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Old 01-06-2017, 06:22 PM   #271
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop View Post
What's the story with his literary estate? His classics at least are available as e-books.
Although most of the Foundation series (and its extension that joins it to the robots) is available, there are some gaps there (Robots and Empire and The Rest of the Robots for sure).

In addition, none of his sci-fi short story collections are available as eBooks (The Martian Way and Other Stories, Earth Is Room Enough, Buy Jupiter and Other Stories, etc.). And, not many of his non-Foundation novels (A Whiff of Death, Murder at the ABA, etc.) are available.

In my Calibre database, it works out to 21 of 49 fiction books (novels or short story collections) are available as eBooks. That's a shockingly low percentage for such a big-name author, and it doesn't include the hundreds of non-fiction books he wrote, of which only a handful are available.
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