“The stories listed below are, to the best of my research, all PUBLIC DOMAIN in the United States,” writes the collector in an introduction to the long list, a quick scan of which reveals a who’s who of respected names in science fiction from the mid-twentieth century and earlier, from Piers Anthony to John Wyndham.

“We’re not against the dead tree, cathode ray, and celluloid versions, we just know them to be the inferior medium for transmission of story, mood, and ideas.” A strong position indeed, but one wonders: what do they think of the digital display of text as a means of sci-fi conveyance? They must harbor more than a little love for it, given that on their site, otherwise a rich trove of the genre’s literature and drama in free audio form, they’ve also cultivated a robust collection of equally free books and stories available as PDFs, many scanned straight from the original dead-tree magazines in which they first appeared. “We think audio is the best medium for Science Fiction literature and drama,” says the “About” page at.

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