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by retroindiereader
January 3rd, 2024, 8:07 am
Forum: Book Suggestions
Topic: Unrecorded PD books from the Ballantine and Newcastle Fantasy series
Replies: 14
Views: 7602

Re: Unrecorded PD books from the Ballantine and Newcastle Fantasy series

One more book from both of these series just entered the public domain here, and the last novels we'll get from either of them for awhile. The Ballantine series has Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001185911?type%5B%5D=title&lookfor%5B%5D=kai%20lung%20unrolls&ft...
by retroindiereader
December 5th, 2023, 9:50 am
Forum: Book Suggestions
Topic: Books from 1928 entering public domain Jan. 1 2024
Replies: 43
Views: 4225

Re: Books from 1928 entering public domain Jan. 1 2024

gweeks wrote: December 5th, 2023, 4:30 am The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
To go with this one the first Wimsey short story collection, Lord Peter Views the Body, will also be PD in January. Hathitrust has a scan of the 1928 edition, which will probably be made available then.
by retroindiereader
September 5th, 2023, 9:52 am
Forum: Book Suggestions
Topic: Unrecorded PD books from the Ballantine and Newcastle Fantasy series
Replies: 14
Views: 7602

Re: Unrecorded PD books from the Ballantine and Newcastle Fantasy series

Updated the link for When the Birds Fly South now that it's been posted to Project Gutenberg.
by retroindiereader
April 21st, 2023, 8:05 am
Forum: Book Suggestions
Topic: Unrecorded PD books from the Ballantine and Newcastle Fantasy series
Replies: 14
Views: 7602

Re: Unrecorded PD books from the Ballantine and Newcastle Fantasy series

Great suggestions. The Music from Behind the Moon and The Lineage of Lichfield were included with the final versions of Domnei and Cream of the Jest , the ones Ballantine reprinted. While those editions (published in 1928 and 1930 respectively) aren't PD yet, their components certainly are. It looks...
by retroindiereader
January 21st, 2023, 11:28 am
Forum: Completed Projects
Topic: COMPLETE [SOLO] The House Without A Key by Earl Derr Biggers-mas
Replies: 74
Views: 6202

Re: [SOLO] The House Without A Key by Earl Derr Biggers-mas

Yeah. I noticed that.

I do have plans for more solos.
by retroindiereader
January 21st, 2023, 9:26 am
Forum: Completed Projects
Topic: COMPLETE [SOLO] The House Without A Key by Earl Derr Biggers-mas
Replies: 74
Views: 6202

Re: [SOLO] The House Without A Key by Earl Derr Biggers-mas

Thanks! This was a lot of fun to record.
by retroindiereader
January 21st, 2023, 9:13 am
Forum: Completed Projects
Topic: COMPLETE [SOLO] The House Without A Key by Earl Derr Biggers-mas
Replies: 74
Views: 6202

Re: [SOLO] The House Without A Key by Earl Derr Biggers-mas

Good catch. That repeat has been removed, and the chapter reuploaded.
by retroindiereader
January 14th, 2023, 9:09 am
Forum: Book Suggestions
Topic: List of Early Science Fiction (PD and not yet in the catalog!)
Replies: 323
Views: 86989

Re: List of Early Science Fiction (PD and not yet in the catalog!)

The English translation of Metropolis by Thea von Harbou just became PD. https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0601891h.html
by retroindiereader
January 5th, 2023, 4:32 pm
Forum: Completed Projects
Topic: COMPLETE [SOLO] The House Without A Key by Earl Derr Biggers-mas
Replies: 74
Views: 6202

Re: [SOLO] The House Without A Key by Earl Derr Biggers-mas

Chapter 21 has been edited and reuploaded, and Chapter 22 is ready for PL.
by retroindiereader
January 1st, 2023, 9:16 am
Forum: Book Suggestions
Topic: Unrecorded PD books from the Ballantine and Newcastle Fantasy series
Replies: 14
Views: 7602

Re: Unrecorded PD books from the Ballantine and Newcastle Fantasy series

Now that it's 2023, Something About Eve and Gerfalcon are PD in the US.

Something About Eve (completed)

That should be all of the Cabell books from the Ballantine series in their original form. The final revisions for all of them (published 1927-1930) are a couple of years away.

Gerfalcon
by retroindiereader
December 17th, 2022, 12:31 pm
Forum: Book Suggestions
Topic: Unrecorded PD books from the Ballantine and Newcastle Fantasy series
Replies: 14
Views: 7602

Re: PD books from the Ballantine Fantasy series

Here's a few more from the Ballantine series that entered the public domain at the start of the year and have yet to be recorded: The Silver Stallion by James Branch Cabell Lud-in-the-mist by Hope Mirrlees (US PD only) (Completed) I've also looked into the unrecorded books from the Newcastle Forgott...
by retroindiereader
August 31st, 2022, 5:02 pm
Forum: Completed Projects
Topic: COMPLETE [SOLO] The House Without A Key by Earl Derr Biggers-mas
Replies: 74
Views: 6202

Re: [SOLO] The House Without A Key by Earl Derr Biggers-mas

This took much longer than expected, but Chapter 19 is ready for PL.