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You like science fiction, don't you? Of course you do!
IainB:
Here's a list of my SF library (text) on disk:
AC Clarke - Reach for Tomorrow.txt
David Gerrold + Larry Niven - Flying Sorcerers.zip
Gary W Shockley - The Disambiguation of Captain Shroud.zip
Harry Harrison - Stainless Steel Rat 5 (TheSSR for President).zip
HHGTTG - complete.zip
Iain Banks - Against a Dark Background.zip
Iain Banks - Canal Dreams.zip
Iain Banks - Complicity.zip
Iain Banks - Consider Phlebas.zip
Iain Banks - Look To Windward.zip
Iain Banks - The player of games.zip
Iain Banks - The State of the Art.zip
Isaac Asimov - Two cm Demon.zip
Kurt Vonnegut - The Sirens of Titan (1).zip
Larry Niven - A Hole In Space (SSCol).zip
Larry Niven - Crashlander (1994).zip
Larry Niven - Heorot 1 - Legacy Of Heorot.zip
Larry Niven - Inferno (1976).zip
Larry Niven - The Return of William Proxmire.zip
Larry Niven - The Ringworld Engineers.zip
Larry Niven - Unfinished Story 1 and 2 v1.0.zip
Philip K Dick - A Maze Of Death - [txt].zip
Philip K Dick - A Scanner Darkly (1977).zip
Philip K Dick - Complete Stories 4 (SSCol).zip
Philip K Dick - Counter Clock World.zip
Philip K Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (txt).zip
Philip K Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.zip
Philip K Dick - Dr Bloodmoney (1965).zip
Philip K Dick - Flow My Tears The Policeman Said (1974).zip
Philip K Dick - Galactic Pot Healer.zip
Philip K Dick - How to Build a Universe.zip
Philip K Dick - Martian Time Slip.zip
Philip K Dick - Now Wait For Last Year.zip
Philip K Dick - Rautavaara's Case.zip
Philip K Dick - Second Variety (ebook).zip
Philip K Dick - Solar Lottery.zip
Philip K Dick - The 3 Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch.zip
Philip K Dick - The Book of Philip K Dick.zip
Philip K Dick - The Man In The High Castle.zip
Philip K Dick - The Penultimate Truth.zip
Philip K Dick - The Simulacra v1.0 (txt).zip
Philip K Dick - The Unteleported Man.zip
Philip K Dick - The World Jones Made.zip
Philip K Dick - The Zap Gun.zip
Philip K Dick - Ubik (1969).zip
Philip K Dick - VALIS.zip
Philip K Dick - Valisystem - A Work In Progress (1974).zip
Philip K Dick - We Can Remember It For You Wholesale.zip
Philip Kindred Dicktionary of PK Dick terminology.zip
Robert Heinlein -Tunnel In the Sky.zip
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MilesAhead:
Here's a list of my SF library (text) on disk
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Do you have a free source for the PKD ones by any chance? I found one site where I didn't need a special reader but I could only snag 11 titles.
IainB:
Well, I was variously given or obtained all those books from free sites in around 2005.
The first one in the list (a .TXT format file called "Reach for Tomorrow") was from the The Library of Congress Online Catalog
Not sure, but I think some of the others - e.g., the PK Dick ones - may have been from there too. They are variously in .RTF, .DOC., .PDF format.
I think quite a few also came from universities - e.g., Stanford U re PKD
Quite a few of the texts contain URLs to their sources.
I should be able to send you links to all those titles if you want to PM me for that info separately.
I provided a link to the HHTTG .zip file because that had been referred to in the discussion thread. The text files in that .ZIP file are .TEX format. I think it came from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Home Page
Arizona Hot:
Oblivion: I rememer reading the story way back when. But, when I checked out that title on Google, I only found this story by Murray Leinster on Wikipedia. Googling to avoid that story got me nothing either.
Sidewise in Time - Wikipedia
Wash. Attorney: ‘I have physically traveled in time’
Below is an excerpt from here:
In other words, you can't change the past because you have already changed it.
Arizona Hot:
The 1973 BBC Radio broadcast of Isaac Asimov's The Foundation Trilogy is available on archive.org.
The Foundation Trilogy concists of:
1. Foundations
2. Foundation and Empire
3. Second Foundation
The Foundation Trilogy is an epic science fiction series written over a span of forty-four years by Isaac Asimov. It consists of seven volumes that are closely linked to each other, although they can be read separately. The series is highly acclaimed, winning the one-time Hugo Award for "Best All-Time Series" in 1966.
The premise of the series is that mathematician Hari Seldon spent his life developing a branch of mathematics known as psychohistory, a concept devised by Asimov and his editor John W. Campbell. Using the law of mass action, it can predict the future, but only on a large scale; it is error-prone for anything smaller than a planet or an empire. It works on the principle that the behavior of a mass of people is predictable if the quantity of this mass is very large (equal to the population of the galaxy). The larger the mass, the more predictable is the future. Using these techniques, Seldon foresees the fall of the Galactic Empire, which encompasses the entire Milky Way, and a dark age lasting thirty thousand years before a second great empire arises. To shorten the period of barbarism, he creates two Foundations, small, secluded havens of art, science, and other advanced knowledge, on opposite ends of the galaxy.
The focus of the trilogy is on the Foundation of the planet Terminus. The people living there are working on an all-encompassing Encyclopedia, and are unaware of Seldon's real intentions (for if they were, the variables would become too uncontrolled). The Encyclopedia serves to preserve knowledge of the physical sciences after the collapse. The Foundation's location is chosen so that it acts as the focal point for the next empire in another thousand years (rather than the projected thirty thousand).
Audio has 8 parts
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Foundation_Trilogy_%28BBC_Radio%29
http://www.archive.org/details/IsaacAsimov-TheFoundationTrilogy
-app103 (December 14, 2011, 04:32 PM)
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I'm glad I checked for this. I was going to post about this
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