File-Sharing Call to Arms: Sci-Fi Writer Needs Pirate Books

An American science fiction writer is trying to get his hard-copy out-of-print books online and to that end he’s actually using illicit sources to build his stock of eBooks. However, he thinks that some of his books are so obscure that pirates have overlooked them, and he’s offering a prize to anyone that can provide them. TorrentFreak has found one, anyone up for the rest of the challenge?

American sci-fi Walter Jon Williams is determined to bring enjoyment and availability of his books to the digital domain.

“Like every other midlist writer on the planet, I’m striving to get my out-of-print books and stories online so that (a) you can enjoy them, and (b) I can make a few bucks,” he wrote on his blog this weekend.

“To this end, I embarked upon a Cunning Plan.”

That plan was quite simple. Williams, like just about every other writer, band, TV show and movie maker, discovered that many of his books could be found for free online, some of them on BitTorrent sites. So, rather than do all the hard digitizing work himself, why not take a short cut?

“So I downloaded my own work from thence with the intention of saving the work of scanning my books— I figured I’d let the pirates do the work, and steal from them. While this seemed karmically sound, there proved a couple problems,” he noted.

As is often the case with eBooks, quality was poor, resulting in a lot of time spent copy-editing. However, there was a more serious problem.

“Apparently a few of my books were so obscure that they flew under the radar of even the pirates! You can’t imagine how astounded I was when I discovered this,” said Williams.

Resigned to the fact that three of his books aren’t available in pirate form, Williams asked anyone who owns a hardcopy to do some scans for him.

“So I’m willing to trade. Should any of you volunteer to provide scans of Days of Atonement, Angel Station, and Knight Moves, that lucky individual will get a signed, personalized copy of the WJW book of his or her choice (assuming I actually have a copy, of course). Plus, whatever book you scan will spend digital eternity with your name in it, along with my eternal thanks,” he concludes.

However, a little digging around using various tools led to TorrentFreak finding the last book (Knight Moves) online and of course we’re going to send it off to Mr Williams for his collection. But if the 3rd book is available, what about the others?

There must be some of the best searchers in the world reading this article right now and there’s never been a better time to put those skills to some culture-preserving use. Send the links to us (all 3 books, since a better copy of the 3rd might be available) and we’ll be sure to send them off with your email address to Walter Jon Williams. Happy searching!

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- Mullit
  
  Interesting…..
  
  Read this guy’s reviews on how he see’s blu-ray prices are fair and castigates filesharers as being the next greatest evil after Hitler:
  
  http://hcc.techradar.com/blogs/dvd-addict/dvd-addict-surely-its-time-stop-whinging-about-price-blu-rays-16-05-11#comment-3620
  
  It would be interesting to see if he can find a replacement for his most precious titles in 20 years without filesharing services….that’s if the studios don’t decide to bump the prices upto £50 a go once the sharers are labelled ‘law-breakers’. Lol
  - Wake Up Call
    
    yeah.. screw this guy. I have “Days of Atonement” in high quality inside a pdf. But sharing is caring, and honestly… fuck Walter Jon Williams. You can’t act like pirates are demons who want to eat your soul & then when you’re out of fire ask for demonic help. It doesn’t work that way bro. I’m not giving you something someone worked their ass off on scanning, so you can take it and make money. I DON’T EVEN GIVE A FUCK THAT YOU WROTE IT. Quit being a lazy asshole & scan your own shit. It wasn’t even that good of a story. So quit being a lazy asshole & write something a little more engaging. Also, quit being a lazy asshole & blaming others for the dismal sales of your dull stories.
    
    What a dickhead.
  - Bob
    
    I must be missing something… what has an article by an Anton van Beek got to do with Walter Jon Williams??
    - PetitFleur
      
      I think the comparison was that Walter Jon Williams is now relying on a ‘pirate’ method to rescue something special to him.
      
      By the same token Anton van Beek may rue the day he relies on the movie studios to provide a replacement for an out-of-production work in the future.
      
      Least, that’s how I in interpret it. Could be wrong.
Anonymous

Hmm OK… “So I downloaded my own work from thence with the intention of saving the work of scanning my books— I figured I’d let the pirates do the work, and steal from them”

You cant steal from file-sharing. It is only a copying, transferring and using however you want resource. Sure making money off of copied media is usually not welcomed but it is fine if you are the rights holder.

