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Escape Pod => Science Fiction Discussion => Topic started by: sjg1978 on September 30, 2008, 06:09:07 PM

Title: Astounding Stories of Super Science
Post by: sjg1978 on September 30, 2008, 06:09:07 PM
Does anyone remember the pulp magazine Astounding Stories of Super Science?  I was browsing on the Internet Archive, and found two complete years and parts of two others:
http://www.archive.org/details/Astounding_Stories_of_Super_Science_1930
http://www.archive.org/details/Astounding_Stories_of_Super_Science_1931
http://www.archive.org/details/Astounding_Stories_of_Super_Science_1932 (incomplete)
http://www.archive.org/details/Astounding_Stories_of_Super_Science_1933 (incomplete)
They seem to be public domain due to the fact that their copyrights weren't renewed in 1958-1961. (That's a whole other legal discussion.)

Unfortunately, it's just page scans, but I hope someone else will help to get them typed and posted.  Anyone interested?

I've done two stories so far: The Dark Side Of Antri (http://sjg1978.web.officelive.com/Documents/TheDarkSideOfAntri.html) and The Sunken Empire (http://sjg1978.web.officelive.com/Documents/TheSunkenEmpire.html), both from January 1931.

Now what would be really cool is if the rest of the series could be found also, but I don't know where to find that.
Title: Re: Astounding Stories of Super Science
Post by: tpi on October 01, 2008, 09:33:20 AM
They are going through proofreading and will be found from project Gutenberg sooner or later (The are listed on Distributed Proofreades site) - so no need to star typing them.
Title: Re: Astounding Stories of Super Science
Post by: sjg1978 on October 01, 2008, 01:23:38 PM
I didn't know DP was working on them.  But PGDP does seem to have slowed down a lot since I was last involved a couple of years ago. For simple, short fiction, I can probably do it faster myself than wait in the queue for their 1,000 person crew.
Title: Re: Astounding Stories of Super Science
Post by: stePH on October 01, 2008, 01:24:38 PM
I didn't know DP was working on them.  But PGDP does seem to have slowed down a lot since I was last involved a couple of years ago. For simple, short fiction, I can probably do it faster myself than wait in the queue for their 1,000 person crew.

Maybe you can even bounce your work over to them and give them a leg up.