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As one of the saddest plots, look at the below article, showing the lack of availability of books from the middle of the 20th century. http://www.theatlantic.c

• pgy 12y ago
  In my boyhood I had been fascinated by science fiction short stories, many of them I found in anthologies published in the middle of the 20th century in America. Being born in a non English-speaking country, I soon run out of reading material for translations were hard to find. When I learned English (and connected to the Internet the first time) I tried to find more from my favourite authors but with little luck. When talking about the disappearance of books, Isaac Asimov's Great SF Stories anthology series[1] always comes to my mind. Around 2006 I spent a whole week searching for it - of the 25 books I managed to find only four or five. Nevertheless, I assembled a pretty big (and pretty illegal) collection of nearly-impossible-to-find sci-fi stories during my days in high school, but lost it when my computer went wrong a few years later. (I am sure I could have recovered them somehow, but back then I had no idea.) Last year I tried to reassemble my collection but I gave up, it would have been too much work. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Isaac_Asimov%27s_Great_SF_Stories_anthology_series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Isaac_Asimov%27s_Grea...