I may have to rethink what makes my next Tears review

[james_davis_nicoll]

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Does anybody want to argue that “Here Gather the Stars” is better than Dune? (First, has anybody ever even heard of it?)

“Here Gather the Stars” is by the late Clifford Simak. It is better known as Way Station.

Comments

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

Well yeah, right, but I didn't think any of his stuff was out of copyright.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Didn't his career go back to the early 1930s?

[martin-wisse.livejournal.com]

Lots of those Gutenberg editions are the magazine versions of stories: the copyright on those was often not renewed where that of the book versions was, back when that was still needed.