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*******                The Past Through Tomorrow                      ******
*******                   Robert A Heinlein                           ******

Book Supplier : Zophar                Release Date : 21/10/2000
Scanner       : SeaGull               NO. Of Disks : 01
Packager      : Zaphod                Format       : txt/html/lit

Proofers      : DwimRodel             Cover art included: Y
: wOrlock               Quality control   : SeaGull, Zaphod
: Mr Intrad             Release Number    : 23
: Jack Frost
: SeaGull

Jacket Blurb

It’s been a full third of a century since Robert A. Heinlein began to
write fiction about an imaginary-but highly possible-future. His most recent
novel, TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE (1973), is the capstone of this great life’s
work.
As the stories poured forth, Heinlein created a gigantic chart-filling an
entire wall of his study-to keep track of his future world and the progress
of its people and civilizations.
Now, for the first time in paperback, here are all the future-history
tales written to date, arranged according to the great chart-accompanied by
the chart itself. It is a landmark in science fiction.

The New Age library proudly presents this major work of Science Fiction.

What's In Progress?

Here's the list of projects on the go. The letter codes before each
title is interpreted according to the following:

-S means the raw scan has been done
-P means all we have is a paperback copy, and the test scan showed a lot of
errors. We're looking for the hardcover to scan it before we inflict it on
our valiant proof reading team.
-C means we scanned it from various sources, and the scan is of mixed quality
(applies to collections, anthologies, series, etc...)
-I means scanning is in progress
-Q means we have a raw scan, but there are quality issues that will slow
release
-O means the raw text, or at least part of it, has been sent out to proof
readers
-F means all parts of the raw text have been returned by proof readers, and
the text is awaiting final proof reading

P	The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You by Harry Harrison
I	Telempath by Spider Robinson
P	Time Pressure by Spider Robinson
SQ	Night of Power by Spider Robinson
SO	Gateway (and the other four Heechee books) by Frederick Pohl
I	Time Enough for Love by Robert A Heinlein
F	A Jungle of Stars by Jack L Chalker
P	The Well World Series (all 5 of 'em) by Jack L Chalker
SO (Q?)	Rocket Ship Galileo by Robert A Heinlein
F	Nightfall by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg
SO	Battle Circle (released as three novels) by Piers Anthony
IO	Cities in Flight (four novels) by James Blish
SO	The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
I	The Genesis Machine by James P Hogan
F	The Avatar by Poul Anderson
F	Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov
SOQ	Sixth Column by Robert A Heinlein
SO	The Best of Frederick Pohl, edited by Lester Del Rey
SO	The Best of Murray Leinster, edited by J.J.
SO	Assorted short stories and novellas by Alfred Bester
SO	Assorted short stories and novellas by Murray Leinster
S	Assorted short stories and novellas by Roger Zelazny
S	Assorted short stories by Spider Robinson
SO	The Proteus Operation by James P Hogan
I	Code of the Lifemaker by James P Hogan
SO	The Ringworld Throne, by Larry Niven

By the time you're reading this, it may be a bit out of date, but at
least you'll have an idea of what's going on. We're going to stop picking on
Larry Niven after we release Footfall (somebody else is taking care of
picking on him:)) except we may scan Oath of Fealty in the (somewhat) near
future.
SeaGull found a big box of old issues of Analog, and F&SF at a garage
sale ($5 he paid for 'em!) and we'll pick some good shorts out of those, if
'Gull can figure a way to get a decent scan out of 40 year old newsprint.
There may be a bit of a pause in releases while we work on The Past
Through Tomorrow. The raw scan was 1.8 megs, so it's a bit large, and is
using a significant amount of our proof reader resources and time. It's worth
it.

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We need still more proof readers. E-mail zopharnal@hotmail.com for details.
No fringe benefits, no glory(well, some glory, but damn little) just a lot of
hard work.

