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

[flavo5000]

I'm not sure what you want to do with this post, but I thought I'd mention that I went through and cataloged all the currently PD novels and novellas that were serialized in Weird Tales:
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=91246

Quite a few of these are sci-fi from the likes of Edmund Hamilton and may be of interest to people following this thread or using it as a reference.

[sixthfinger]

Tumithak of the Corridors, by Charles R. Tanner
Originally published in Amazing Stories 1932-January

I remember this as public domain. Published in 1932 and the copyright was not renewed (though it's been awhile since I checked).

etexts and scans here
http://www.charlesrtanner.com/published/1932/01/01/tumithak-of-the-corridors.html
http://tumithak.com/TumithakOfTheCorridors.htm
https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v06n10_1932-01/page/n35
https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v40n10_1967-02/page/n11
https://archive.org/details/FantasticV27N07197910/page/n71

ISFDB entry
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?44016

[annise]

We tend to only accept Project Gutenberg's word for these stories which depend on copyright not being renewed. It is much easier to show that something has happened than to prove it hasn't.

Anne

[ChuckW]

I'm not sure what you want to do with this post, but I thought I'd mention that I went through and cataloged all the currently PD novels and novellas that were serialized in Weird Tales:
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=91246

Quite a few of these are sci-fi from the likes of Edmund Hamilton and may be of interest to people following this thread or using it as a reference.

Adding this to the list!

[ChuckW]

More books being added to the list:

The War-God Walks Again by F. Britten Austin
- https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008995049

To Venus in Five Seconds by Fred Jane
- https://archive.org/details/ToVenusInFiveSeconds

Voice of the Murderer by Goodwin Walsh
- https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/101665142

Man's World by Charlotte Haldane
- https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001474398

Doctor Transit by Isidor Schneider
- https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001831930

[kristakz]

In perusing this list, I dug into the Amazing Stories, which lead me to Science and Invention. There is a whole series of short stories about "Dr. Hackensaw's Secrets" by Clement Fezandie. I would like to BC this as a collection, but I need some help. All of the magazines are available, but some (containing the first 4 stories) are on Hathia Trust and not visible to anyone outside the US. What I would like is someone there to help me out by pulling the specific links* to the first 4 (maybe 5?) Hackensaw books from this https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112074258994, so I can post them in the project thread. And then I'll note that those 4 must be read by a US resident (they are PD in the US and Canada, but Fernandie died in 1959, so not PD in death+70 countries, and HathiTrust doesn't distinguish Canada vs Europe for visibility).

Is there someone willing to give me a hand with those, so I can set this up? There are about 40 stories in total, so I'd love to have them all in one collection http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?9698

* Or, alternatively, pull a PDF of the file (if that's allowed)

[ChuckW]

In perusing this list, I dug into the Amazing Stories, which lead me to Science and Invention. There is a whole series of short stories about "Dr. Hackensaw's Secrets" by Clement Fezandie. I would like to BC this as a collection, but I need some help. All of the magazines are available, but some (containing the first 4 stories) are on Hathia Trust and not visible to anyone outside the US. What I would like is someone there to help me out by pulling the specific links* to the first 4 (maybe 5?) Hackensaw books from this https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112074258994, so I can post them in the project thread. And then I'll note that those 4 must be read by a US resident (they are PD in the US and Canada, but Fernandie died in 1959, so not PD in death+70 countries, and HathiTrust doesn't distinguish Canada vs Europe for visibility).

Is there someone willing to give me a hand with those, so I can set this up? There are about 40 stories in total, so I'd love to have them all in one collection http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?9698

* Or, alternatively, pull a PDF of the file (if that's allowed)

I have university access to HathiTrust and can download whole books/periodicals/whatever from there without a problem. Send me a link to the specific issues and I'll snatch them up for you.

Edit: Wait, is it just the link you included in your initial post? No problem then. Check your DMs in a few minutes.

[kristakz]

Thanks for your help, Chuck.

For others who might be interested in the various short stories in the "Science and Invention" magazine, here's a list of all the online locations for them.

https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=scienceinvention

[TriciaG]

From Twitter:

A black pain-
tortured face
hovering in mid-air


I felt
his pulse


Three paces off
a man's face
glowered at us


THE
LIVING
MUMMY

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58944

THIS NEEDS TO BE A @librivox AUDIOBOOK!

PD everywhere (author died 1944)

[ChuckW]

From Twitter:

A black pain-
tortured face
hovering in mid-air


I felt
his pulse


Three paces off
a man's face
glowered at us


THE
LIVING
MUMMY

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58944

THIS NEEDS TO BE A @librivox AUDIOBOOK!

PD everywhere (author died 1944)

Now I wish I had the time to launch this one myself!

I’ll add it to the list. Hopefully someone takes it soon.

[flavo5000]

From Twitter:

A black pain-
tortured face
hovering in mid-air


I felt
his pulse


Three paces off
a man's face
glowered at us


THE
LIVING
MUMMY

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58944

THIS NEEDS TO BE A @librivox AUDIOBOOK!

PD everywhere (author died 1944)

Now I wish I had the time to launch this one myself!

I’ll add it to the list. Hopefully someone takes it soon.

I added it to the Horror, Ghost and Weird Tales thread too for extra exposure since it seems to have strong occult/horror/black magic themes as well.

[ChuckW]

From Twitter:



PD everywhere (author died 1944)

Now I wish I had the time to launch this one myself!

I’ll add it to the list. Hopefully someone takes it soon.

I added it to the Horror, Ghost and Weird Tales thread too for extra exposure since it seems to have strong occult/horror/black magic themes as well.

Don't tell anyone, but I'm probably going to adopt one of the books listed there as my next solo project (after the current one, at any rate).

[flavo5000]

Hi, I just came across a couple of novels by Walter Besant that would fit this topic pretty well.

The Revolt of Man (1882)
https://archive.org/details/revoltman00besagoog/page/n6/mode/2up
Here's a whole article about it: https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/what-if-women-ruled-the-world-a-victorian-writer-gave-it-some-thought/2018/09/12/7fcd648c-b518-11e8-a7b5-adaaa5b2a57f_story.html

The Inner House (1888)
https://archive.org/details/innerhouse00besagoog/page/n8/mode/2up
This one concerns itself with what mankind chooses to do with itself in a future where immortality has been achieved.

[flavo5000]

I stumbled across another potentially interesting one relevant to this thread.

The Veiled Prisoner (1923) by Gaston Leroux (author of The Phantom of the Opera)
https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Veiled_Prisoner/EjMPAAAAQAAJ?q=&gbpv=1#f=false

The Science Fiction Encyclopedia describes it as recounting "the exploits of a mysterious captain and his super-submarine in World War One".

Oh also, The Moon Maid can be removed from the OP since it looks like it was cataloged back in 2019.

[gweeks]

Nomad by George O. Smith
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/68325

This is George O. Smith writing as Wesley Long.

Greg