Re: Kindle boxed set

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.
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https://a.co/d/8X3aldW
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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.