Saturday, August 7, 2010

Free fiction: Massive collection of old pulp magazines

I was recently pointed to a HUGE torrent - 80GB+. Huge library of old issues of Argosy, Astounding, If, Galaxy, Amazing Stories, & more. Mostly scans as CBR files, but some issues are in the form of much smaller text files too.

I've been avoiding to talk about it, let alone link it, because it's not all clean. Torrent includes some clearly illegitimate stuff, though at first sight it appears to be mostly clean. In any case, the stuff I find most interesting is in the clean parts.

While I cannot link its URL, Google should be able to locate it - look for torrents with "pulp magazines" in title. It appears to be quite old, but is still alive.

I've linked several of these in the past elsewhere. While I've not reconciled individual issues with what I already have, I think this lot includes several I haven't seen online before.

In the issues' list below, link on a specific issue name goes to individual post about it, if I have one. These individual issue posts have alternate download links too, where I'm aware of them. Links on a magazine name yield more fiction from the magazine.

Lot includes, among other things:

  1. Astounding: January 1930, February 1930, March 1930, April 1930, May 1930, June 1930, July 1930, August 1930, September 1930, October 1930, November 1930, December 1930, February 1932, January 1935, April 1935, January 1936, August 1937, January 1938, August 1938, March 1940, October 1940, March 1941 (with a few pages missing), June 1941, August 1941, October 1941, December 1941, May 1942, November 1942, January 1943, April 1943, December 1943, June 1944, July 1944, August 1944, September 1944, November 1944, December 1944, January 1945, February 1945, July 1945, August 1945, September 1945, October 1945, November 1945, January 1946, February 1946, March 1946, April 1946, May 1946, June 1946, July 1946, August 1946, September 1946, October 1946, November 1946, December 1946, January 1947, February 1947, March 1947, April 1947, May 1947, June 1947, July 1947, August 1947, September 1947, October 1947, November 1947, December 1947, January 1948, February 1948, April 1948, May 1948, June 1948, July 1948, August 1948, September 1948, October 1948, November 1948, December 1948, January 1949, March 1949, May 1949, June 1949, July 1949, August 1949, November 1949, December 1950, February 1951, August 1951, February 1952, November 1953, July 1955, September 1955 (British edition), October 1955 (British edition), June 1957, October 1959, January 1960 (British edition).
  2. Galaxy: October 1950, November 1950 (World edition), December 1950 (World edition), January 1951 (World edition), February 1951 (World edition), March 1951, March 1951 (World edition), April 1951, May 1951, May 1951 (World edition), June 1951 (World edition), July 1951 (World edition), August 1951 (World edition), September 1951 (World edition), October 1951, November 1951, December 1951, January 1952, February 1952, March 1952, April 1952, May 1952, June 1925, July 1952, August 1952, September 1952, October 1952, November 1952, December 1952, January 1953, February 1953, March 1953, April 1953, May 1953, July 1953, August 1953, September 1953, October 1953, November 1953, December 1953, January 1954, March 1954.
  3. Thrilling Wonder Stories: February 1937, December 1937, June 1939, December 1940, February 1941, June 1943, Fall 1943, Spring 1944, Spring 1945, Fall 1945, August 1947, December 1947, February 1948, June 1948.
  4. If: March 1952, May 1952, July 1952, September 1952, November 1952, January 1953, March 1953, May 1953, July 1953, September 1953, November 1953, January 1954, April 1954, July 1954, November 1954, April 1956, February 1958, June 1958.
