The Gutenberg Science Fiction Collection

Patrick Vera called my attention to the freely downlodable Gutenberg SF CD:

"The Project Gutenberg Science Fiction Bookshelf CD" is a long title for a small thematic excerpt from the wealth of public domain works of Project Gutenberg. 165 SF ebooks have been extracted in all available formats. The base for the CD is formed by the Science Fiction (Bookshelf) page of the Project Gutenberg Wiki. The page is frequently updated by volunteers so visit it once in a while for new ebooks added.

While there are many books in the collection I've never heard of, there are some definite winners:

• Edgar Rice Burroughs' A Princess of Mars, Gods of Mars, Warlord of Mars, Thuvia, Maid of Mars, The Chessmen of Mars, plus Pellucidar and others.
• Karel Čapek's R.U.R.
• Lester Del Rey's Badge of Infamy, Police Your Planet, and The Sky Is Falling.
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World.
• A. Merrit's The Metal Monster and The Moon Pool.
• Andre Norton's Voodoo Planet and other books
• Alan E. Nourse's Star Surgeon.
• H. Beam Piper: everything he ever published, except the books still in copyright (this, to me justifies the whole project, frankly: Piper should have been recognized as one of the giants of the field).
• Jules Verne: several different versions, in English and in French, of many of his works.
• H.G. Wells: The First Men in the Moon, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Time Machine, and The War of the Worlds