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From: Jay Morris <morrisj@epsilon3.me>
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Subject: Re: Kindle boxed set
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 14:43:15 -0500
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On 4/14/2025 11:12 AM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
> In article <vtjatu$1ihdk$1@epsilon3.eternal-september.org>,
> Jay Morris  <morrisj@epsilon3.me> 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.