The Big Leap
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers interested in early Anglo-American short science fiction who want to expand their reading map
- English learners who need short original English texts for reading practice
- Enthusiasts of public-domain ebooks and the science-fiction magazine era
- Commuters who enjoy lightweight short stories readable in one sitting
Not a good fit for
- Science-fiction readers seeking a full-length novel with complete world-building
- Readers not yet proficient in English who need a Chinese translation
- Beginners expecting detailed notes and an introduction
Reading tips
- Read through once for the plot, then revisit the premise details to appreciate how the short story closes.
- After reading, look up the author's other stories and compare them with works from contemporary science-fiction magazines to establish a frame of reference.
- English learners can practice paragraph-by-paragraph retelling and build up common expressions for science-fiction scenes.
- It is short, so read it in one sitting; spreading it over days weakens the rhythm of a short story.
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
Charles E. Fritch (1927-2012) is an author about whom relatively little biographical information is publicly available; his nationality, education and professional career are not clearly documented, and what can be confirmed is only his name, his dates, and the six works held in the collection. Judging from titles such as I Like Martian Music, Skin Game, The Odyssey of Sam Meecham, The Pacifists, The Big Leap and Escape Mechanism, his writing largely revolves around science fiction and fantasy, often building stories from elements such as Mars, alien civilizations, game-like situations and escape mechanisms, with titles that carry a light, slightly ironic tone. Because further biographical details are lacking, judgments about his style and literary influence should remain cautious; readers may treat these six works as the main entry point to this author and to the imaginative and narrative pleasures of mid-to-late twentieth-century popular genre fiction.
