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dustydigger
Posted 2015-06-13 5:00 PM (#10773 - in reply to #9162)
Subject: Re: The Definitive 1950s Reading Challenge		Quote Reply



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Location: UK		YAY! Great discovery today. I have been very frustrated by the paucity of 1950s boks available through my library. I had to buy several books to complete the challenge. Well,today I discovered an offshoot of Internet Archive called Open Library,similar to Project Gutenberg in making free access to older books.The books are scanned,and the layout is a bit clunky,but I discovered many of the 50s challenge available to borrow free for two weeks at a time!
Heres the list of available books if you can bear to read scanned books
1950
E E Smith - First Lensman
E E Doc Smith - Galactic Patrol*
Isaac Asimov - I,Robot
Isaac Asimov - Pebble in the Sky
A E Van Vogt - The Voyage of the Space Beagle*

1951
Isaac Asimov - Foundation
E E Doc Smith - Grey Lensman*
Robert A Heinlein - The Puppet Masters
Arthur C Clarke - The Sands of Mars*
Isaac Asimov - The Stars,like Dust

1952
Clifford D Simak - City*
Isaac Asimov - Currents of Space*
Alfred Bester - The Demolished Man
Isaac Asimov - Foundation and Empire
Robert A Heinlein - The Rolling Stones*
Raymond F Jones - This Island Earth

1953
Arthur C Clarke - Childhoods End
Theodore Sturgeon - More Than Human
Clifford D Simak - Ring Around the Sun*
E E Doc Smith - Second Stage Lensman*
Pohl+Kornbluth - The Space Merchants
Robert A Heinlein - Starman Jones
Wilson Tucker - Wild Talent*

1954
Isaac Asimov - Caves of Steel
Andre Norton - The Stars Are Ours!*

1955
Arthur C Clarke - Earthlight*
James Blish - Cities in Flight*
Isaac Asimov - The End of Eternity*
Isaac Asimov - The Martian Way*
Fredric Brown - Martians Go Home*

1956
William Tenn - The Human Angle*
Robert A Heinlein - Time for the Stars*
Frank Herbert - Under Pressure*

1957
Robert A Heinlein - Citizen of the Galaxy
Mark Clifton - The Forever Machine
John Wyndham - The Midwich Cuckoos
Isaac Asimov - The Naked Sun
Nevill Shute - On the Beach
Andre Norton - Star Born

1958
Brian W Aldiss - Non-Stop*
Andre Norton - Time Traders
Algis Budrys - Who?*

1959
Pat Frank - Alas Babylon*
Gordon R Dickson - Dorsai*
Pohl+Kornbluth - Wolfsbane*

asterisked books are those I intend to read.

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