Spillthrough
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers curious about mid-twentieth-century American science fiction short stories
- Casual readers who prefer short, fast-paced science fiction
- Students and enthusiasts studying early science fiction magazine writing conventions
- Commuters who read English e-books and want lightweight reading
Not a good fit for
- Readers expecting long-form worldbuilding and complex character arcs
- Readers sensitive to the period limitations of early science fiction
- Readers who need a Chinese translation and do not read English originals
Reading tips
- Read through once to grasp the plot twist, then revisit the opening to see how the foreshadowing was planted.
- Read alongside other Golden Age science fiction short stories to compare how premises are constructed.
- After reading, note the logical gaps or highlights of the core premise for discussion.
- Use the electronic edition in fragmented time; it works best read in a single sitting.
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
Daniel F. Galouye (1920–1976) was an American science fiction writer. He was born in New Orleans in 1920 and died in the same city in 1976. During World War II he served as a navy test pilot, and later worked for many years at the States-Item newspaper. He began publishing science fiction in 1952. His representative works include Dark Universe and Simulacron-3, as well as Spillthrough, All Jackson's Children, and The Chasers, which are held in this collection. His writing is known for its hard science fiction structure and its exploration of the nature of reality; Simulacron-3 was adapted into the film The Thirteenth Floor. This collection holds three of his works, while information on common categories is currently unavailable. Overall, he was a noteworthy mid-twentieth-century American science fiction author who probed the boundary between the real and the illusory within rigorously constructed speculative settings. Because public information is limited, the details of his life and the full scope of his work remain to be further examined.
