/lit/ - Literature

>>12471925
>Tigana
When Dianora first appears. Every Brandin scene is GOAT.
>Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
When Strange first appears. Every Gentleman with the Thistledown Hair is GOAT
The strength of these two books almost entirely revolve around the villain characters. Also, both authors start out quite purple and towards the end they probably get tired of the purple prose and it becomes more of a regular story.

>>10042027
Every old magazine should be searched on archive.org and rutracker and thepiratebay first. Then you check myanonamouse and bibliotik and all the usual places for books I have described multiple times.

If you find a magazine on archive.org (https://archive.org/details/pulpmagazinearchive?and[]=new%20worlds) or some random issue uploaded somewhere you should search for the filename so you can torrent the whole collection instead of one url. So you just found the new worlds magazine on archive.org, you check up the filename (example New Worlds #004v02 (1949)) and google that. if you had done that you would now know that this URL existed: http://archive.is/ppCtB now that you know that that URL existed of the defunct kat.cr YOU NOW KNOW THAT THERE IS AN EXISTING TORRENT (whether seeded or not). Torrents tend to share DHT and peers which means that just because kat.cr is down it doesn't mean that the torrent is no longer seeded, someone may have uploaded the torrent file somewhere else meaning that there are still seeders and peers around and who can find the torrent on other torrent sites. Now you can search via a DHT searchengine or check the big torrent sites first (so we check TPB) for the name of the BIG torrent (because there is no torrent of just new worlds on TPB - you've already checked that!) bam wam, there is the big defunct kat.cr torrent on TPB named the same thing as the kat torrent! https://thepiratebay.org/search/sF%20Fantasy%20Magazines%20Megatorrent/0/99/0

Now you just pray for seeders. How do you know if someone is seeding all parts of the torrent? If the availability is >=1.0. If there's not enough seeders or all of them partial you will need to get it off archive.org, but in general getting stuff off a torrent is easier and you get everything at once (unless the DL speed is shit)

If there is no magazine torrent at all try finding the good individual short stories published in collections and where they are (and then you go through that book finding diagram that I've posted multiple times).