Victory
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- Readers wanting to understand early twentieth-century American science fiction short story style
- English learners needing original English short story material for reading practice
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- Read through once to feel the narrative pacing, then look back at how the title and ending echo each other.
- Read alongside other golden-age science fiction short stories to appreciate the era's writing conventions.
- If English reading is difficult, look up key vocabulary first, avoiding stopping at every word.
- After reading, note the most memorable scene in a journal for later review.
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About the author
Lester Del Rey (1915-1993) was an American science fiction writer, with 11 of his works held in this collection. Public information is limited, and details of his life are difficult to verify, but the surviving works show that his writing spanned novels and short stories, often dealing with space adventure, the ethics of technology, and catastrophic crises. Representative works include Badge of Infamy, No Strings Attached, Dead Ringer, Let ‘Em Breathe Space!, The Sky Is Falling, Operation Distress, Earthbound, and Victory. These titles suggest a concern with social order, identity, and the human condition, with narratives that carry reflections on the consequences of technology through tight plotting, in a popular style that nonetheless retains tension. His works had a certain influence among mid-twentieth-century American science fiction readers, and some pieces are still selected for science fiction anthologies, offering readers a view of the genre in that era.
