December 13, 2005: Robert Sheckley, one of the few authors represented with copyrighted works at Project Gutenberg, died December 9 at age 77 in Poughkeepsie. According to a New York times obituary, Sheckley “is considered one of science fiction’s seminal humorists, and a precursor to Douglas Adams“; but “a better comparison might be to Kafka, […]
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From hart at pglaf.org Wed Dec 28 09:37:35 2005 From: hart at pglaf.org (Michael Hart) Date: Wed Dec 28 09:37:38 2005 Subject: [gweekly] PT1a Weekly Project Gutenberg Newsletter Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0512280937050.9432@pglaf.org> pt1a3.d05 Weekly_December_28.txt *The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, December 28, 2005 PT1* *******eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since July 4, 1971******** PT1A […]
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