  5. Amazing Stories:  April 1926, May 1926, June 1926, July 1926, October 1926, November 1926, December 1926, January 1927, June 1927, August 1927, November 1927, December 1927, February 1928, April 1928, May 1928, August 1928, March 1929, July 1929, August 1929, November 1929, April 1930, May 1930, June 1930, July 1930, August 1930, January 1931, April 1931, April 1932, October 1932, April 1934, May 1934, June 1934, July 1934, August 1934, October 1934, January 1935, March 1935, June 1938, November 1938, December 1938, January 1939, February 1939, May 1939, June 1939, July 1939, December 1939, January 1940, February 1940, April 1940, May 1940, June 1940, July 1940, August 1940, September 1940, October 1940, November 1940, December 1940, January 1941, February 1941, April 1941, May 1941, June 1941, July 1941, August 1941, September 1941, October 1941, November 1941, December 1941, January 1942, March 1942, April 1942, May 1942, June 1942, July 1942, August 1942, September 1942, October 1924, November 1942, December 1942, January 1943, March 1943, April 1943, May 1943, June 1943, July 1943, August 1943, September 1943, November 1943, January 1944, March 1944, May 1944, September 1944, December 1944, March 1945, June 1945, September 1945, December 1945, February 1946, May 1946, June 1946, July 1946, August 1946, September 1946, October 1946, November 1946, December 1946, January 1947, February 1947, March 1947, April 1947, May 1947, June 1947, July 1947, August 1947, September 1947, June 1948, August 1948, February 1949, September 1949, February 1951, January 1952, November 1952, April 1953, March 1954.
  6. Amazing Stories Quarterly: Winter 1928, Spring 1928, Summer 1928, Fall 1928, Fall 1929, Winter 1931, Fall 1931, Spring 1933.
  7. F&SF:  #1 (September 1949), January 1950, Summer 1950, Fall 1950, December 1950, February 1951, April 1951, June 1951, August 1951, May 1957, July 1957, August 1958, September 1958, October 1958, January 1959.
  8. Argosy:  July 1877, August 1877, September 1877, November 1877, December 1877, April 1891, March 1897, April 1897, May 1897, June 1897, July 1897, August 1897, September 1897, October 1897, November 1908, 21 October 1922, 28 October 1922, 4 November 1922, 11 November 1922, 1 December 1923, 8 December 1923, 15 December 1923, 15 September 1928, 15 March 1930, 26 June 1937, 3 July 1937, 24 July 1937, 1 March 1941, 8 March 1941, 15 March 1941, 22 March 1941, 29 March 1941, 12 April 1941.
  9. Golden Argosy:  31 March 1888, 7 April 1888, 14 April 1888, 21 April 1888.
  10. All-Story Weekly: 19 June 1920.
  11. Dynamic Science Stories: February 1939, May 1939.
  12. Fantastic Universe: June 1953, June 1955, August 1955, October 1955, November 1955, December 1955, September 1957, June 1960.
  13. Imagination: April 1951, November 1951, July 1953, May 1954, January 1955, April 1956, April 1958.
  14. Planet Stories: #3 (UK edition), #11 (New Zealand edition), November 1939, Fall 1944, Spring 1946, November 1950, January 1951, May 1951, July 1951, November 1952.
  15. Startling Stories: #14 (New Zealand edition), January 1939, March 1939, May 1939, November 1939, January 1940, May 1940 (some pages missing), November 1941, June 1946, January 1947, May 1947, September 1950, March 1951, November 1951, August 1952 (UK edition), December 1952, Winter 1955, Summer 1955.
  16. Super Science Stories: April 1950, April 1951.
  17. Weird Tales: October 1936, October 1937, March 1938, November 1941, July 1944, September 1945 (Canadian edition), January 1946 (Canadian edition), May 1947, May 1950.
  18. Abraham Merritt's Fantasy Magazine: February 1950.
  19. Avon Fantasy Reader: #12, #14 (1950), #15, #17.
  20. Avon Science Fiction Reader: #1, #2, #3.
  21. Future Science Fiction: November 1951.
  22. Marvel Science Stories: August 1938, November 1950.
  23. Space Science Fiction: September 1952.
  24. Unknown Worlds: August 1943.
  25. Unknown: May 1940.
  26. Wonder Stories Quarterly: September 1930, Summer 1932, August 1932.
  27. Wonder Story Annual:  1951, 1952, 1953.
  28. Wonder Stories: December 1930, January 1931, May 1931, December 1934, February 1936.
Related: Fiction from old "pulps".

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