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   Bobbie Sellers to Pluted Pup   
   Re: Gaping hole in isfdb re: Jack London   
   02 Feb 26 22:41:31   
   
   XPost: rec.arts.books   
   From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 2/2/26 21:09, Pluted Pup wrote:   
   > Rediscovering this site, I looked at Jack London, and   
   > wondered whether I had the Dreams Of Debs, like there's   
   > something of his I don't have.   Well, I do, the   
   > cornerstone of my Jack London collection is the   
   > Complete Short Stories published in 3 volumes by   
   > Stanford, in 1993, and in-print in the early 21st   
   > century, at least, when i bought mine.  It is more   
   > than complete, beginner unpublished stories as well.   
   >   
   > It is properly paginated through the three books,   
   > so you only need the page number to find something,   
   > and there's little ambiguity in whether a volume   
   > could be mistaken as the complete book.  It is   
   > chronological.  What it fails to do, is to list the   
   > original books these were published, like Moonface,   
   > or Turtles of Tasman, etc., with page numbers to   
   > the individual stories, to get a better grasp on   
   > the context of the original story collections.   
   >   
   > Not much si-fi here, in the contemporary sense,   
   > but I recall, Goliah, Scarlet Plague, and some   
   > early ghost stories, with humor.   
   >   
   > https://www.amazon.com/dp/0804720584   
   >   
      
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   triumph of capital over labor.   
   	   
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