[Next production] Harry Harrison - Planet of the Damned

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Robin Whittleton

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Dec 26, 2025, 11:51:42 AM12/26/25
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Another 60s scifi novel from Harry Harrison, and it was a Hugo nominee. I’m using this Gutenberg source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21873 . Archive.org has now cut access to a bunch of more modern books, but https://archive.org/details/planetofdamned0000harr_k6f7 is borrowable and has a copyright date of 1962 which matches the Gutenberg production. Repo is at https://github.com/robinwhittleton/harry-harrison_planet-of-the-damned.

-Robin

Tanja Biermann

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Dec 26, 2025, 12:00:51 PM12/26/25
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Thank you so much!

Alex Cabal

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Dec 26, 2025, 9:15:54 PM (14 days ago) 12/26/25
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OK! Lukas will manage with Vince reviewing.

On 12/26/25 10:51 AM, Robin Whittleton wrote:
> Another 60s scifi novel from Harry Harrison, and it was a Hugo nominee.
> I’m using this Gutenberg source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21873
> <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21873> . Archive.org has now cut
> access to a bunch of more modern books, but https://archive.org/details/
> planetofdamned0000harr_k6f7 <https://archive.org/details/
> planetofdamned0000harr_k6f7> is borrowable and has a copyright date of
> 1962 which matches the Gutenberg production. Repo is at https://
> github.com/robinwhittleton/harry-harrison_planet-of-the-damned <https://
> github.com/robinwhittleton/harry-harrison_planet-of-the-damned>.
>
> -Robin
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Robin Whittleton

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Dec 27, 2025, 2:55:19 PM (13 days ago) 12/27/25
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Going with Alfred H. Maurer’s Landscape as the cover art (thanks Emma). It’s easily seen as a satellite view of the titular desert planet. I’ve assigned it in the DB.

-Robin

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Alex Cabal

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Dec 27, 2025, 2:56:22 PM (13 days ago) 12/27/25
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OK!

On 12/27/25 1:54 PM, Robin Whittleton wrote:
> Going with Alfred H. Maurer’s /Landscape /as the cover art (thanks
> Emma). It’s easily seen as a satellite view of the titular desert
> planet. I’ve assigned it in the DB.
>
> -Robin
>
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Robin Whittleton

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Dec 29, 2025, 4:12:59 PM (11 days ago) 12/29/25
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OK Vince, this is ready for review (zero hurry of course). Production notes:

  • Most of the CSS is there to try to replicate a vision the protagonist has in chapter 3, which is in the source at https://archive.org/details/planetofdamned0000harr_k6f7/page/22/mode/1up (you’ll need to borrow the book). The two pieces of this I’ve had to ignore are the overlap between “DIS” and the right text block, and the alignment of “to kill” and “them” (I’ve just aligned the line starting “them” to the right).
  • There’s a large number of occurrences of “vaede” and “magter”. I’ve italicised the first of each, then used <span xml:lang="x-dis"> for the rest as per https://standardebooks.org/manual/1.8.5/single-page#8.2.9.3.
  • Apart from that it’s broadly simple: one dedication, one epigraph, one telegram, and one letter.

-Robin

Michael

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Dec 29, 2025, 4:26:07 PM (11 days ago) 12/29/25
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I apologize if this is a stupid question, but how is a novel from the 1960s already in the public domain?

Michael

Alex Cabal

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Dec 29, 2025, 4:27:40 PM (11 days ago) 12/29/25
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See rules 5 and 6: https://www.gutenberg.org/help/copyright.html

