Some of the greatest authors of scientific discipline fabrication and fantasyhave put words on paper — only to see those give-and-take lose or destroyed . Beforethere were computers , manuscripts got burned or suffer in the mail all the fourth dimension . Here are the far-famed author whose books were lose , destroyed , misplaced orerased .
really , some of these books were rediscover , year oreven decennium afterwards . But many of these are books you ’ll never be able to record .
Top image : Paris in the Twentieth Century , art byGilles Roman .
L. Frank Baum was best known as a children ’s writer and theauthor of TheWonderfulWizard of Oz , but he also pen books for adult . Four of his adultnovelshave been lose , apparentlybyhis publishing house . The lost books admit OurMarried Life , Johnson , The Mystery of Bonita , and Molly Oodle . Lyman Frank Brown ’s son claimed in hisbiography of his father that his female parent , Maud Baum , burnt the unpublishedmanuscripts — but many people speculate that he lie , after being cut out ofher will . In addition to the four lose novel , many of Baum ’s short narration andmovie scripts have also been lost . Most of his early scripts were ruin ina theater fire in 1880 .
After the intended publisher failed to publishStarWays(Later retitled The Peregrine),Poul Anderson ’s broker proffer it to Avalon . Before publication — and much toAnderson ’s distress — they tailor the noveldown to 50,000 row . No copy of the original manuscript exists , so we’llnever know just how much was change , or what go on in the sections thatwere cut .
In 1972 , Asimovlisted12 short stories thathad been rejected by publishers and then lost during the thirties and 40s . Thesestories let in “ Cosmic Corkscrew ” , his first brusque story , “ This IrrationalPlanet ” , “ Paths of Destiny ” , “ Knossos in Its Glory ” , “ The Decline and Fall”,”Life Before Birth ” , “ The Brothers ” , “ The Oak ” , “ Masks ” , and “ Big Game ” . “ BigGame ” was after found and published in the AnthologyBeforethe Golden Age . And Asimov later on realise that “ The weapon system ” hadactually been published under a pseudonym .
Thanks to Robert Louis Stevenson ’s married woman , we will never knowwhat the first order of payment ofTheStrange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydewas like . Stevenson write thefirst draught of the famous novel inless than aweek , sometimes writing 10,000 words a day . His wife dismissed the Christian Bible as“a quire full of gimcrackery ” and destroyed the Holy Writ in a fire . That did n’t stophim from rewriting the book — reportedly in three days — and it went on to bea bestseller .
A few years after his death , Zelazny’sagentwas looking through box of papers in a warehouse when she cameacross an unpublished holograph foracompleted mainstream fiction novel , TheDead Man ’s Brother . He had publish the Good Book in 1971 and decided to publishit afterward , although he never returned to the story and it was found in a boxmarked “ Save , no submission at this time at Roger ’s request . ”
The novelParisin the twentieth Centurywas thought to have been destroyed during WWII , like so many other great whole caboodle of graphics across Europe . mirthfully for us , Jean Vernefound it in a bole in his garage in 1991 . This novel was compose in 1863 andis lay out in Paris in the 1960s . His publisher refused to publish the book becausehebelievedits claim about the futurity were too unconvincing , although to modernreaders it seems eerily accurate .
Thebeginningsof a collaboration between these two giants of phantasy wasdiscoveredin 2009 . This was locomote to be a al-Qur’an about the meaning of language . Themanuscript was never finished .
One recently regain incomplete short story was never intendedto be finished . Dahlwrotethe first one-half of “ The Eyes of Mr. Croaker”for The Do - It - Yourself Children ’s Storybook . The book was neverpublished , and it was long thought that the manuscript had been lost . In 2010,itreappearedon ebay .
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In 1939,RobertHeinlein‘s For Us , the Livingwasconsidered too racy to publish . It was rejected , and then miss / destroyed bythe family . After find references to the work , Robert Jamestracked downaphotocopy of a photocopy of the retyped original manuscript . The miss book waspublishedat last in 2003 .
There are dozens of lost , unpublished , or never completedStar Trek related to books out there . This webpagelists themand tell the history for each of them . There ’s a band of interesting materialthat has either been destroyed or will never see the light of sidereal day — includingmore script in the “ Yesterday Saga ” by A. C. Crispin . Ina 2003 interview , Crispin said that she was putting complete touches on a fresh trilogy , but in2004 it was denote that the projection had been offset .
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