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1. Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Jan-2023 20:40:07 UTC Robert McNees

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   • Charlie Stross

   @cstross Was Manly Wade Wellman’s “Sherlock Holmes’s War of the Worlds” written with the permission of the various estates?

   • Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 02-Jan-2023 20:40:15 UTC Charlie Stross

     So, copyright in 2023 …

     The last Sherlock Holmes stories of Arthur Conan Doyle (note: not the movies!) are coming out of copyright.

     And H. G. Wells came out of copyright a few years ago. (Again: not the movies!)

     So …

     "Sherlock Holmes and the case of the Martian Death Tripod" is something you can write straight from the shoulder now, no need to pretend it's satire.

     The Martian invaders are, of course, led by a merciless blood-drinking emperor called the Elon ...