You all know about Project Gutenberg, of course. Free eBooks in the public domain. I loaded up my iPhone with a bajillion of them.
I'm looking for more. I've hit the 'popular' stuff. Dr Fu Manchu, Tarzan, Quartermain, Oz, John Carter, Doc Savage, Sherlock, Kipling... but then RobertaX surpises me with this guy Piper and his body of work.
Who ELSE out there that used to write real good am I missing out on? Anyone have any forgotten gems? If there aren't a bajillion downloads on Gutenberg you might miss some really good stuff. Especially pulpy stuff from the interwar years.
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When I was a newly minted teen and had just discovered science fiction, the internet was still decades in the future and the nearest bookstore was three hours away in a city we never visited. My primary source, beyond the meager offerings of the school library, was the order forms in the back of a cheap paperback which had come my way. One of the authors prominently featured was Andre Norton, whom you should look into. Like Piper, much of her work is in the public domain and available from Project Gutenberg, or, if you have a Kindle, directly from Amazon for no cost.
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chestofbooks.com
www.ereader.com
manybooks.net
www.munseys.com
mybebook.com
baencd.thefifthimperium.com (.iso's, zip files of the free cd's Baen Books *used* to put in their hardcover books)
undernet and the #ebook pirate channel (cough)
C-90
Leonard Nason
F. Van Wyck Mason
(Just coincidence that they rhyme.)
Give Robert Ruark a try, specifically his The Old Man and the Boy and its sequel, The Old Man's Boy Grows Older. Ruark used to be known as "The poor man's Hemingway." You might try John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee books, also. MacDonald was very much from the pulp era.
WHEN DID YOU GET AN IPHONE??!!?
The Australian Gutenberg has "Trails Plowed Under" by Charles M. Russell, the Montana cowboy artist. AFAIK he only wrote this one book of stories and a large assortment of illustrated letters, but I can say "Trails Plowed Under" is a lot of fun to read. Particularly aloud. In voice.
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