A Prize for Edie
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers new to English-language science fiction who want to start with short stories
- Readers interested in mid-twentieth-century American science fiction magazine work
- Teachers who need public-domain English texts for classroom or book-club use
- Readers who want to understand the text format of Project Gutenberg eBooks
Not a good fit for
- Science fiction readers who prefer long, complex worlds and multi-strand narratives
- Readers who need detailed research material on the author's life and writing background
- Readers sensitive to the narrative pacing and gender assumptions of early science fiction
Reading tips
- Read the short story through in one sitting to grasp the plot turns, then revisit the opening setup and ending echoes.
- Mark unfamiliar English expressions and period usage while reading, look them up together, and compile a vocabulary list.
- Read it alongside other public-domain science fiction short stories from the same era to observe shared themes and narrative conventions.
- If using it for a book club, design discussion questions around "reward mechanisms and individual choice."
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.
