Ted Nolan wrote:
> Jason Evans wrote:
>> Jack Bohn wrote:
>>>
>>> For anyone who doesn't know
gutenberg.org is more careful to stay on the
>>> legal side.
>>> (There's even an Australian Gutenberg site because they allow more stuff
>>> into the public domain than most.)
>>
>>I love Project Gutenberg. I've even donated to them a couple of time and
>>I have my own backup of all of their epub files (at least from 2 years
>>ago). The problem is that you're not going to find much science fiction
>>that's in the public domain. Old magazines like the ones that I posted
>>are a "grey" area. Someday they may get taken down because the individual
>>stories are under copyright, but for now they can be enjoyed freely.
>
> This is not my experience. There is tons of old SF on PG. The problem
> is finding it.
>
> This seems to be some attempt:
>
>
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/68
>
> but it's clunky when you would really just like to pull all authors & titles.
> (And of course it depends on someone having done the categorization).
> Perhaps there is some way to pull all titles from ISFDB that have gutenberg
> links.
>
>>
>>That's also why I mentioned the Baen free library. These are clearly
>>copyrighted materials but they are allowed to be shared freely without
>>being tied to DRM.
>
> Legal or not (it's in France apparently), this site seems to have
> virtually all of van Vogt's work:
>
>
http://www.prosperosisle.org/spip.php?rubrique31
>
> including my favorite:
>
>
http://www.prosperosisle.org/spip.php?article220
>
> it's all oddly organized, but somewhere in there is a collection of all
> VVs short fiction which I can't find now though the individual stories
> are easy enough to locate.
The
www.prosperosisle.org website was frequented by me back in the day
when your RI threads included a link to it.
In regards to organized short fiction, let me tell you (again?) about my
_Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams_ web page. It cross references a
(relatively) recent PKD TV series of adaptations to their original
shorts:
A 2017 TV series entitled Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams
recently came to my attention. It's a collection, an adaptation
of ten, less than novel length, stories.
An intriguing aspect of the TV series is the age of the
stories selected for adaptation. PKD wrote all of the stories
during the 1950s, close to the start of his career as an author.
As such, all ten stories are apparently now in the public domain.
(excerpt, more at the link below)
https://crcomp.net/arts/electricdreams/
So, perhaps those PKD shorts aren't in the public domain after all.
Regardless, all the links to
archive.org content works so far this
morning. Although some days
archive.org's _The Philip K Dick Reader_
displays a message about how you need to wait until later to read it
because it's already maxed out with too many readers.
Further investigation leaves me with the impression one (or possibly
more) copy(ies) were donated with a "library" proviso. Namely, only one
online reader at a time can access _The Philip K Dick Reader_.
Danke,
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