Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Collected Public Domain Works of Stanley G. Weinbaum by Stanley G. Weinbaum Collected Public Domain Works of Stanley G. Weinbaum by Stanley G. Weinbaum. The Lost Master - The Collected Works - Stanley G. Weinbaum(ePUB) Stanley Grauman Weinbaum (April 4, 1902 – December 14, 1935) This collection contains all of the published fiction of Stanley G. Weinbaum , with the exception of one poem. At least, all of the published fiction I could confirm existed. As usual, the bibliography was compiled from many different sources, and is as complete as I could make it. If you are aware of anything published, or even written, by Weinbaum that is not listed here, please let me know at [email protected] . Unless more of his work turns up, there likely won’t be an update to this collection (other than the one poem that isn’t here). Enjoy. Gorgon776. A Word From The Publisher. 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Available now from LibriVox and narrator Gregg Margarite comes the Collected Public Domain Works of Stanley G. Weinbaum . Gregg has a smoky voice and a terrific recording setup – this makes this collection a super-solid listen! Start with the first story A Martian Odyssey which is Weinbaum’s most famous tale. It’s a classic of alien human interaction. Isaac Asimov says of it and of Weinbaum: “With this single story [ A Martian Odyssey ], Weinbaum was instantly recognized as the world’s best living science fiction writer, and at once almost every writer in the field tried to imitate him.” It is also argued that this is the first story to satisfy Astounding editor John W. Campbell’s famous challenge: “Write me a creature who thinks as well as a man, or better than a man, but not like a man.” Collected Public Domain Works of Stanley G. Weinbaum By Stanley G. Weinbaum; Read by Gregg Margarite 6 Zipped MP3 Files or Podcast – Approx. 4 Hours 33 Minutes [UNABRIDGED] Publisher: LibriVox.org Published: January 13, 2009 Stanley G. Weinbaum is best known for his short story A Martian Odyssey which has been influencing Science Fiction since it was first published in 1934. Weinbaum is considered the first writer to contrive an alien who thought as well as a human, but not like a human. A Martian Odyssey and its sequel are presented here as well as other Weinbaum gems including three stories featuring the egomaniacal physicist Haskel van Manderpootz and his former student, playboy Dixon Wells. 1. A Martian Odyssey By Stanley G. Weinbaum; Read by Gregg Margarite 1 |MP3| – Approx. 58 Minutes [UNABRIDGED] Early in the twenty-first century, nearly twenty years after the invention of atomic power and ten years after the first lunar landing, the four-man crew of the Ares has landed on Mars in the Mare Cimmerium. A week after the landing, Dick Jarvis, the ship’s American chemist, sets out south in an auxiliary rocket to photograph the landscape. Eight hundred miles out, the engine on Jarvis’ rocket gives out, and he crash-lands into one of the Thyle regions. Rather than sit and wait for rescue, Jarvis decides to walk back north to the Ares. 2. Valley of Dreams By Stanley G. Weinbaum; Read by Gregg Margarite 1 |MP3| – Approx. 53 Minutes [UNABRIDGED] A sequel to A Martian Odyssey – Two weeks before the Ares is scheduled to leave Mars, Captain Harrison sends Dick Jarvis and French biologist “Frenchy” Leroy to retrieve the film Jarvis took before his auxiliary rocket crashed into the Thyle highlands the week before. Along the way, the Earthmen stop at the city of the cart creatures and the site of the pyramid building creature for Leroy to take some samples. After picking up the film canisters from the crashed rocket at Thyle II, the two men fly east to Thyle I to look for signs of the birdlike Martian, Tweel. 3. The Worlds Of If By Stanley G. Weinbaum; Read by Gregg Margarite 1 |MP3| – Approx. 35 Minutes [UNABRIDGED] 4. The Ideal By Stanley G. Weinbaum; Read by Gregg Margarite 1 |MP3| – Approx. 47 Minutes [UNABRIDGED] 5. The Point of View By Stanley G. Weinbaum; Read by Gregg Margarite 1 |MP3| – Approx. 38 Minutes [UNABRIDGED] 6. Pygmalion’s Spectacles By Stanley G. Weinbaum; Read by Gregg Margarite 1 |MP3| – Approx. 