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[cromag]

The Open Road edition of Topper, by Thorne Smith, is currently free in the US at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo and Apple. There are multiple other editions available that are not free, but Open Road is a reputable source and I trust they have the legal right to offer it.

The movie and the television series were fun, but the book is much better IMHO. Still very funny, but with an almost subversive edge.

Here's the link to the Amazon deal:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09PJ9TGLD



If you regularly buy at another site I assume you know how to find it there. I don't know how long this deal will last.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by cromag

The Open Road edition of Topper, by Thorne Smith, is currently free in the US at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo and Apple. There are multiple other editions available that are not free, but Open Road is a reputable source and I trust they have the legal right to offer it.

Considering that Thorne Smith passed away on June 20, 1934, the text is the books is in the public domain. Some of the illustrations in his books are not in the PD.

Originally Posted by cromag

If you regularly buy at another site I assume you know how to find it there. I don't know how long this deal will last.

Looking at Kobo Canada, there are 13 versions of Topper available. Multiple editions are $0.99 Cdn or less plus multiple versions in Kobo Plus (this includes the Open Road edition) and one version under the original name of The Jovial Ghosts.

I still have the original paperback versions of most of his books which I picked up at multiple secondhand stores more years back than I care to remember.

[cromag]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Considering that Thorne Smith passed away on June 20, 1934, the text is the books is in the public domain. Some of the illustrations in his books are not in the PD.

Yes. Here in the States the copyright was renewed in 1953 which I think still puts it in the public domain, but our copyright laws are more complicated than I care to deal with so I wanted to play it safe. Oddly, it's not (yet) in Project Gutenberg (US).

[pdurrant]

Topper was published in 1926, so it's in the public domain in the US, and has been since 1st January 2022. The sequel, Topper Takes a Trip was published in 1932, and won't be in the US public domain until 1st January 2028.

Since Thorne Smith died in 1934, his works have been in the public domain the life+70 countries since 1st January 2005.

[Cactus Chef]

The Woods of Arcady, the second novel in the Sanctuary of the White Friars series by Michael Moorcock, is on sale for $2.99 from the following vendors:

• Amazon
• Kobo
• Google Play
• Barnes and Noble
• Apple Books

I'm so glad that this one is on sale at all the major shops, as I had to grab The Whispering Swarm from Amazon when it went on sale last year, due to it being the only site running the sale.

[ZodWallop]

The Woods of Arcady by Michael Moorcock is $3 at Amazon, B&N and Kobo US.

Book Two of The Sanctuary of the White Friars, sequel to The Whispering Swarm. Moorcock is inserting himself into his multiverse.

A wild desert crossing, a secret island paradise, a hidden underground civilization, plus London and Paris. The multiverse expands as pulp adventure mixes with unreal memoir in the second volume in The Sanctuary of the White Friars series.

In the 1970s, Michael Moorcock, a writer of genre fiction, attempts to save his failing marriage by taking his wife and daughters to Paris. One night in a bar he is amazed to find himself drinking with heroes of story and history. The next day he awakens aboard a sailing ship, kidnapped into another reality by a French highwayman and the four Musketeers, who know Moorcock well from adventures in London's Alsacia...but that was another Moorcock, from another world.

Soon after they reach Africa, the company is rescued from an ambush by Antara, a poet-adventurer who offers to lead them across the desert and through several realities to the estate of Lord and Lady Blackstone. The trip is full of wonders Moorcock has read, dreamed, or written: an underground civilization of nonhuman creatures; a magical oasis where the lion lies down with the lamb; a lush garden inhabited by miniature dinosaurs.

They are pursued by the notorious Jacob Nixer, who also remembers the Alsacia and is determined to destroy Moorcock and his companions.

The main narrative of The Woods of Arcady is punctuated by episodes from the story of the Blackstones and by spirited, freewheeling appearances by Captain Buggerly Otherly and his companions from the Second Ether. As readers move deeper into Moorcock's multiverse, it rises up on all sides, ready to astound.

[Cactus Chef]

Literally right above you, man!

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Cactus Chef

Literally right above you, man!

Yeah, when I posted I didn't see that there was another page, then when I did see it I went looking for my free copy of Topper.

[Quoth]

PD copies of Topper are on several well known PD sites. No need for a scan without the proofing from archive org! He died 89 years ago and it's not a corporate work.

[Dr. Drib]

Just visit Mobileread's library of FREE books:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...t=thorne+smith

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Quoth

PD copies of Topper are on several well known PD sites. No need for a scan without the proofing from archive org! He died 89 years ago and it's not a corporate work.

Yeah, but Open Road is good quality. An Open Road copy of a book you want to read listed as free shouldn't be skipped.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Yeah, but Open Road is good quality. An Open Road copy of a book you want to read listed as free shouldn't be skipped.

It wasn't free here.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Cactus Chef

The Woods of Arcady, the second novel in the Sanctuary of the White Friars series by Michael Moorcock, is on sale for $2.99 from the following vendors:

• Amazon
• Kobo
• Google Play
• Barnes and Noble
• Apple Books

I'm so glad that this one is on sale at all the major shops, as I had to grab The Whispering Swarm from Amazon when it went on sale last year, due to it being the only site running the sale.

Thanks. I've grabbed this one.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Quoth

PD copies of Topper are on several well known PD sites. No need for a scan without the proofing from archive org! He died 89 years ago and it's not a corporate work.

Including Mobileread.

[ZodWallop]

They Walked Like Men by Clifford D. Simak is $2 at Amazon, B&N and Kobo US.

Imagine a world where local papers have science reporters? That's some science fiction.

A reporter uncovers a terrifying conspiracy, in this thrilling classic from a Science Fiction Grand Master.

After a night out on the town, Parker Graves returns home to life-threatening danger. The science reporter for the local newspaper barely misses a bear trap sitting on his doorstep. Then, the object transforms into what looks like a bowling ball and rolls off into the night all by itself. He begins to obsess over the question—Who put the trap there? And why?

The following day, there is strange news floating around at the newspaper office. Someone with limitless funds is buying up hundreds of homes and businesses, only to close them up and tear them down. People are running out of places to live and to work. Suddenly, Parker finds himself in the middle of a story nobody will believe . . .

Aliens? Dolls that walk like people? Talking dogs? With a little help from a fellow reporter and an unusual visitor, Parker just might be able to put a stop to this mess—if he survives.