Some of our earlier releases were not quite up to standard. Look for updated
and corrected versions in the future, with better cover scans.

SeaGull has spent the last three days evaluating OCR software, and evaluating
our scanning/proofreading procdures, in an effort to reduce errors. As a side
effect, he reduced the work required to produce a scan greatly. SeaGull
shelled out a little over 1000 bucks (Canadian...about $700US these days) of
his own money for two new scanners, a pile of hardcover SF books, and a nice
big 19' monitor for proofreading.
Unfortunately, the scanning process involves destroying the original paper
copy, and only works well with hardocvers, so we plan to haunt every used
bookstore between here and Montreal to find all those old classics. If you
have any old hardcover SF books you want to see in etext format, and don't
want back, e-mail any member of NAL.
We will be finishing ongoing projects that have been started from
scanned paperbacks. If you are a proofreader, finish up what you have and
send it back. New projects will done by the new procedure, which results in
less than one OCR error per page of scanned text (we can nearly release the
raw OCR text as the finished product!). Proof readers will be e-mailed
complete works (unless it's huge) in the future.

Releases so far:

Voyage from Yesteryear by James P Hogan
The Gripping Hand by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Spirals (Short Story) by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Double Star by Robert A Heinlein
The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Callahan's Lady by Spider Robinson
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A Heinlein
The Door Into Summer by Robert A Heinlein
Neutron Star (Short Story) by Larry Niven
Relic of the Empire (Short Story) by Larry Niven
Friday by Robert A Heinlein
Callahan's Legacy by Spider Robinson
The Stainless Steel Rat Goes to Hell by Harry Harrison
Neutron Star (Short Story Collection) by Larry Niven
A Gift From Earth by Larry Niven
Tales of Known Space by Larry Niven
The Ringworld Engineers by Larry Niven
Footfall by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Orphans of the Sky by Robert A Heinlein
Farnham's Freehold by Robert A Heinlein
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr
Beyond the Blue Event Horizon by Frederik Pohl

Note: We Do Not Mail our releases, so don't ask, please

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Last Updated [10/14/00] by SeaGull

FAQs:

Q:	What do you mean by quality?
A:	Many (if not most) of the scans we've seen are unformatted raw text files, fresh from the scanner. OCR errors make the reading experience much less enjoyable. Our releases are spell checked, proof read, and compared to the original for an absolute minimum of errors. In addition, cover scans will be included with each release.

Q:	Can I download this file if I don't own a paper copy?
A:	No. Buy the book ya cheap bastid. The e-book versions are intended solely as a back-up copy for the personal use of those entitled to have a copy (ie: those who have made sure the author got paid). If you don't have the paper copy, delete this file now.

Q:	Isn't scanning, proof-reading, etc a hell of a lot of work?
A:	Yes, it is. If you want to help NAL, contact Zophar at zopharnal@hotmail.com. Put NAL as the subject of your e-mail, or it will be ignored.
NAL is looking for members with scanners, a large SF library, a good OCR proggy (which we can supply), and some time to dedicate to preserving classic SF. If you don't own a scanner, you can still help as a proof reader. Mail Zophar. We are particularly interested in proof readers who own the dead tree editions (ie: paper) of ongoing projects, since it helps enormously to have the paper copy as a reference when proof reading (see the 'What's next for release' list below.) Proof readers will be e-mailed approximately 100 pages of the raw OCR text, and are expected to remove page headers and footers, spell check, correct OCR errors, correct formatting errors, and return the proof read text in a timely manner (generally within 7 days of getting it). If you have a favourite book you would like to see in e-text format, mail Zophar with a request. Requests that are accompanied by a proof read text file will be given priority..:)

Q:	Where can I get NAL releases?
A:	Try #bookwarez on DalNet or GalaxyNet, or alt.binaries.e-books on usenet. All NAL releases are regularly posted to usenet. After what happened to the Bookwarez site a while back, we'll pass on www.