XPost: rec.arts.sf.written   
   From: morrisj@epsilon3.me   
      
   On 4/14/2025 11:12 AM, Ted Nolan  wrote:   
   > In article ,   
   > Jay Morris   wrote:   
   >> Amazon has "Sci-Fi Boxed Set: 160+ Space Adventures, Lost Worlds,   
   >> Dystopian Novels & Apocalyptic Tales: The War of the Worlds, Anthem,   
   >> Space Viking, The Conquest of America…" for $0.99. 28,442 pages. Comes   
   >> as one book.   
   >>   
   >> https://a.co/d/8X3aldW   
   >>   
   >> e-artnow presents to you this unique SF collection, designed and   
   >> formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability   
   >> on all devices.   
   >   
   > But not formatted for cutting & pasting apparently:   
   >   
   > E. M. Forster The Machine Stops   
   > 	Read & liked but very little memory   
   >   
   > Richard Jefferies After London   
   > 	DNR   
   >   
   > Richard Stockham Perchance to Dream   
   > 	DNR   
   >   
   > Irving E. Cox The Guardians   
   > 	DNR   
   > Philip F. Nowlan Armageddon 2419 A.D   
   > 	Classic   
   >   
   > George Griffith The Angel of the Revolution   
   > 	DNR   
   >   
   > Percy Greg Across the Zodiac   
   > 	DNR   
   >   
   > David Lindsay A Voyage to Arcturus   
   > 	Checked it out from the library more than once but   
   > 	somehow never got to it.   
   >   
   > Edward E. Hale The Brick Moon   
   > 	Gets namechecked a lot for satellites, but DNR   
   >   
   > Stanley G. Weinbaum A Martian Odyssey   
   > 	Classic   
   >   
   > Abraham Merritt The Moon Pool   
   > 	Ship of Ishtar was excellent, this is (somewhere) on the   
   > 	TBR list.   
   >   
   > Edgar Wallace The Green Rust   
   > 	DNR   
   >   
   > H. Beam Piper Terro-Human Future History   
   > 	Not clear what this includes.  Surely some of Piper   
   > 	is very good.   
   >   
   > Garrett P. Serviss The Sky Pirate   
   > 	DNR   
   >   
   > Philip K. Dick Second Variety   
   > 	Pretty sure read, but no memory   
   >   
   > Jules Verne Journey to the Center of the Earth   
   > 	DNR   
   >   
   > H. G. Wells The Time Machine   
   > 	Classic   
   >   
   > Edgar Allan Poe A Descent into the Maelstrom   
   > 	DNR   
   >   
   > Mary Shelley Frankenstein   
   > 	Classic   
   >   
   > Edwin A. Abbott Flatland   
   > 	Classic   
   >   
   > Jack London Iron Heel   
   > 	DNR   
   >   
   > R. L. Stevenson Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde   
   > 	Classic   
   >   
   > George MacDonald Lilith   
   > 	DNR   
   >   
   > H. Rider Haggard King Solomon's Mines/She   
   > 	Definitely on the TBR list, but not yet.   
   >   
   > William H. Hodgson The Night Land   
   > 	DNR   
   >   
   > Edward Bellamy Looking Backward   
   > 	DNR   
   >   
   > Mark Twain A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court   
   > 	7/8 pretty good. 1/8 awful.   
   >   
   > Arthur Conan Doyle The Lost World   
   > 	Absolute classic   
   >   
   > Edgar Rice Burroughs Pellucidar Series/Caspak Series   
   > 	Pellucidar not bad (the relative time stuff is   
   > 	interesting) but not Burroughs best.  Caspak DNR.   
   >   
   > Francis Bacon New Atlantis   
   > 	DNR   
   >   
   > C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne The Lost Continent   
   > 	DNR   
   >   
   > Margaret Cavendish The Blazing World   
   > 	DNR   
   >   
   > Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels   
   > 	Not what you would expect given the pop culture that   
   > 	has accumulated around it, but very good.   
   >   
   > William Morris News from Nowhere   
   > 	DNR   
   >   
   > Samuel Butler Erewhon   
   > 	DNR   
   >   
   > Edward Bulwer-Lytton The Coming Race   
   > 	Is the coming race dark & stormy? DNR   
   >   
   > James F. Cooper The Monikins   
   > 	DNR   
   >   
   > Charlotte P. Gilman Herland   
   > 	DNR   
   >   
   > Ayn Rand Anthem   
   > 	DNR   
   >   
   > Owen Gregory Meccania the Super State   
   > 	DNR   
   >   
      
   I got lazy and left it the way it was on Amazon, especially since it   
   didn't list all 165+ books.   
      
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