction readers looking for long, fully built fictional worlds
- Beginners who need modern annotations or a Chinese translation
Reading tips
- Read through once to grasp the plot, then revisit the setup clues planted at the beginning.
- Note unfamiliar military or technical terms while reading and look them up together afterward.
- Read it alongside other public-domain science fiction short stories to observe differences in period style.
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
Harry Harrison (1925–2012) was a writer best known for science fiction. Because public information is limited, his nationality, full biography and educational background are not reliably documented here, and no speculation is offered. Judging from the eleven works held in the collection, his themes range from space adventure and dystopian societies to satirical science fiction; representative titles include Deathworld, The Ethical Engineer, Planet of the Damned, The Repairman, The K-Factor, Arm of the Law, The Velvet Glove and Sense of Obligation. These works are marked by tight pacing, a witty and humorous tone, and a cool-eyed view of institutions and human nature, often using interstellar settings to explore responsibility, ethics and technological overreach. He wrote both short stories and novels, with clear prose and brisk plots, and remains recognizable to twentieth-century English-language science fiction readers.