43 Minutes [UNABRIDGED] Collected Public Domain Works of Stanley G. Weinbaum by Stanley G. Weinbaum. Stanley Grauman Weinbaum was born on April 4, 1902, in Louisville, Kentucky. He died on December 14, 1935, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, of complications from throat cancer. During the years 1934-1936 the bulk of his work was published in Wonder Stories and Astounding, and his popularity as an author of SF was second, if only, to the legendary Edward E. "Doc" Smith. Weinbaum was of Jewish heritage, although he seems not to have been overtly religious or even much concerned with religion. His family connections were such that he was related to the Jessels and the Graumans; noted comedian, performer and toast-master Georgie Jessel was a cousin, as was Sid Grauman of Grauman's Chinese Theatre fame. Per Weinbaum's widow, the family was large and SGW didn't have much to do with the more famous members of the extended clan(s). Weinbaum attended Riverside High School in Milwaukee, and then the University of Wisconsin. He began his writing career with aspirations of being a poet. He enrolled at the University of Wisconsin in the Fall of 1920 as a chemistry major. He continued to write poetry, making the acquaintance of Horace Gregory and Maya Zatureska (later husband and wife, both celebrated poets). In 1921, he joined the staff of The Wisconsin Literary Journal, ( TWLJ ) began contributing poems, and switched his major to English. His poems appeared from April, 1921, through June, 1923. Gregory, in his autobiography " The House on Jefferson Street : A Cycle of Memories" (Holt Rinehart 1971), remembers Weinbaum: " . Another boy who was "odd man out" at the university was Stanley Weinbaum, a rosy- cheeked, curly-haired, rather plump freshman, who introduced himself to me in the smoking car of a Madison-bound train out of Milwaukee. His good humor was instantly contagious, and as he sat down next to me and lit a cigarette, I found myself smiling back at him, fascinated by almost everything he said. On a charming easy level, he combined the merits of young Joseph with those of David and his harps. " Stanley had a number of 'ruling passions'; these included playing his guitar as though it were a lute, alliteration in writing verse and chanting it, mathematics, Turkish coffee, the invention of scientific gadgets, and cigarettes. In his speech, he had great purity of diction, and a love of entertaining everyone around him - this last with an artless air that seldom failed to please." Weinbaum did not graduate from the University of Wisconsin. In early 1923, before his last poem was published in TWLJ , Weinbaum agreed to take a friend's place at a final exam; he was caught and expelled from the school. His widow, Margaret Weinbaum Kay, said that he did this as a lark, to help a friend, but mainly because he believed he could pass the exam without having attended the classes. Alain Everts ( Lunaria ) has said that the friend had bet Weinbaum that SGW couldn't pass the final, and that Weinbaum not only passed but he got good marks as well. Gregory notes another issue that may have contributed to (or been indicative of) Weinbaum's troubles with the university: " . His one hatred was military drill, and he exerted all the skills of his inventiveness against participating in it. " The offices of the R.O.T.C. were in a formidable Victorian Gothic red-brick Armory, where basketball games were played, setting-up exercises performed, and on the second floor, files of drill attendance stored. Unless one had a permanent medical excuse (which I possessed) non- attendance at drill meant expulsion from the university. It was the crime of crimes. Stanley had made up his mind to cut drill nine-tenths of his stay at the university. He carefully noted how the drill sergeant marked attendance on a card - he then assembled a kit for picking locks, and thereafter, at midnight, once a month, the locked doors of the Armory would give way to Stanley's craftsmanship; trembling, he would mount dark stairs to the files, and mark himself 'present' for each of his absences at drill. Both his courage and ingenuity were admirable - but the preparations for these excursions, and the excitements, fears, and sense of victory after them, were so tremendous that when he turned up at my room, at two in the morning, he would be in a state of near collapse. We would then rush out to an all-night lunch counter and order cups of the blackest and hottest coffee we could get. Within a few minutes, he would start singing verses he had composed in the manner of Omar, or of Swinburne, or his own latest version of a French villanelle. The more demanding a verse form was, the more it delighted him, and he played with it as though it were an intricate and prismed. " But the university and the town of Madison were not made for Stanley Weinbaum, not for a boy who would forget his classes from one week to the next, who would strum his guitar all day and made a habit of writing all night five or six days a week. It was, I think, near the end of his sophomore year that he left the campus not to return. His instructors were less displeased than baffled, for he belonged to a world that was other than theirs. He was like a cherub floating far above the campus. Distance and a thin rain of mist obscured