It is however helpful to give credit to the people who did the work. Beyond that in the words of the entire file-sharing community “I hope you enjoyed what you downloaded and shared. Sharing is caring”

The next/current step is to use file-sharing as a marketing tool. Nice advert.
- Ninja
  
  I think he was joking around. I might read his books.. By that time I hope he has a donation button on his site (just in case I like them) ;D
- Anon
  
  “and steal from them”
  
  I don’t think this is an accident, frankly, it’s a revealing insight into the mentality of creators whose works were for once sale to support their living but are now copied for free online taking away that support. There is technical “sense” in reminding us how copying and infringement is not precisely stealing, and I think everyone gets that distinction by now. I certainly do. But that argument lacks common sense because it’s a distinction without a difference, you still take the product and they still don’t get the sale. Common sense tells us if a product in any format is for sale and pirates find some technical means to obtain that product free, there’s a form of digital theft in play. You can indicate the theft of sales price, or the theft of control, or the theft of what has always been the creators prerogatives, now unfairly and unlawfully usurped by others just because they can. But where is the justice in that? These are all “takings” in one form or other and all, obviously, without paying. The greater challenge to pirates today is not semantic distinctions but in refuting this widely held common sense and that will be a tough sell to the average individual. “You can’t stop us” is the dumbest thing you could have said, because now governments are taking up your idiotic challenge and your “hiding and taking without paying” results in a loss of freedom for us all.
  - http://twitter.com/uJonesing Utah Jones
    
    So, basically what you’re saying is that file-sharing is more like buying a used item, where the original creator of the item sees no result in profit from a sale, and where customers had no intention of making a purchase of the item from the original creator? Last time I checked, buying used wasn’t a crime. Of course, there’s always the middle guy who makes a profit (the used-item seller), but when that’s done in the file-sharing community we frown upon it (and rightly so).
    - Anon
      
      No. Where did I say any of that? A digital copy is a perfect replica, brand new and indistinguishable from the original. Frowning on “middle guys” who facilitate sale is so 2005. If the past 12 years have taught us nothing else it’s that the skillset to create true artistry exists almost exclusively from the business savvy skillset to market, promote and sell it. You might as well justify colluding against supermarkets because they are “middle guys’ to the farmer’s field. Or auto dealers who get between you and the production line. Or hospitals who employ Doctors and retail their services to you. Or gas stations between you and oil rigs. Get used to the existence of “middle guys”. Indie musicians are rapidly discovering the value of putting their time and energies to creating good music and letting all the OTHERS you love to hate-on actually provide the services where THEIR talents lie. The creation, promotion, distribution and sale of artistic goods and services has always been collaborative and will always BE collaborative as long as we have our human limitations. Middlemen were here before you because they serve valuable purpose. They’ll be here after you are gone for the same reason. Can’t ANYONE advance a common sense, good argument that will resonate with the masses for taking fore-sale product without paying for it beyond “you can’t stop us”? ANYone? Before you provoke fascism on us all?
    - Mullit
      
      I like the argument that what the artist gets is a pittance to what these middle-men, ‘on-the-take’ if you like, actually do take. The cost and expense of products that retail internationally are NOT in proportion to the material they contain (crap movie, large cost), nor the substances of which they are made (plastic, aluminium sliver and a bit of paper).
      
      Like cigarette advertisers in the past the moguls have successfully pitched a truly inexpensive item and tried to make it look priceless and indispensible.
      You bought the hype.
      
      Therefore I, and many like me feel ripped-off, or have been ripped-off too often to care about the ethics. The ethics of the studios and producers of these products is questionable anyway. First their market price can be ridiculous (this is a movie, it takes 20 minutes to burn, finish and package…..if it is any good, it made it’s value back in the cinema). Second, the proceeds of the movie are not equally distributed amongst the actors, extras, kitchen staff, best boys(?!) etc., so it is not an ‘fair’ work to start with. Couple this with the fact that some artists are not fairly compensated for their creativity and the studios are the only one’s to profit, again, I see no reason to feel any compassion for your middlemen.
      
      The pirate community was, in the beginning, very small, private, remote and secretive. It is hype by the studios that brought it into the limelight and made people wonder how it was done. They are now hoist by their own petard.
      Their own fear and greed has helped escalate a hobby into a global issue.
      
      No I do not feel like a thief. But I will not be taken for a mug again either.
  - Mullit
    
    You could also argue that theft is a relative thing, in as much as, without a regulatory force (pirating) to counteract the price fixing of the monopoly that is the studio conglomerate (ie, price fixing by the studios)….we all get robbed.
    