On 12/29/25 3:25 PM, Michael wrote:
> I apologize if this is a stupid question, but how is a novel from the
> 1960s already in the public domain?
>
> Michael
>
> On Mon, Dec 29, 2025 at 4:12 PM Robin Whittleton <ro...@reala.net
> <mailto:ro...@reala.net>> wrote:
>
> OK Vince, this <https://github.com/robinwhittleton/harry-
> harrison_planet-of-the-damned> is ready for review (zero hurry of
> course). Production notes:
>
> * Most of the CSS is there to try to replicate a vision the
> protagonist has in chapter 3, which is in the source at https://
> archive.org/details/planetofdamned0000harr_k6f7/page/22/mode/1up
> <https://archive.org/details/planetofdamned0000harr_k6f7/
> page/22/mode/1up> (you’ll need to borrow the book). The two
> pieces of this I’ve had to ignore are the overlap between “DIS”
> and the right text block, and the alignment of “to kill” and
> “them” (I’ve just aligned the line starting “them” to the right).
> * There’s a large number of occurrences of “vaede” and “magter”.
> I’ve italicised the first of each, then used <span xml:lang="x-
> dis"> for the rest as per https://standardebooks.org/
> manual/1.8.5/single-page#8.2.9.3 <https://standardebooks.org/
> manual/1.8.5/single-page#8.2.9.3>.
> * Apart from that it’s broadly simple: one dedication, one
> epigraph, one telegram, and one letter.
>
>
> -Robin
>
>> On 27 Dec 2025, at 20:56, 'Alex Cabal' via Standard Ebooks
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>> OK!
>>
>> On 12/27/25 1:54 PM, Robin Whittleton wrote:
>>> Going with Alfred H. Maurer’s /Landscape /as the cover art
>>> (thanks Emma). It’s easily seen as a satellite view of the
>>> titular desert planet. I’ve assigned it in the DB.
>>> -Robin
>>> thumbnail_f967effd70bc75c0511fdabf21f2c4cfe54add65_EBOK_portrait.jpeg
>>>> On 27 Dec 2025, at 03:15, 'Alex Cabal' via Standard Ebooks
>>>> <standar...@googlegroups.com
>>>> <mailto:standar...@googlegroups.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> OK! Lukas will manage with Vince reviewing.
>>>>
>>>> On 12/26/25 10:51 AM, Robin Whittleton wrote:
>>>>> Another 60s scifi novel from Harry Harrison, and it was a Hugo
>>>>> nominee. I’m using this Gutenberg source: https://
>>>>> www.gutenberg.org/ <https://www.gutenberg.org/> ebooks/21873
>>>>> <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21873 <https://
>>>>> www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21873>> . Archive.org has now cut
>>>>> access to a bunch of more modern books, but https://
>>>>> archive.org/details/ <https://archive.org/details/>
>>>>> planetofdamned0000harr_k6f7 <https:// archive.org/details/
>>>>> <http://archive.org/details/> planetofdamned0000harr_k6f7> is
>>>>> borrowable and has a copyright date of 1962 which matches the
>>>>> Gutenberg production. Repo is at https:// github.com/
>>>>> robinwhittleton/harry-harrison_planet- <http://github.com/
>>>>> robinwhittleton/harry-harrison_planet-> of-the-damned <https://
>>>>> github.com/robinwhittleton/harry- <http://github.com/
>>>>> robinwhittleton/harry-> harrison_planet-of-the-damned>.
>>>>> -Robin
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Vince

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Dec 31, 2025, 3:58:09 AM (9 days ago) 12/31/25
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I tried to start this, but IA is down right now where I am. I’ll get to it when it comes back up.

Vince

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The usual excellent job, Robin, just a few nits/questions.

Vince

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Jan 3, 2026, 10:47:31 AM (6 days ago) Jan 3
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Alex, this is ready for you.

Alex Cabal

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Jan 5, 2026, 3:05:14 PM (4 days ago) Jan 5
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Looks good Robin, I've released it! Thanks!

On 1/3/26 9:47 AM, Vince wrote:
> Alex, this is ready for you.
>
>> On Jan 2, 2026, at 4:47 PM, Vince <vr_se...@letterboxes.org> wrote:
>>
>> The usual excellent job, Robin, just a few nits/questions.
>>
>>> On Dec 31, 2025, at 3:57 PM, Vince <vr_se...@letterboxes.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> I tried to start this, but IA is down right now where I am. I’ll get
>>> to it when it comes back up.
>>>
>>>> On Dec 30, 2025, at 4:12 AM, Robin Whittleton <ro...@reala.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> OK Vince, this <https://github.com/robinwhittleton/harry-
>>>> harrison_planet-of-the-damned> is ready for review (zero hurry of
>>>> course). Production notes:
>>>>
>>>> * Most of the CSS is there to try to replicate a vision the
>>>> protagonist has in chapter 3, which is in the source at https://
>>>> archive.org/details/planetofdamned0000harr_k6f7/page/22/mode/1up
>>>> <https://archive.org/details/planetofdamned0000harr_k6f7/
>>>> page/22/mode/1up> (you’ll need to borrow the book). The two
>>>> pieces of this I’ve had to ignore are the overlap between “DIS”
>>>> and the right text block, and the alignment of “to kill” and
>>>> “them” (I’ve just aligned the line starting “them” to the right).
>>>> * There’s a large number of occurrences of “vaede” and “magter”.
>>>> I’ve italicised the first of each, then used <span xml:lang="x-
>>>> dis"> for the rest as per https://standardebooks.org/
>>>> manual/1.8.5/single-page#8.2.9.3 <https://standardebooks.org/
>>>> manual/1.8.5/single-page#8.2.9.3>.
>>>> * Apart from that it’s broadly simple: one dedication, one
>>>> epigraph, one telegram, and one letter.
>
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