Astounding Stories
gr...@durendal.org
up at the internet Archive.
http://www.archive.org/details/Astounding_Stories_of_Super_Science_1930
It's going through Distributed Proofing to go into Project Gutenberg.
The first year and eight months were published in the US without a
copyright notice.
Greg Weeks
Dorothy J Heydt
Oh, nice.
But I'm going to have to figure out how to make it cut the page
size down to something that will fit on my screen.
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djh...@kithrup.com
Dan Goodman
The Gutenberg version should be rather easier to handle.
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<gr...@durendal.org> wrote in message
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The link seems not to work. "...does not match any of
the items in the Archive."
Jan 1930! I wasn't even an embryo until later that
year.
Titeotwawki -- mha [rasff 2008 Aug 25]
gr...@durendal.org
> > <g...@durendal.org> wrote:
> > > In case anyone is interested, the first year of Astounding Stories
> > > is up at the internet Archive.
>
> http://www.archive.org/details/Astounding_Stories_of_Super_Science_1930
>
>
>
> > > It's going through Distributed Proofing to go into Project
> > > Gutenberg. The first year and eight months were published in the
> > > US without a copyright notice.
>
> > Oh, nice.
>
> > But I'm going to have to figure out how to make it cut the page
> > size down to something that will fit on my screen.
>
> The Gutenberg version should be rather easier to handle.
Gutenberg will have straight text and html with pictures. It's
probably still a couple of months off for January and more than a year
for December.
Greg Weeks
Dan Goodman
>
> <gr...@durendal.org> wrote in message
> news:61030e83-3c88-4b2f...@f36g2000hsa.googlegroups.com
> ...
> > In case anyone is interested, the first year of Astounding Stories
> > is up at the internet Archive.
> >
> >
http://www.archive.org/details/Astounding_Stories_of_Super_Science_1930
> >
> > It's going through Distributed Proofing to go into Project
> > Gutenberg. The first year and eight months were published in the
> > US without a copyright notice.
> >
> > Greg Weeks
>
> The link seems not to work. "...does not match any of
> the items in the Archive."
Works for me.
> Jan 1930! I wasn't even an embryo until later that
> year.
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Steven L.
> In case anyone is interested, the first year of Astounding Stories is
> up at the internet Archive.
>
> http://www.archive.org/details/Astounding_Stories_of_Super_Science_1930
I just took a look, thanks.
The advertisements are the most interesting part.
Evidently the scams haven't changed much in 80 years: We have a great
home-based business opportunity just for you. Just send us $25 and
we'll get you started....
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Email: sdli...@earthlinkNOSPAM.net
Remove the NOSPAM before replying to me.
pmfan57
> g...@durendal.org wrote:
> > In case anyone is interested, the first year of Astounding Stories is
> > up at the internet Archive.
>
> >http://www.archive.org/details/Astounding_Stories_of_Super_Science_1930
>
> I just took a look, thanks.
> The advertisements are the most interesting part.
>
> Evidently the scams haven't changed much in 80 years: We have a great
> home-based business opportunity just for you. Just send us $25 and
> we'll get you started....
>
> --
> Steven L.
> Remove the NOSPAM before replying to me.
Are there ads for radium suppositories, with healthful electric
radiation.
Dorothy J Heydt
Steven L. <sdli...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>gr...@durendal.org wrote:
>> In case anyone is interested, the first year of Astounding Stories is
>> up at the internet Archive.
>>
>> http://www.archive.org/details/Astounding_Stories_of_Super_Science_1930
>
>I just took a look, thanks.
>The advertisements are the most interesting part.
>
>Evidently the scams haven't changed much in 80 years: We have a great
>home-based business opportunity just for you. Just send us $25 and
>we'll get you started....
And $25 was a heck of a lot of money in 1930. You could feed a
family for a quarter, if you had a quarter.
gr...@durendal.org
>
> Are there ads for radium suppositories, with healthful electric
> radiation.