    Common sense tells us that £50 for a plastic disc would be an extortionate amount…but if the studios had their way, that’s the minimum they would probably want to charge.
    
    Vive la filesharers! Bon chance.
    - Anon
      
      “Common sense tells us that £50 for a plastic disc would be an extortionate amount”
      
      For your vacation photos?, sure. But for a product years and millions of dollars in development?, not at all. When you face compensating the real costs of creation and not the pennies for the plastic disc on which it is packaged, you’ll be respected for your comprehension of basic economics.
    - http://www.facebook.com/people/Sean-Mcintier/735781403 Sean Mcintier
      
      Doesn’t cost millions of dollars to make a high quality album…
    - http://www.facebook.com/senortrollio Jeffrey Whitehurst
      
      it doesnt take many sells to recoup a million dollars in investments, real creation comes from the indie artists, game dev. who make their own work sell it and code it all themselves for much lower than any big company, eventually big studios will die from the thousand needles of individual sellers using the internet as a middleman which doesnt take much money in its pockets to spread word.
    - Wyrdoak
      
      I downloaded an album from an artist’s web site for $10, burnt the CD myself and used the album graphics, also downloaded with the music, to label it.
      
      The same album in the music store was listed at $40. For $30 I can buy a lot of blank CD’s.
      
      I wish other artists would do this, I think it would stop a lot of the “problem” if they could.
    - Anon
      
      When I read “regulatory force (pirating)” I almost blew coffee through my nose. lol
      
      If you expect government and industry to respect and adapt to an unlawful activity that pulls cash and taxes from an economy and yet still obtains the products as a “regulatory force”……lol……. you are sicker in the head than we thought.
    - Anonymous
      
      SO you make a movie that cost 50 million. total. you make 100million before you have even sold one single disc.
      
      SO again how is it any different than your “family photo’s” exactly?
      
      Its not theft for a very simple reason. nothing is taken. its copied.
      
      the value of a movie is not based on the cost to make it but on the PLEASURE it gives the BUYER. period.
      
      I bought all 6 versions of “avatar” that movie gave me a lot of pleasure and the price was “fair” in my book.
      
      I would not pay 50cents for “twilight” while it was not bad it does “nothing for me” so its “worthless” to me.
      
      people need to wake up and learn WE are in control not them. The only reason they are in control is that we “waive” our power of control as a society willingly.
      
      Copyright and Patent are ultimately BAD for society. this is why they are TEMPORARY.
      
      We have extended copyright to damned near infinity so they feel like its something they are “entitled” to. No wonder its so out of control.
    - Mullit
      
      By that logic you are a sheeple
      Nobody sharing has ‘taken’ from anyone.
      Nor can anyone prove that the curiosity which drove them to download would have been sufficiently strong as to convince themselves to buy an original product.
      Extortionate pricing and price fixing is another matter.
      Those have been challenged in courts of law.
      I like your contempt…mine is equal but for the opposite reason.
      By the way, sharing is caring, fascism is contempt for others and their opinions.
      …..Sticks and stones.
    - Mullit
      
      Who’s we? Are you the studio vegatable….sorry, ‘plant’?
    - Distributors and the economy
      
      Let me tell you something about pulling cash from the economy. Have you ever considered the fact that all the money that would have gone into copy licenses (i.e. “buying” media) is now free to be spent elsewhere? Therefore, in a way, the economy *benefits* from unauthorised copying. Also consider this: a plastic disc is worthless and yet it sells for a high price. If you forget for a moment about the initial production cost, paying for copies is essentially no different from donating money to a distributor, which in other words means that you place very high value on the distributor’s work, much higher than for work put into the physical goods market. In a way, this weakens the economy because it favours one group arbitrarily at the expense of the rest. Media distribution is a parasitic profession and I’ll shed no tear if they all go out of business tomorrow.
SomeAsian

Anyone else but me not really care about this obscure writer?

But, because he has reached out to the community, I think I may buy one of his books. Provided they are interesting of course.
- Guest 123
  
  “Implied Spaces” is nice.
- whatever
  
  I’ve been reading his books as they came out for the last 20 years. The quality of his writing is undeniable and he tends to create completely new realities for each book (as opposed to writing endless sequels).
SomeAsian

Anyone else but me not really care about this obscure writer?

