Ninety-five (or 100) years is a very long time for copyrights to last. But Olaf Stapledon saw a much longer future for us in Last and First Men (reviewed here and here). His book tells a story of successive human species over the next 2 billion years.
Stapledon died in 1950, and his work is already public domain most places outside the US. Tomorrow a copy in Australia will be among the first books to be relisted in my new books listing, finally free for all. #PublicDomainDayCountdown
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This concludes my #PublicDomainDayCountdown to 2026. As always, there are many more interesting works than I could fit in my series, but I hope you found interesting the ones I chose (and the writings I linked to about them). You can find more works about to join the public domain discussed at some other places I linked to over the course of my series.
I hope to say more on my blog tomorrow. For now, I look forward to the new works in the public domain, and all that you all will do with them!
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