As reported by I09, the University of Iowa, right in the Midwest of the United States, has inherited a huge collection of science fiction short stories and novels. They were donated by Allan Lewis, a sci-fi reader his entire life.
The University of Iowa is fast becoming the go-to source for archaic science fiction literature and will soon compete with the collection held by MIT. A couple years ago it also received a large donation of sci-fi from James "Rusty" Hevelin.
This is great, but does it hold: Mesaerion: The Best Science Fiction Short Stories 1800-1849?
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