But, because he has reached out to the community, I think I may buy one of his books. Provided they are interesting of course.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=616967907 Si Mccabe

http://shop.ebay.co.uk/i.html?_nkw=Walter+Jon+Williams+Angel+Station&_sacat=0&_odkw=Walter+Jon+Williams&_osacat=0&_trksid=p3286.c0.m270.l1313 plenty here for angel station
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http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=616967907 Si Mccabe

http://shop.ebay.co.uk/i.html?_nkw=Walter+Jon+Williams+Days+of+Atonement&_sacat=0&_odkw=Walter+Jon+Williams+Angel+Station&_osacat=0&_trksid=p3286.c0.m270.l1313 more for sale here. Nop cash so I can’t buy any for him.
Whatever

Did he use a typewriter to type those ?

I mean, these books must be ancient if he doesn’t even have a WP51 copy of it somewhere.

And even if he did use a typewriter the original A4 pages (just throw them through a copier) would be much easier to scan than a book or a paperback..

And who throws away their own originals ?

Weird….
- Anonymous
  
  In the book world the original copy is not the published copy. There are such people who are called “editors” and their job is to check the original and to make changes and corrections. So a book can go through several versions before it reaches a stage good enough to be published.
  
  Editors are a more rare breed these days when they often like to publish directly to max their profit. This causes authors problems when their published book can contain errors leading to some “my editor did not do his/her job” embarrassment.
  
  So the best copy is always what got printed.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=616967907 Si Mccabe

All books above are for sale at varying prices from 99p on EBay.
Em

He should just outsource the work to Somali pirates. I’m sure they all know how to type 100WPM.
Em

He should just outsource the work to Somali pirates. I’m sure they all know how to type 100WPM.
polbel

I’m set up to scan a cubic foot of books to ocr’d pdf in an 8 hour shift, can cut a 600-page book in 15 seconds. send in the obscure authors…

this week i’m building a 24-core workstation to step-up production of recognition. because doctors need their paper boooks converted to ebooks even when they are 11 x 17 inches.
http://www.pirateparty.org.uk A Robinson

Does anyone care abut this guy? YES! His book “Hardwired” is a favourite of mine, if you like William Gibson (or if you thought Gibson was ok, but a bit inaccessible), I can highly recommend it.

Having seen this on his blog (being a bit of an SF fan, I found it there before I saw the story was covered on Torrentfreak), it’s the scanning/OCR and proofreading that he needs help with, not simply sourcing a copy of the book.
http://twitter.com/TheGift73 Richard Gailey

Should anyone actually want to scan one in the future or just see how to do it, the advise is to try and use a V-shaped bookscanner as opposed to flatbed which will have obvious issues.http://www.atiz.com/resources/how-to-ebook/
Anonymous

Knight moves:
http://bitsnoop.com/walter-jon-williams-33-novels-ss-q6698552.html

But the other two i could not find.
MichaelJ

haha! I like this guy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vAsLneI734
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polbel

@ Richard Gailey nice link. i’ve been looking at optical character recognition for over a quarter of a century. i even built a scanner from discrete parts in 1984. my conclusions for fast, almost-unsupervised effective book scanning: cut the book binding off with a heavy-duty paper cutter. Mine is inexpensive (150$), but does a good job. I put the book in it and after a 10-second adjustment, pull the lever and get 300 free sheets to put in a sheetfeeding scanner (the ones is use now on 2 separate 4-core workstations: b&w 300dpi = 10year-old canon m11029 scsi 11×17 500 sheetfeeding tray. color 24-bit usb2 fujitsu fi-4530c 11×17 100-some sheetfeeding tray). even on 4-core machines, the recognition process from acrobat reader 9 pro extended takes a while. this is the reason for my building 32 GB RAM 24-core dual opteron 6172 workstation wich should cut in half the length of the scanning process and even allow for a second scanner (maybe even a third, each then using 8 cores) on the workstation to double the scanning pipeline from 1 cubic foot to 2 cubic feet of paper books in an 8 hour shift. The books can be rebinded at low cost if the customers insists on keeping a paper copy. Otherwise they are sent to recycling. hope this also helps.
- Anonymous
  
  That’s nothing, mine will even have sex with me…
- http://thegift73.wordpress.com/ Richard Gailey
  
  Glad you liked the link. Sounds like you have a hell of a set up. Do you do this for publishers specifically?
- Glib
  
  2 blocks of wood and a clamp is what we used to OCR textbooks when I was in University. Clamp the book, feed through bandsaw to cut off the binding; makes a perfect cut every time regardless of what blade is installed (though a metal blade does the best job but is a bit slow).
  