him from view." After leaving school, from the mid-1920s through the early 1930s, he worked in a variety of fields, ranging from jobs in early radio, a stint as a sales rep for a large chemical firm, and, ultimately, to managing a movie house in the mid-west. According to his widow ( Pioneers of Wonder ), when the movie house that they were running was shut down due to the effects of the Depression (circa 1931-32?), they found that they had enough money for Stan to try writing for awhile full-time. Within the year he had sold " The Lady Dances" (a romance story) to King Features Syndicate, which serialized the novel in several newspapers nationwide. Weinbaum shopped a number of other romance stories around the pulp and slicks markets, without success. Sometime during this period, he began to try his hand at a genre that he begun his career with - SF. One of his earliest published stories was a short science fiction/imaginative piece in his high school 's publication, The Mercury , in 1917. Entitled " The Last Battle ," it envisioned the end of WWII in 2001. During this period, Weinbaum joined a local writer's group in Milwaukee. Calling themselves The Milwaukee Fictioneers, the group met regularly at the home of its members, where they would discuss story ideas with each other. According to Robert Bloch, a member, no one was allowed to bring written drafts or spouses to the meetings. The idea was not so much as to work on actual drafts but to kick ideas around with a group of like-minded writers. Along with Weinbaum and Bloch, members of the Fictioneers at that time included Lawrence Keating (a noted western writer of the day), Ralph Milne Farley (pseudonym of Roger Sherman Hoar, former Wisconsin state senator and mathematics professor), Raymond Palmer (SF writer and future editor of Amazing Stories and other magazines), Arthur Tofte, and others. Weinbaum submitted several SF stories to the market magazines, again meeting with rejection. Then, in January, 1934, one of the stories landed on the desk of Hugo Gernsback, then editor/publisher of Wonder Stories. Gernsback was a pioneer SF and Fantasy publisher and the grand old man of SF magazine publishing. The story that Gernsback found before him that day was, " A Martian Odyssey ." Gernsback liked the story, so much so that he wrote to Weinbaum personally and requested more stories in a similar vein; in fact, the editor's side-bar from the original publication of "Odyssey" in July 1934 issue of Wonder Stories states that the editor (Gernsback) had already asked Weinbaum for more of such tales. What caught Gernsback's eye, and the imagination of SF readers everywhere, was Weinbaum's handling of the aliens in the story, especially an ostrich-like being, part plant and part animal (on Weinbaum's Mars life had never differentiated into flora and fauna, remaining simply life) named Tweel. Weinbaum had discovered a way to present an alien who, as John W. Campbell would later demand of his writers (in homage to the impact of "Odyssey"), could think as well as a Man, or better, but not in the same way as a Man. Believing that an organism's thought processes had to be intimately related to the organism's biology, Weinbaum created a series of life forms that were totally and completely alien, in both mind and body, yet who were also entirely self-consistent and believable. To this, Weinbaum added more than a dash of warm humor (a quality sorely lacking in most writing of the period), the results being characters and stories which were fresh and memorable. Stanley G. Weinbaum. Stanley Grauman Weinbaum (April 4, 1902 – December 14, 1935) was an American science fiction author. His career in science fiction was short but influential. His first story, "A Martian Odyssey", was published to great (and enduring) acclaim in July 1934, but he would be dead from lung cancer within eighteen months. Contents. Weinbaum was born in Louisville, Kentucky and attended school in Milwaukee. He attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison in Madison, first as a chemical engineering major but later switching to English as his major, but contrary to common belief he did not graduate. On a bet, Weinbaum took an exam for a friend, and was later discovered; he left the university in 1923. He is best known for the groundbreaking science fiction short story, "A Martian Odyssey", which presented a sympathetic but decidedly non- human alien, Tweel. Even more remarkably, this was his first science fiction story (in 1933 he had sold a romantic novel, The Lady Dances , to King Features Syndicate, which serialized the story in its newspapers in early 1934). Isaac Asimov has described "A Martian Odyssey" as "a perfect Campbellian science fiction story, before John W. Campbell. Indeed, Tweel