Black Star Passes
Thanks for Scott Farquhar for bringing us another work from the public domain. He’s compiled three tales by John W. Campbell into one anthology called Black Star Passes:
Follow along with Arcot, Morey, and Wade as they discover a revolutionary form of propulsion, visit our neighboring planets, and go up against aliens from a rogue solar system that passes close to our own. These three stories (Piracy Preferred, Solarite, and The Black Star Passes) were originally published as a serial in Amazing Stories magazine.



July 16th, 2008 at 11:50 am
Nice. I’m glad to see more of these Pub Domain type works showing up here. (where might be a good place to find these in text? I might try to record one)
However I notice this (and a few others) that are Pub Domain are not in the Pub Domain category in the search. does the system only allow for single category association?
July 16th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
Look for texts from http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page and http://manybooks.net/
July 16th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
Laith,
Yep. Just one classification.
July 20th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
If you are interested in recording and new to this kind of thing, Lathrop, you might go and check out librivox.org. Cheers!
July 28th, 2008 at 6:37 am
Apologies on the slight delay in the next episode, for those who might be eager. My neighbors were having their windows replaced over the weekend and the very noisy work was happening during those times I had intended to record. It should only be a day or two…
September 23rd, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Unfortunately I find myself in the difficult position of needing to apologize for another delay. There’s some good news to this apology, though. The main reason (aside from my having a 6 day work week in September and October) is that I’m currently composing music for the upcoming 2-hour, 6-part Arbiter Chronicles episode which has a planned release schedule of every 2 weeks starting this Friday (9/26/08). For those of you who stumbled upon my readings here because of the work with Prometheus, then you’ll very much enjoy the coming story. And hopefully you’ll enjoy the music!
As far as Black Star Passes goes, the release schedule will likely be every 2 weeks for the next 2 or 3 episodes and then I should be back on track with weekly. Thanks for your patience, and thanks for listening. Feedback is always welcome!
October 12th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
Sometimes life very spectacularly tells you when you are doing too much. I have made the very tough decision to step away from composing for PRT. A fantastic (and certainly currently less stressed and overworked) composer has jumped in to allow Contents Under Pressure to get to you without even a hiccup.
The good news for Black Star Passes, though, is that we should be back to weekly from this point on. In fact, I’m going to try and squeeze in 2 a week for a run so that the book will be complete before the end of the year.
November 7th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
We’re a bit more than halfway done!