  After that, we’d scan them all on the school’s Xerox (only takes like 10 seconds per page) then the raw sheets were fed into OCR software (of which I am not sure the brand, but assuredly it was easy to come by) … thankfully most engineering books have boxes around the diagrams and equations; made OCRing very fast. Turned one $200 textbook into 250+ copies @ about $20 each (would go through ~1 eBayed HP 4xxx series printer per semester).
polbel

@250730cd76d223959e6d068b331ef640:disqus
John Space

WJW is a bro and I fondly remember his Hardwired. Let’s give him a hand.
polbel

@Anonymous: Steve i know it’s you. Your sex life is really warped, i think you should consult professional help. You confuse scanner sex with ebook sex, please seek help at your local strip joint. At least one in eight girls there is studying psychology to solve her personal problems.
polbel

@Anonymous: Steve i know it’s you. Your sex life is really warped, i think you should consult professional help. You confuse scanner sex with ebook sex, please seek help at your local strip joint. At least one in eight girls there is studying psychology to solve her personal problems.
polbel

what if Walter Jon Williams wrote about backups?
planetary
stellar
galactic
clustery

what then?
Anonymous

http://www.filestube.com/search.html?q=Walter+Jon+Williams&select=All not so hard to find not so hard to find
- bang
  
  Except the three titles he is looking for aren’t there, hot shot.
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getoffayaweebassa

this guy is admitting it! prosecute him, cut his internet,sue him. confiscate his computer, trash it, where are the internet police when you need them!.
no, seriously, what a larf, ooooowwww. wat a wag this guy is. may i down one of you books for free kind sir, i will up at least two to one, promise
Anon

And once he has the scans that people made (at a cost of their own time and money / without any monetary incentive), what will he do? He will probably charge money for his “official” copy, while simultaneously sending take-down requests for those that were originally free.

If they were out-of-print to begin with, why not make them available for free? Thus he would not be any better or worse off, financially, and would subsequently gain greater publicity and notoriety.

One thing we find, time and time again, is that those in the old industry have a single-track perspective on the world we live in today. Their way of making $$$ wont make you any today. He’s headed in the right direction, but still doesn’t get it.
- Marcus
  
  Looks like he’s not the only one who makes up stories.
Anonymous

Dude makes a lot of sense when you think about it.
total-anon.us.tc
XenonofArcticus

WJW is a fantastic author, and I applaud him.

I have a copy of Days of Atonement here — great book. I don’t have any feasible way to scan and OCR it though. Too bad.
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Lee

Now lets do that with all mediums at the propper scale.
- https://profiles.google.com/adam.k.wise Spc 4
  
  Who reads books?
- https://profiles.google.com/adam.k.wise Spc 4
  
  Who reads books?
- https://profiles.google.com/adam.k.wise Spc 4
  
  Who reads books?
AlyssaBlindy

Here’s an interesting concept. The idea of copyright was truly created by umans, whereas other “crimes” are also in the world of other species. For example, a dog will actually take food from another dog, (and obviously its not a copy of that said food) and the dog is therefore stealing food from the first dog. Animals often eat their own children, for example, some spiders eat their own children. Animals kill each other, and animals also do “rape” in order to get pleasure and because it is a natural instinct. These crimes are al natural things that occur in both humans and animals. If other animals were able to make copies of things, they wouldn’t care; they would all be happy to have their things, and to share with the other animals in the wild or wherever. So why is it that us, as humans, decide to put stupid things such as patent and copyright on our creations? Nature even encourages the flow of things. Things go as they want in nature, and here we are, controlling amounts of unlimited resources. We do not care about our limited resources so much; we are not evenreally trying to get hydrogen cars and other environmentally friendly forms of energy as much as we should be. We spend more time worrying about the copies made of unlimited resource than the selling of our limitted resources. So, what does this say about the human race? We are control freaks! Then, look at the organizations and “associations” who are trying to control everything with a monotary value. Stupid, corrupt society. OUr society is super corrupt, and we need to do something about it.
AlyssaBlindy

