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

flavo5000 · Post by **flavo5000** » March 12th, 2023, 6:47 am

This looks very cool:
A Drop In Infinity (1915) by Gerald Grogan
https://archive.org/details/dropininfinity00grog

An experimenter finds a way to project people and objects to an uninhabited world in another dimension. Among the earliest alternate/parallel world stories.

flavo5000 · Post by **flavo5000** » March 14th, 2023, 1:35 pm

Ok, this one looks absolutely nuts:

The Deer-Smellers of Haunted Mountain (1921) by John J. Meyer
[The full title being "The deer-smellers of Haunted Mountain : the almost unbelievable experiences of a cerebroic hunter in the hills of this world and the lowlands of the universe with a gypsy-eyed spirit adventurer : humorously tattle-taled"

A comedic take on dystopian future war involving astral projection, firing countries off into space, a sinister hidden mountain base and all other manner of weirdness.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008659437

gweeks · Post by **gweeks** » March 17th, 2023, 11:58 am

gweeks wrote: ↑November 25th, 2022, 4:09 am Title: The starmen
Author1: Leigh Brackett
Status: Cleared OK

This has posted to PG. It will become available in a few hours at this link.

https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/70310

Greg

flavo5000 · Post by **flavo5000** » April 3rd, 2023, 4:52 am

Here's a pretty wacky-looking story from Parker Ellis Butler:
An Experiment in Gyro Hats
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=iau.31858045109786&view=1up&seq=847

gweeks · Post by **gweeks** » April 7th, 2023, 11:32 am

gweeks wrote: ↑December 20th, 2022, 6:32 am
flavo5000 wrote: ↑December 20th, 2022, 6:07 am
gweeks wrote: ↑December 20th, 2022, 4:09 am Gray Lensman by E. E. Smith
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/69584
It looks like Children of the Lens is in the P1 queue too!
Yep, and Second Stage Lensmen is in F2.

Second stage lensmen by E.E. Smith
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/70494

Children of the lens by E. E. Smith
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/70483

Greg

gweeks · Post by **gweeks** » April 22nd, 2023, 4:32 pm

gweeks wrote: ↑February 13th, 2023, 4:08 am
philchenevert wrote: ↑December 9th, 2022, 7:44 am This is probably the wrong place to ask this, but is the STAINLESS STEEL RAT by Harry Harrison original story in Astounding SF 1957 in the public domain. He wrote this before expanding it into a book and then series.
This short story has posted to Project Gutenberg.

The stainless steel rat by Harry Harrison
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/70034

The novel has posted to PG.

The stainless steel rat by Harry Harrison
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/70622

Greg

flavo5000 · Post by **flavo5000** » April 27th, 2023, 5:10 am

This could be a fun one for the Short Sci-fi collection:
An Anachronism, or Missing One's Coach (1838) by Anonymous
https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/sffaudio-usa/mp3s/AnAnachronismOrMissingOnesCoachByAnonymous.pdf

This was one of the first published stories about time travel!

flavo5000 · Post by **flavo5000** » April 27th, 2023, 5:48 am

And another!
In the Deep of Time by George Parsons Lathrop
https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/sffaudio-usa/mp3s/InTheDeepOfTimeByGeorgeParsonsLathrop.pdf

This novella was based on Thomas Edison's ideas of what the future would be like. There's a whole write-up on it here: https://www.oldphono.com/blog/35-thomas-edison-forgotten-sci-fi-novel

flavo5000 · Post by **flavo5000** » May 1st, 2023, 4:52 am

Here's a sci-fi story from the Argosy:
The Blue Death (1904) by Masters B. Stevens
https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/sffaudio-usa/mp3s/TheBlueDeathByMastersB.StevensArgosyFeb1904.pdf

flavo5000 · Post by **flavo5000** » May 7th, 2023, 6:23 am

I think the title of this one is self-explanatory:
The Immortal Guinea Pig by Ronald MacDonald
https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/sffaudio-usa/mp3s/TheImmortalGuineaPigByRonaldMacdonaldTheWindsorMagazineSep1921.pdf

gweeks · Post by **gweeks** » May 14th, 2023, 11:53 am

Corpus earthling by Louis Charbonneau
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/70760

Destiny times three by Fritz Leiber
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/70761

Greg

gweeks · Post by **gweeks** » May 20th, 2023, 2:16 pm

Scream at midnight by Joseph Payne Brennan
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/70817

After world's end by Jack Williamson
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/70814

Greg

Boomcoach · Post by **Boomcoach** » May 22nd, 2023, 9:23 pm

gweeks wrote: ↑May 20th, 2023, 2:16 pm Scream at midnight by Joseph Payne Brennan
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/70817

Greg

Taking a quick look at this one, it looks to be more horror than science fiction and is a collection of short stories, so could be read as a collection, or cherry-picked for entries into short story collections.

gweeks · Post by **gweeks** » May 23rd, 2023, 2:37 am

Boomcoach wrote: ↑May 22nd, 2023, 9:23 pm
gweeks wrote: ↑May 20th, 2023, 2:16 pm Scream at midnight by Joseph Payne Brennan
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/70817

Greg
Taking a quick look at this one, it looks to be more horror than science fiction and is a collection of short stories, so could be read as a collection, or cherry-picked for entries into short story collections.

My sources said SF with horror elements. I didn't try reading them. Yes, it should fit well with collections , as it is a collection. People should be able to pull single stories out for the regular collection projects as well.

Greg

flavo5000 · Post by **flavo5000** » May 23rd, 2023, 5:04 am

gweeks wrote: ↑May 23rd, 2023, 2:37 am
Boomcoach wrote: ↑May 22nd, 2023, 9:23 pm
gweeks wrote: ↑May 20th, 2023, 2:16 pm Scream at midnight by Joseph Payne Brennan
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/70817

Greg
Taking a quick look at this one, it looks to be more horror than science fiction and is a collection of short stories, so could be read as a collection, or cherry-picked for entries into short story collections.
My sources said SF with horror elements. I didn't try reading them. Yes, it should fit well with collections , as it is a collection. People should be able to pull single stories out for the regular collection projects as well.

Greg

It's mostly a horror collection but it does have one story that's pure sci-fi, "The Dump". A couple of other stories have elements of sci-fi too. I recorded the whole collection earlier this year.