Lots of online fiction by famous authors
Seeing Free SF Reader's recent links to webscription collections, I thought of looking up his older similar posts.
It has turned out to be a much longer job than I thought, but hopefully worth the trouble. I'm still only partly through his list. There won't be my normal post today.
Here are links to 10 online collections by famous authors; many have only a few stories online. Collection links go to online site; story links to my relevant posts.
- Keith Laumer's "Legions of Space". "Two complete novels, and four shorter works". Novels: "A Trace of Memory", "Planet Run". Shorts: Shorts: THE CHOICE, THREE BLIND MICE, MIND OUT OF TIME, MESSAGE TO AN ALIEN.
- Keith Laumer's "Odyssey". All 7 stories online: "GALACTIC ODYSSEY", "A Trip To The City", "Hybrid", "Combat Unit", "The King Of The City", "Once There Was A Giant", "Dinosaur Beach".
- Keith Laumer's "Future Imperfect". All 7 stories online: "CATASTROPHE PLANET", "THE WALLS", "COCOON", "FOUNDER'S DAY", "PLACEMENT TEST", "WORLDMASTER", "The Day Before Forever".
- Cordwainer Smith's "When the People Fell". Many stories. 7 online: "No, No, Not Rogov!", "War No. 81-Q", "Mark Elf", "The Queen of the Afternoon", "Scanners Live in Vain", "The Lady Who Sailed The Soul", "When the People Fell". "Scanners Live in Vain" & "No, No, Not Rogov!" are supposed to be very famous; I've read only the former & didn't really like it. "Scanners Live in Vain" also appears to be the story on which this year's Nebula nominee Jennifer Pelland's "Captive Girl" is based.
- A. Bertram Chandler's "Catch the Star Winds". Many stories, one online: "CHANCE ENCOUNTER". I've not read this story. While I've liked some Chandler stories more than others, I'm yet to really dislike one of his stories.
- Robert A. Heinlein's "Expanded Universe". Many stories, 5 online: " LIFE-LINE", "SUCCESSFUL OPERATION", "BLOWUPS HAPPEN", "SOLUTION UNSATISFACTORY", "THE LAST DAYS OF THE UNITED STATES" (is it fiction?). "Life-Line" is Heinlein's first published story.
- Murray Leinster's "A Logic Named Joe". 7 stories, all online: "The Dean of Gloucester, Virginia", "A Logic Named Joe", "Dear Charles", "Gateway To Elsewhere", "The Duplicators", "The Fourth-Dimensional Demonstrator", "The Pirates of Zan". I've not read any, but I'd quoted Wikipedia's recommendation for "A Logic Named Joe" yesterday when linking its MP3 version.
- Poul Anderson's "Time Patrol". Many stories, 1 titled "Time Patrol" online.
- Christopher Anvil's "THE INTERSTELLAR PATROL". No ToC, but one story is online: "The Claw And The Clock" (download).
- Christopher Anvil's "Interstellar Patrol II-The Federation of Humanity". Many stories, 5 online: "Riddle Me This", "The Unknown", "The Throne And The Usurper", "The Trojan Hostage", "Warlord's World".
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