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Originally Posted by JeremyR
That's the terrible thing about current copyright laws - works like this will probably never, ever see the light of day legally. And probably bypassed by illegal scanners as well...
Just lost in the dustbin of history, even though they could have been saved...
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Ah, but then you are assuming that every author's works deserve to be saved. I wager for every Dickens, Twain, Wells, Verne, etc. that is preserved there are 100's of authors who never made the grade because something about their writing just didn't click with the readers of the day. We speak of the Golden Age of Science Fiction for example and name favorite authors who got their start in the Genre back then, but I hardly think they were the only writers who wrote Science Fiction at the time. Some probably just didn't write something that really caught the reading public's interest and some remained in obscurity for other reasons. Some may have died in WWII for example or given up before they wrote a breakthrough story that got people talking about the new writer whose story they had just read. And some even back then probably just didn't have the proper skill to write fiction that lasts.