There are various public domain trapdoors for specific cases in the US
only. Careful research is required and we basically rely exclusively on
PG to determine that. See
https://www.gutenberg.org/help/copyright.html
On 9/30/25 1:07 PM, Ray Ryan wrote:
> I'm curious, how can stories with such recent publication dates be in
> the US public domain?
>
> On Tuesday, September 30, 2025 at 10:56:58 AM UTC-7 robin wrote:
>
> OK, this is basically ready for you to copy over to the SE account.
>
> Obviously it’s mostly red as there’s only the three stories so far
> with known-good PD status. Where stories have been anthologised into
> a mystery collection or when they were originally published in
> “Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine” I’ve given them a tag of Mystery.
> For the stories included in Azazel <
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
> Azazel_(Asimov)> I’ve listed them as Fantasy; I’ve not read them,
> but the first paragraph on that page refers to them as such. Then
> there’s the “Asimov’s Mysteries” omnibus that is described as both
> sci-fi and mystery so I’ve marked them down as both. Apart from that
> I guess the assumption is that everything else is sci-fi? I’ve left
> it untagged for the time being.
>
> So I think we definitely want a “Short Science Fiction” compilation
> to start. Then I’d guess three more: ”Black Widowers Stories”,
> “Azazel Stories” and “Short Mysteries”? It’s a bit up in the air as
> it’s unlikely that we’ll be working on it in the next few decades,
> but I guess you need to start somewhere!
>
> -Robin
>
>> On 29 Sep 2025, at 19:15, Robin Whittleton <
ro...@reala.net> wrote:
>>
>> Might as well include everything from the Wiki page, then we’ve
>> got it. Starting that work at
https://docs.google.com/
>> spreadsheets/d/1oge21ZYs1xEg9ummZmrDYepSCzBR4d3XuaSawoDyH3w/edit?
>> usp=sharing <
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/
>> d/1oge21ZYs1xEg9ummZmrDYepSCzBR4d3XuaSawoDyH3w/edit?usp=sharing>
>>
>> -Robin
>>
>>> On 28 Sep 2025, at 22:51, Alex Cabal <
al...@standardebooks.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Sure, that would work.
>>>
>>> He also wrote non sci-fi shorts, and it looks like they were
>>> principally mysteries. So the question is, do we create a
>>> separate "sci fi stories" omnibus? The answer depends on whether
>>> we need to create a "mystery stories" omnibus, or if he also
>>> wrote fiction outside of those two genres.
>>>
>>> So, that will require a spreadsheet, at least of the mystery
>>> stories. Ideally we would also include the sci fi stories, but
>>> that would be a lot of work considering outside of PG's research,
>>> nothing is going to enter PD for at least another decade. But it
>>> would be extremely useful work for us in the long run.
>>>
>>>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
>>> Isaac_Asimov_short_stories_bibliography <https://
>>>
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov_short_stories_bibliography>
>>> suggests there are about 385 short stories which I think includes
>>> both sci fi and mystery.
>>>
>>> On 9/28/25 9:11 AM, Robin Whittleton wrote:
>>>> PG now has three Asimov scifi shorts up, which feels like
>>>> potentially enough to start a collection?
>>>> * The Magnificent Possession <
https://www.gutenberg.org/
>>>> <
https://www.gutenberg.org/>
>>>> ebooks/76871> (1940)
>>>> * Youth <
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31547 <https://
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