Here’s an interesting concept. The idea of copyright was truly created by umans, whereas other “crimes” are also in the world of other species. For example, a dog will actually take food from another dog, (and obviously its not a copy of that said food) and the dog is therefore stealing food from the first dog. Animals often eat their own children, for example, some spiders eat their own children. Animals kill each other, and animals also do “rape” in order to get pleasure and because it is a natural instinct. These crimes are al natural things that occur in both humans and animals. If other animals were able to make copies of things, they wouldn’t care; they would all be happy to have their things, and to share with the other animals in the wild or wherever. So why is it that us, as humans, decide to put stupid things such as patent and copyright on our creations? Nature even encourages the flow of things. Things go as they want in nature, and here we are, controlling amounts of unlimited resources. We do not care about our limited resources so much; we are not evenreally trying to get hydrogen cars and other environmentally friendly forms of energy as much as we should be. We spend more time worrying about the copies made of unlimited resource than the selling of our limitted resources. So, what does this say about the human race? We are control freaks! Then, look at the organizations and “associations” who are trying to control everything with a monotary value. Stupid, corrupt society. OUr society is super corrupt, and we need to do something about it.
AlyssaBlindy

Here’s an interesting concept. The idea of copyright was truly created by umans, whereas other “crimes” are also in the world of other species. For example, a dog will actually take food from another dog, (and obviously its not a copy of that said food) and the dog is therefore stealing food from the first dog. Animals often eat their own children, for example, some spiders eat their own children. Animals kill each other, and animals also do “rape” in order to get pleasure and because it is a natural instinct. These crimes are al natural things that occur in both humans and animals. If other animals were able to make copies of things, they wouldn’t care; they would all be happy to have their things, and to share with the other animals in the wild or wherever. So why is it that us, as humans, decide to put stupid things such as patent and copyright on our creations? Nature even encourages the flow of things. Things go as they want in nature, and here we are, controlling amounts of unlimited resources. We do not care about our limited resources so much; we are not evenreally trying to get hydrogen cars and other environmentally friendly forms of energy as much as we should be. We spend more time worrying about the copies made of unlimited resource than the selling of our limitted resources. So, what does this say about the human race? We are control freaks! Then, look at the organizations and “associations” who are trying to control everything with a monotary value. Stupid, corrupt society. OUr society is super corrupt, and we need to do something about it.
https://profiles.google.com/adam.k.wise Spc 4

Who reads books?
AlyssaBlindy

And I am not saying things like murder aren’t criminal, they are. I am trying to say that humans make crimes out of things that we have invented, (filesharing in particular), crimes which would not exist anywhere else because animals can’t copy their habitats and such, and even if they could, they would be happy with the copy. I guess my point is that us, as humans, are not happy with things because of all of this valueless money, this economy that must stay in place. Other animals do not have economies. That’s all. And sorry for my misspellings.
Cad

i’m a pirate, not a hipster.
Nork

Book Nerds!
Oo Oo let me rush out and buy these books and spend loads of time scanning and editing them for you. Im sure some chumpty dumpty is doing as we speak…
Geneweaver

hehe i have all three and more then one copy
Deville

He doesn’t have the manuscript of his books on his computer?
Deville

He doesn’t have the manuscript of his books on his computer?
Truther

“Apparently a few of my books were so obscure that they flew under the
radar of even the pirates! You can’t imagine how astounded I was when I
discovered this”

Can he still stand up with such a big head?
- geruhghh
  
  Perhaps he was being sarcastic?
- geruhghh
  
  Perhaps he was being sarcastic?
Death

I *love* WJW (have done since his first release). I think I own a copy of every book he’s had published. I’ve never gotten on the ebook bandwagon (for non-tech books), I just like being able to hold a book, rather than read the pages on a screen. Sadly, there are a lot more obscure writers whose work has practically been lost to time (many authors published by the long-defunct Leisure Books come to mind right off) – to my knowledge, very few of Leisure Books’ publishing have ever been bought or re-published.
Death

I *love* WJW (have done since his first release). I think I own a copy of every book he’s had published. I’ve never gotten on the ebook bandwagon (for non-tech books), I just like being able to hold a book, rather than read the pages on a screen. Sadly, there are a lot more obscure writers whose work has practically been lost to time (many authors published by the long-defunct Leisure Books come to mind right off) – to my knowledge, very few of Leisure Books’ publishing have ever been bought or re-published.
Slamacow

He just made it harder to find it online through search engines…
Vince J

lmao, shitty arrogant book writer that thinks all file sharing is done by idiots……”my autograph” …. sigh
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Snorkie

http://www.sffebooks.com
nuff said
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