This page:
http://ia311203.us.archive.org/2/items/Astounding_Stories_of_Super_Science_1930/asf193001142.png
has one of the radium ads. A pad, not suppositories.
Greg Weeks
Jon Schild
Judging from the January Table of Contents, the stories must be bloody
awful. No wonder parents back then tried to keep their kids from reading
this stuff.
--
The problem is not that the world is full of fools, it's that lightning
isn't being distributed correctly.
-- Mark Twain
Quadibloc
> The link seems not to work. "...does not match any of
> the items in the Archive."
Try this link:
http://ia311203.us.archive.org/2/items/Astounding_Stories_of_Super_Science_1930/
That should bypass anything not working correctly for you.
John Savard
Quadibloc
> But I'm going to have to figure out how to make it cut the page
> size down to something that will fit on my screen.
My older browser tries to run QuickTime to display .png files on their
own (even though it displays them properly within pages), and my usual
paint program doesn't handle them, but having alternative paint
programs to use, I can just convert them to JPEGs and resample them
down.
Multimedia Xplorer 2.0 doesn't handle .png, but it cuts image size
down nicely, so if you can find something else to convert formats...
often, British computer magazines will have free versions of paint
programs and other useful items in CD-ROMs on their covers.
John Savard
Quadibloc
> Judging from the January Table of Contents, the stories must be bloody
> awful. No wonder parents back then tried to keep their kids from reading
> this stuff.
Sturgeon's Law, my dear sir. Sturgeon's Law.
John Savard
Martha Adams
news:9ebb1b67-b175-434c...@w1g2000prk.googlegroups.com...
Try this link:
http://ia311203.us.archive.org/2/items/Astounding_Stories_of_Super_Science_1930/
John Savard
=====================================
Hi, John. All I had to do was click not on the large right
hand display, but on the small left hand display, and I got
the pages. Now I must tinker out how to get them displayed
so I can read them.
I'd really like to get ASF over the years 1944 to 1952, in
readable storable form. I have some copies over that time
range and I am thinking of photographing them, one page at
a time (digital). I *especially* liked Cartier's art work.
Titeotwawki -- mha [rasff 2008 Aug 26]
Cece
> On Aug 25, 7:53 pm, "Martha Adams" <mh...@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> > The link seems not to work. "...does not match any of
> > the items in the Archive."
>
> Try this link:
>
>
> That should bypass anything not working correctly for you.
>
> John Savard
No, that just provides different garbage! I see no stories, just
lists of meaningless lines of computer junk.
Cece
Harry Bates was editor. It may improve slightly when F. Orlin
Tremaine takes over. But it doesn't get really good until John W.
Campbell hits his stride.
Mark Bestley
I see each line as a file name. I think you need to click on each one to
read the page. The pages are .png files which are scans of the actual
pages so you are seeing pictures of the magazine not text as a web page
Presumable after it has got into Project Gutenburg there will be a text
form
--
Mark
Cece
> "Quadibloc" <jsav...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote in message
>
> news:9ebb1b67-b175-434c...@w1g2000prk.googlegroups.com...
> On Aug 25, 7:53 pm, "Martha Adams" <mh...@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> > The link seems not to work. "...does not match any of
> > the items in the Archive."
>
> Try this link:
>
>
> That should bypass anything not working correctly for you.
>
> John Savard
>
> =====================================
>
> Hi, John. All I had to do was click not on the large right
> hand display, but on the small left hand display, and I got
> the pages. Now I must tinker out how to get them displayed
> so I can read them.
>
> I'd really like to get ASF over the years 1944 to 1952, in
> readable storable form. I have some copies over that time
> range and I am thinking of photographing them, one page at
> a time (digital). I *especially* liked Cartier's art work.
>
> Titeotwawki -- mha [rasff 2008 Aug 26]
1944 was pretty poor; too many authors were busy elsewhere.
"Deadline" is pathetic. Even Eric Frank Russell was writing poorly
that year -- and getting it published because there was nothing better
available! (Both of those comments apply to the same issue, March.
