Pandemic
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who enjoy classic English-language science fiction short stories and want a quick read
- Teachers and students using English short stories for extensive reading or classroom discussion
- Readers interested in speculative fiction about plagues who can accept early science fiction style
Not a good fit for
- Readers expecting rigorous epidemiological detail and contemporary medical worldbuilding
- Science fiction fans who prefer long, complex worldbuilding and deep character development
- Readers who rely entirely on Chinese translations and do not read the English original
Reading tips
- Read it in one sitting, then revisit the key turning points to trace the author's logic of crisis extrapolation
- After reading, compare it with contemporary plague fiction and discuss the gap between imagination and reality
- Use it as English extensive reading material, noting unfamiliar words and period expressions
- Read Bone's other short stories alongside it to understand his 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
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.
