8/31/2023 0 Comments Open road integrated media![]() Howard’s Conan series, but with a better sense of humor. The series chronicles the adventures of two sword-wielding heroes called Fafhrd and The Gray Mouser, the former being a giant barbarian and the latter a diminutive thief. Swords in the Mist, Swords against Wizardry ), which I remember reading in junior high. He was a pioneer of the sword and sorcery genre with his Lankhmar series of “Swords” novels (e.g. Leiber is a Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of science fiction, fantasy, and horror novels. The English-language rights for most of Laxness’s novels are held by Vintage Books. Open Road only publishes one Laxness e-book, The Atom Station (1948), which I did not care for. Icelandic author Halldór Laxness won the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature. The former is a pretty good novel about a secret utopia in the mountains of Tibet. ![]() Open Road offers e-books of six of Hilton’s novels, including his best known works Lost Horizon (1933) and Goodbye, Mr. Open Road has it, along with four other Grady books, including (2011), a recent sequel. Grady is the author of the Condor series of spy novels, beginning with Six Days of the Condor(1974), upon which the Robert Redford film Three Days of the Condor was based. A while back I picked these up for free, but they usually go for about ten dollars each. His personal convictions and idealism are revealed in The World As I See It and Out of My Later Years. Books like Essays in Science and Essays in Humanism cover the wide breadth of Einstein’s thought. Several collections of Einstein’s writings are published by Open Road, including his landmark work The Theory of Relativity. Perhaps there are rights issues standing in the way, or maybe those less critically acclaimed works just haven’t been deemed worthy of resurrection. I hope Open Road eventually expands this line to include Buck’s more obscure, farther afield works. I have another handful waiting to be read, including This Proud Heart (1938) and Peony (1948). All but China Flight are available from Open Road. Old Books by Dead Guys has reviewed eight Buck books: East Wind: West Wind (1930), The Good Earth (1931), Sons (1933), A House Divided(1935), Dragon Seed (1942), The Promise (1943), China Flight (1943), and The Living Reed (1963). Open Road sells 29 e-books of Buck’s best-known works, mostly her historical novels of China. After years of looking for her novels in used book stores, it was a relief to find her works available in e-book format, often offered for very low prices. ![]() Buck who first turned me on to Open Road. Open Road sells e-books of 33 Anderson novels, including the sci-fi Harvest of Stars trilogy and the King of Ys series, set in ancient Rome and cowritten with his wife Karen Anderson. In the latter category, I have purchased The Golden Horn, book one in the Last Viking Trilogy, but haven’t read it yet. This is barely the tip of the iceberg as far as what they offer, however, so go browse their website.Īnderson was named a Grand Master of science fiction, and he also wrote historical novels. What I like about Open Road is that they offer what I would call “medium-old” books that is, books that are too old to be considered current literature, yet too young to be copyright free.īelow is a list of a few of Open Road’s authors that I’ve sampled, often by taking advantage of their Early Bird Books deals. ![]() Open Road publishes some e-book reprints of public domain classics, which they sell for 99 cents and often give away, but I prefer to just get those for free from Project Gutenberg. Buyer beware: the purpose behind such generosity is often to hook you on the first book in a series, as they have recently addicted me to Clifford D. Each day they offer about a half dozen different e-book titles for two or three bucks apiece. If you haven't signed up for it, you should. Open Road has a “daily deal” email blast called Early Bird Books, which I look forward to every day. Their selection is wide, with over 10,000 titles now available, and their prices are always reasonable. It’s possible they may publish some first-run titles as well, as many of their authors are still alive and kicking. The company’s business model seems to be to buy up the electronic rights for previously published print books, both fiction and nonfiction, and rerelease them as e-books. Open Road Integrated Media was founded in 2009 by a former executive from HarperCollins. A great source for “medium-old” books (and more)Īs I’ve done once before and hope to do more of in the future, I'm devoting today’s post to one of my favorite publishers. ![]()
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