Volpla
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Foreign-language readers who want a low-cost introduction to the American science fiction short story tradition
- Organizers of science fiction book clubs who need a short text to spark discussion
- General readers interested in technology and social psychology
- E-book users accustomed to fragmented reading in original English
Not a good fit for
- Readers who can read only Chinese and cannot handle the original English
- Science fiction fans expecting long-form worldbuilding and hard-tech detail
- Readers with little patience for mid-twentieth-century narrative style
Reading tips
- Read through once for the plot, then revisit the key turning points and note shifts in characters' attitudes.
- When reading on a phone or tablet, enlarge the font and use a dictionary tool for unfamiliar words so you don't give up midway.
- After reading, write a short review of about 200 words focused on whether the author's central premise holds up.
- If attending a book club, prepare three discussion questions about the consequences of technology in advance.
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
Wyman Guin (1915–1989) was an American science fiction writer known for his short stories and novellas, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines in the mid-20th century. He is not widely known among Chinese readers, and public information about him is limited; the library holds only one of his works, Volpla. Existing information indicates that his writing focused on short fiction and novellas published mainly in the genre magazines of the period, making him part of the mid-20th-century American science fiction magazine scene. Writers of this kind often relied on magazines as their main outlet, with themes centered on scientific ideas and future societies and a style that emphasized plot momentum and conceptual expression, exerting a certain influence on later science fiction.