may be the first creature in science fiction to fulfil Campbell's dictum, 'write me a creature who thinks as well as a man, or better than a man, but not like a man'." Asimov went on to describe it as one of only three stories that changed the way all subsequent ones in the science fiction genre were written. It is the oldest short story (and one of the top vote- getters) selected by the Science Fiction Writers of America for inclusion in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929–1964 . Most of the work that was published in his lifetime appeared in either Astounding or Wonder Stories . However, several of Weinbaum's pieces first appeared in the early fanzine Fantasy Magazine (successor to Science Fiction Digest ) in the 1930s, including an "Auto-Biographical Sketch" in the June 1935 issue. Despite common belief, Weinbaum was not one of the contributors to the multi-authored Cosmos serial in Science Fiction Digest/Fantasy Magazine. He did contribute to the multi-author story "The Challenge From Beyond", published in the September 1935 Fantasy Magazine . At the time of his death, Weinbaum was writing a novel, Three Who Danced . In this novel, the Prince of Wales is unexpectedly present at a dance in an obscure American community, where he dances with three of the local girls, choosing each for a different reason. Each girl's life is changed (happily or tragically) as a result of the unexpected attention she receives. In 1993, his widow, Margaret Hawtof Kay (b. 1906 in Waco, Texas), donated his papers to the Temple University Library in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Included were several unpublished manuscripts, among them Three Who Danced , as well as other unpublished stories (mostly romance stories, but there were also a few other non- fiction and fiction writings, none of them science fiction). A film version of his short story "The Adaptive Ultimate" was released in 1957 under the title She Devil , starring Mari Blanchard, Jack Kelly, and Albert Dekker. The story was also dramatized on television; a Studio One titled "Kyra Zelas" (the name of the title character) aired on September 12, 1949. [ 1 ] A radio dramatization of "The Adaptive Ultimate" was done on the anthology show Escape in the 1950s, yet for some reason Weinbaum was not credited as the author. A crater on Mars is named in his honor, and, on 18 July 2008, he won [ 2 ] the Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award. Critical reception. Lester del Rey declared that "Weinbaum, more than any other writer, helped to take our field out of the doldrums of the early thirties and into the beginnings of modern science fiction." [ 3 ] Everett F. Bleiler, however, reported that although Weinbaum "was generally considered the most promising new s-f author of his day," his reputation is overstated. While "Weinbaum's style was more lively than that of his genre contemporaries, and he was imaginative in background details, . . . his work was ordinary pulp fiction, with routine plots, slapdash presentation, cardboard characterization, and much cliche of ideas. [ 4 ] Alexei and Cory Panshin concluded that "Time has swallowed what were once Weinbaum's particular virtues. What is left seems quaint and quirky." [ 5 ] Planetary series. All of Weinbaum's nine interplanetary stories were set in a consistent Solar System that was scientifically accurate by 1930s standards. The birdlike Martians of "A Martian Odyssey" and "Valley of Dreams", for instance, are mentioned in "Redemption Cairn", and The Red Peri and the Venusian trioptes of "Parasite Planet" and "The Lotus Eaters" are mentioned in "The Mad Moon". In Weinbaum's Solar System, in accordance with the then-current near-collision hypothesis, the gas giants radiate heat, enough to warm their satellites to Earthlike temperatures, allowing for Earthlike environments on Io, Europa, Titan, and even Uranus. Mars is also sufficiently Earthlike to allow humans to walk its surface (with training in thin-air chambers) unprotected. Van Manderpootz stories. Three short stories deal with Dixon Wells, a perpetually late playboy who runs afoul of the inventions of his friend and former instructor in "Newer Physics", Professor Haskel van Manderpootz, a supremely immodest genius who rates Einstein as his equal (or slight inferior). In "The Worlds of If", Wells tests an invention that reveals what might have been; in "The Ideal", the professor creates a device that can show the image of a person's ideal (in Wells' case, his perfect woman); the contrivance of "The Point of View" allows one to see the world from another's perspective. In all three, Wells finds and then loses the woman of his dreams. Bibliography. Novels. The Lady Dances (King-Features Syndicate 