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News item dated 1 December 2024
Once upon a time John Clute had a vision of what he thought of as the SF Encyclopedia Archive Basement, a vast store of out-of-copyright texts that could be linked from our entries, making it possible to consult often hard-to-find novels and stories presented in digital form with searchable text. It was too huge a job for us, of course, but this is exactly what the invaluable Project Gutenberg has been doing for many years. We are now linking systematically to Gutenberg author pages: close to 1,400 SFE entries currently have such hyperlinks in their final links section. More will be added as we notice omissions and as further works enter the public domain.