My Fair Planet
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Science fiction short-story fans who want a quick, light taste of Golden Age style
- English learners looking for short, clearly plotted original reading material
- Science fiction scholars interested in mid-twentieth-century American short-story themes
- Commuters or readers with fragmented time, suited to a story read in one sitting
Not a good fit for
- Readers who prefer hard science fiction with technical detail and grand settings; this is more of a light satire
- Readers expecting the deep character arcs of a novel; the short form has limited space
- Readers sensitive to mid-twentieth-century views on gender and civilization should note the period context
Reading tips
- Read through once to grasp the twist, then revisit the opening to see how foreshadowing and narrative perspective were arranged.
- After reading, briefly note the work's satire of alien civilizations and human-centered thinking as thematic notes.
- Read alongside contemporary science fiction short stories to observe common magazine science fiction conventions of the Golden Age.
- English learners can excerpt dialogue and descriptive sentences to imitate the light, humorous style.
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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
Evelyn E. Smith (1922–2000) was an American writer of science fiction and mystery fiction, born in New York, who also worked as a crossword puzzle constructor. In the 1950s she published numerous short science fiction stories in magazines such as Galaxy Science Fiction and Fantastic Universe. Her representative works include "The Blue Tower," "The Venus Trap" and "The Doorway," along with "The Most Sentimental Man," "Collector's Item," "The Princess and the Physicist" and "The Man Outside"; seventeen of her works are held in this collection. Her short stories often treat alien contact, gender relations and consumer society with wit and humour, showing neat plotting and a satirical edge. Under the pen name Delphine C. Lyons she also wrote Gothic romances and the "Miss Melville" mystery series. Public information about her life is limited, and discussion of her work focuses mainly on these magazine stories and her genre fiction.