1933) - This story (published under the name of "Marge Stanley") was published as a newspaper serial in early 1934 and is now available as a print-on-demand title. The New Adam (Ziff-Davis 1939) The Black Flame (Fantasy Press 1948) The Black Flame (Complete Restored Edition) (Tachyon Publications 1997; ISBN 0-9648320-0-3) The Dark Other aka The Mad Brain (Fantasy Publishing Company 1950) Short stories. "A Martian Odyssey" in 7/34 Wonder "Valley of Dreams" in 11/34 Wonder "Flight on Titan" in 1/35 Astounding "Parasite Planet" in 2/35 Astounding "The Lotus Eaters" in 4/35 Astounding "Pygmalion's Spectacles" in 6/35 Wonder "The Worlds of If" in 8/35 Wonder "The Challenge From Beyond" in 9/35 Fantasy Magazine (Weinbaum wrote the opening 800+ words of this multi-author story.) "The Ideal" in 9/35 Wonder "The Planet of Doubt" in 10/35 Astounding "The Adaptive Ultimate" in 11/35 Astounding (as by John Jessel) "The Red Peri" in 11/35 Astounding "The Mad Moon" in 12/35 Astounding. Posthumous publications. "The Point of View" in 1/36 Wonder "Smothered Seas" in 1/36 Astounding (with Roger Sherman Hoar writing as Ralph Milne Farley) "Yellow Slaves" in 2/36 True Gang Life (with Roger Sherman Hoar writing as Ralph Milne Farley) "Redemption Cairn" in 3/36 Astounding "The Circle of Zero" in 8/36 Thrilling Wonder "Proteus Island" in 8/36 Astounding "Graph" in 9/36 Fantasy Magazine "The Brink of Infinity" in 12/36 Thrilling Wonder "Shifting Seas" in 4/37 Amazing (anticipates discussions of climate change due to changes in the Gulf Stream) "Revolution of 1950" 10- 11/38 Amazing (with Roger Sherman Hoar writing as Ralph Milne Farley) "Tidal Moon" in 12/38 Thrilling Wonder (with Helen Weinbaum, his sister) "The Black Flame" in 1/39 Startling "Dawn of Flame" in 6/39 Thrilling Wonder "Green Glow of Death" in 7/57 Crack Detective and Mystery Stories "The King's Watch", Posthumous Press, 1994, hardcover book, with Foreword and signed by Robert Bloch and tipped in photo of writers' group, The Milwaukee Fictioneers, to which Weinbaum and Bloch both belonged. (This story is a variant of "The Green Glow of Death" from 7/57 Crack Detective and Mystery Stories. ) Collections of stories and poetry. The Best of Stanley G. Weinbaum , Ballantine, 1974 Lunaria and Other Poems , The Strange Publishing Company 1988 The Black Heart , Leonaur Publishing, 2006 Dawn of Flame: The Stanley G. Weinbaum Memorial Volume , Conrad H. Ruppert, 1936 Interplanetary Odysseys , Leonaur Publishing, 2006 A Martian Odyssey and Other Science Fiction Tales , Hyperion Press, 1974 A Martian Odyssey and Others , Fantasy Press, 1949 A Martian Odyssey and Other Classics of Science Fiction , Lancer, 1962 Other Earths , Leonaur Publishing, 2006 The Red Peri , Fantasy Press, 1952 Strange Genius , Leonaur Publishing, 2006. References. ^ "Stanley G. Weinbaum". Internet Movie Database . http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0918093/ . Retrieved 2009-12-25 . ^ "Award". The Official Cordwainer Smith Website . http://www.cordwainer-smith.com/award.htm . Retrieved 2009-12-25 . ^ "Reading Room", If , June 1974, p.158 ^ Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years , Kent State University Press, 1998, p.479 ^ "Books", F&SF , December 1974, p.67. External links. at Project Gutenberg at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database at the Internet Movie Database at Manybooks.net at Forgotten Futures - all of his science fiction that is out of European copyright. by Bud Webster at Grantville GazetteStanley G. Weinbaum public domain audiobooks from LibriVox. "A Martian Odyssey" "Valley of Dreams" "Flight on Titan" "The Red Peri" "Tidal Moon" "Parasite Planet" "The Lotus Eaters" "The Planet of Doubt" "Redemption Cairn" "The Mad Moon" This entry is from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer) Wandering Through the Public Domain #13. By Colleen McMahon: Serendipity strikes again…I started this edition thinking that I didn’t have any feature topic that I wanted to write about, so I would instead just do a roundup of a bunch of authors whose birthdays I missed in April. First up was Stanley G. Weinbaum (1902-1935), who, it turns out, is an author who made an enormous impact on the science fiction field in a tragically short life. Reading about Weinbaum was so interesting that he immediately took over and became the feature topic! Stanley Weinbaum was born in 1902 and died of lung cancer just 33 years later, publishing only a handful of short stories (and one pseudonymous romance novel) in his lifetime. But his few stories formed an important basis for the full development of the science fiction genre. His very first science fiction tale, “A Martian Odyssey”, appeared in Wonder Stories in 1934, and set a new standard for stories