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Science fiction archive getting nuked.

Um.

We've got, like, a day and a half. Surely someone can do something about this?

Comments

[mirrorshard.livejournal.com]

All of the texts are available via the Wayback Machine (http://web.archive.org/web/20060414170012/http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/archive.html).

The most recent version they've got is from April 2006, but there's a lot there, and the few I tried were full-text, so the lot should be.

[fjm.livejournal.com]

I doubt they can be pressurised. They just don't get it.

[yendi]

True. The current Sci-Fi Channel scope doesn't include anything as silly as keeping low-cost text science fiction stories online, when they could instead give us pro-wrestling, something that's clearly much more aligned with their identity.

[megarandom.livejournal.com]

That whole wrestling thing pisses me off beyond all reason.

[arkady.livejournal.com]

That's not the case. SciFi's Craig Engler has made a statement on the BoingBoing story:

"Just a quick response to your note about the Sci Fiction archive. The hosting costs are not an issue but there are rights issues around various stories that crop up from time to time. Given how few people visit the Sci Fiction archive it makes more sense to remove it rather than have someone continue to track the rights to all the stories year after year. For instance, although zillions of people may link to Jury Service, in May we recorded only 48 complete visits to it (by that I mean visits to all 4 HTML pages of the story)."

[fivemack.livejournal.com]

It is 53MB long and can be collected by running

wget -r -np http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/archive.html

on the Unix machine of your choice, but I am too scared of the wrath of publishers to put my copy up on the Net-at-large.

[elmyra.livejournal.com]

I was hoping someone would post wget instructions - it's been forever since I last used it. Thanks.

[sci.livejournal.com]

Cheers for that! wget was my first thought too. Got it running now. :3

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

P2P it?

[dyfferent.livejournal.com]

I am sure that an offline browser such as NetVampire (as was, haven't used it in yonks) could snag it all fairly painlessly.

[exmoor-cat.livejournal.com]

A clear example of Use It Or Lose It