June is a little better; Fredric Brown's original of the ST:TOS
episode "Arena.") Dec. 1945 through 1952 is interesting, though --
especially when you read Brass Tacks. Note the letter from Sturgeon
in Dec. '45, which had Editorial: "Atoms Won't do Everything" and
article: "The Making of the Bomb." Late in '48, you'll see the letter
that spawned the Nov. '49 issue... And in late '46 or early '47,
there's a complaint about all the post-apocalyptic stories -- and
Campbell's response!
Yes, Cartier could draw! Extremely well.
Quadibloc
> Cece <ceceliaarmstr...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > On Aug 26, 10:15 am, Quadibloc <jsav...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
> > > On Aug 25, 7:53 pm, "Martha Adams" <mh...@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> > > > The link seems not to work. "...does not match any of
> > > > the items in the Archive."
>
> > > Try this link:
>
> > >http://ia311203.us.archive.org/2/items/Astounding_Stories_of_Super_Sc...
>
> > > That should bypass anything not working correctly for you.
>
> > lists of meaningless lines of computer junk.
>
> I see each line as a file name. I think you need to click on each one to
> read the page. The pages are .png files which are scans of the actual
> pages so you are seeing pictures of the magazine not text as a web page
Yes, that is correct. That page shows a list of file names of image
files, similar in format to what you would see in visiting an FTP
site.
John Savard
Steven L.
>
> gr...@durendal.org wrote:
>> In case anyone is interested, the first year of Astounding Stories is
>> up at the internet Archive.
>>
>> http://www.archive.org/details/Astounding_Stories_of_Super_Science_1930
>>
>> It's going through Distributed Proofing to go into Project Gutenberg.
>> The first year and eight months were published in the US without a
>> copyright notice.
>>
>> Greg Weeks
>
> Judging from the January Table of Contents, the stories must be bloody
> awful. No wonder parents back then tried to keep their kids from reading
> this stuff.
Yep, back then the stories were all about fighting various monsters in
outer space, or fighting various monsters from outer space. I got a
real kick out of the one involving monsters from Beyond The Heaviside Layer.
Today's comic books have more sophisticated plots.
--
Steven L.
Email: sdli...@earthlinkNOSPAM.net
Mark_R...@hotmail.com
> <g...@durendal.org> wrote in message
Wow. That makes you older than chocolate chip cookies. Do you
remember eating your first?
Thomas Lindgren
Mark_R...@hotmail.com writes:
> Wow. That makes you older than chocolate chip cookies. Do you
> remember eating your first?
One of these days I'll start dwelling on the fact that I'm older than
the internet, the personal computer, and, easy enough but not to be
forgotten, the modern cell phone. And the moon lander.
Best,
Thomas
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monetarism + human capital + property rights + public choice
Cece
Heck, I remember when jet fighters were pretty new...I'm just a tad
younger than the very first.
Walter Bushell
Thomas Lindgren <***********@*****.***> wrote:
> Mark_R...@hotmail.com writes:
>
> > Wow. That makes you older than chocolate chip cookies. Do you
> > remember eating your first?
>
> One of these days I'll start dwelling on the fact that I'm older than
> the internet, the personal computer, and, easy enough but not to be
> forgotten, the modern cell phone. And the moon lander.
>
> Best,
> Thomas
I used a slide rule in College Physics. There were *no* pocket
calculators, and the desktop units went clugka clugka clunka. On my
first post college job we had an electronic desktop calculator a Wang
with transcendental functions *gasp*.
Our college computer was an IBM 1620, acquired in my Junior year.
Did I tell you about my summer job as straw boss on the pyramids?
gr...@durendal.org
> In case anyone is interested, the first year of Astounding Stories is
> up at the internet Archive.
>
> http://www.archive.org/details/Astounding_Stories_of_Super_Science_1930
1931 is up:
http://www.archive.org/details/Astounding_Stories_of_Super_Science_1931
January and March of 1933 is up:
http://www.archive.org/details/Astounding_Stories_of_Super_Science_1933
I've fixed some missing pages in 1930 as well.
Greg Weeks