that to this point had existed on the far (and often nonsensical) fringe of adventure fiction. The story tells of the encounter between astronauts exploring Mars and an intelligent alien. They gradually learn to communicate with “Tweel” who then accompanies the explorers and helps explain several other Martian life forms they discover. While “A Martian Odyssey” includes some typical-for-the-time encounters with dangerous aliens, complete with chases and hairsbreadth escapes, the real excitement of the plot revolves around the trial-and-error process of the humans and Martian figuring out how to communicate and understand the information Tweel is providing about the other species on Mars. Isaac Asimov saw “A Martian Odyssey” as a turning point for science fiction, one that changed the parameters of the field for the writers who came after. He called it. a perfect Campbellian science fiction story, before John W. Campbell. Indeed, Tweel may be the first creature in science fiction to fulfil Campbell’s dictum, ‘write me a creature who thinks as well as a man, or better than a man, but not like a man’. (from Asimov on Science Fiction , via Wikipedia ). Weinbaum’s stories immediately stood out as different. His characters felt real and acted realistically. There was romance, but the women did not exist only as objects to be captured and/or rescued. The science was rooted in the latest developments, and thoughtfully applied. And most of all, the aliens were not simply bug-eyed monsters existing to invade the planet or threaten humanity. They felt real in the same way the human characters did—and yet seemed anything but human in the way they thought and acted. In Weinbaum’s hands, a genre that was known for immaturity had grown up, but in a way that didn’t sacrifice any of the humor, fun, and adventure. You could read the stories for the sense of thrilling adventure alone, but those who wanted more found that as well. Weinbaum published thirteen stories in Wonder Stories and Astounding between July 1934 and December 1935, and several more appeared posthumously over the next few years. His impact on the genre was recognized by writers and fans alike, as “A Martian Odyssey” was overwhelmingly voted into the first Science Fiction Hall of Fame collection. He was recognized with the Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award in 2008. Project Gutenberg has seven works by Weinbaum, six short stories and a posthumously-published novel: All of these works are available on Librivox: The Dark Other Collected Public Domain Works of Stanley G. Weinbaum “Pygmalion’s Spectacles” in Short Science Fiction Collection 001 “The Worlds of If” in Short Science Fiction Collection 052. A few more authors who had birthdays back in April: Robert Bloch (1917-1994) has one novel on Project Gutenberg, This Crowded Earth (1958), which has also been recorded for Librivox. Henry Kuttner (1915-1958) is represented by three stories at Project Gutenberg: ( Space Science Fiction, May 1952) ( Weird Tales , October 1936) ( Fantastic Universe , May 1954) All have been recorded at Librivox, along with an additional novel, The Creature From Beyond Infinity . Howard Browne (1908-1999) has six stories on Project Gutenberg (though at least two are really novel-length, but were serialized in pulp magazines): ( Amazing Stories , November 1942) (three versions at Librivox) ( Amazing Stories , March 1954) ( Amazing Stories , October, November and December 1948) ( If: Worlds of Science Fiction , March 1952) ( Amazing Stories , April and May 1953) ( Amazing Stories , December 1942 and January 1943) Recent Librivox releases: Includes stories by Gordon R. Dickson, Frederic Brown, E.E. “Doc” Smith, Lester Del Rey, Ben Bova and more! Tarzan’s amazing ability to establish kinship with some of the most dangerous animals in the jungle serves him well in this exciting story of his adventures with the Golden Lion, Jad-bal-ja, when the great and lordly animal becomes his ally and protector. Tarzan learns from the High Priestess, La, of a country north of Opar which is held in dread by the Oparians. It is peopled by a strange race of gorilla-men with the intelligence of humans and the strength of gorillas. From time to time they attack Opar, carrying off prisoners for use as slaves in the jewel-studded Temple where they worship a great black-maned lion. Accompanied by the faithful Jad-bal-ja, Tarzan invades the dread country in an attempt to win freedom for the hundreds of people held in slavery there… The story of The Year When Stardust Fell is not a story of the distant future or of the remote past. It is not a story of a never-never land where fantastic happenings take place daily. It is a story of my town and yours, of people like you and me and the mayor in townhall, his sheriff on the corner, and the professor in the university—a story that happens no later than tomorrow. It is the portrayal of the unending conflict between ignorance and superstition on one hand, and knowledge and cultural enlightenment on the other as they come into conflict with each other during an unprecedented disaster brought on by the forces of nature. by Irving E. Cox Jr. (1915-2001) Share this: 7 thoughts on “ Wandering Through the Public Domain #13 ” There are some very inexpensive ebook editions on Amazon that contain nearly all of Weinbaum’s works. Pirated? It seems like nearly every work from that era is out of copyright – either because they were not submitted for copyright or the copyrights were not renewed. Stephen Fritter says There are some very inexpensive ebook editions on Amazon that contain nearly all of Weinbaum’s works. Pirated? It seems like nearly every work from that era is out of copyright – either because they were not submitted for copyright or the copyrights were not renewed. I think you’d be surprised just how much pirated material there is on Amazon and other digital book platforms. Assuming it’s out of copyright is just that — an assumption. @Cat: On some (but not all) Project Gutenberg texts, I’ve seen notices like the one here, following a note about the year of publication: “Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.” That of course doesn’t prove anything but it at least communicates something about what their reasoning was, and unfortunately that’s more than I’ve ever seen on an Internet Archive text. There are no doubt some pirated texts on Amazon, but a lot of the public domain republishers just scrape from Project Gutenberg and other sites that are known to carefully do their copyright homework. On all the Gutenberg text “front pages” (my links are always to that page), there is the tab that defaults to the front, with the different file format options for the work, and a second tab called “Bibrec”. There are works that available freely from PG that are still under copyright but you can be 99.9% confident that anything that shows “Public domain in USA” on the Bibrec tab IS public domain even if published after 1923. For me PG is the gold standard and the first place I look for public domain works. So if the Weinbaum books on Amazon contain the same stuff as the Project Gutenberg Weinbaum collection, it is all under public domain. Internet Archive is a treasure trove of material of all kinds, but copyright status is far more uncertain. It has more post-1923-but-likely-not-under- copyright material than PG but you can’t be SURE that it’s not under copyright without going through a tedious verification process that I don’t fully understand myself so I don’t mess with it. A lot of other stuff on IA is blatantly there despite copyrights and I’m sure they get a constant rain of takedown requests. When I started writing this I wanted to stick to stuff I was as certain as possible is in the public domain so when I share material from Internet Archive I usually limit my searches to material available from US libraries from 1923 and earlier, as the libraries generally do a good job of vetting. There are other collections like “The Magazine Rack”, the Pulp archive, and various audio collections on Internet Archive that are full of stuff whose copyright status is dubious, likely still in effect or certainly still in effect. I steer entirely clear of the “Community” and “Folkscanomy” collections in terms of making recommendations here (or finding things to record for Librivox) for that reason. I don’t want to knowingly participate in stealing from creators who still have rights to proceeds from their works. If you are curious about Project Gutenberg and their copyright rules and standards, check out the FAQ here: https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Copyright_FAQ and their detailed discussion of “Copyright How-To” here: https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Copyright_How-To. Internet Archive–I tend not to go often because their search feature is not the best unless you know precisely what you want or the keywords to put in. As far as the Community sections go; a friend uploaded assorted programs from events like street fairs and the 1980 Gay Olympics assuming that those weren’t copyrighted. Then he moved on to yearbooks from his home town. He noticed that early ones(50s & 60s) didn’t have copyrights but a recent one did. (He uploaded them anyway). Magazines are tricky-if the January 1977 copy of Chicago Gay News says “all rights reserved” but they’ve been out of business since 1979, is it OK to digitize and save to Internet Archive? (We decided yes since it’s not exactly the Saturday Evening Post).