totally weird description of a book

[Ann aka Iftcan]

I'm not sure exactly what this means for this book, and, since the book was written well after 1923, its even more of a question. How do we handle this?

[Cait]

(You didn't actually link to the book....)

[Ann aka Iftcan]

Sorry, thought that I did. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16...

[Lobstergirl]

Also weird that an edition like Bibliolife would have the most ratings. You would expect the Ace edition to. Something funky going on.

[Emy]

The blurb is a standard one for OCR books. I agree, this isn't a pre-1923 book, so it's inaccurate as well as useless! Earliest edition I could find was c1960ish.

[Lobstergirl]

Alan Nourse was born in 1928, so those public domain editions can't be right.

[Lobstergirl]

Although Wiki says: "His novel Star Surgeon has been recorded as a public domain audio book at LibriVox"

[vicki_girl]

If the copyright wasn't renewed, it could be in the public domain. Gutenberg has it (see the transcriber's note following the title and illustration):

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18492/...

The blurb is probably just a standard default one for all their public domain books.

[Lobstergirl]

I changed it to the default description. (Which seems like a fairly weak description, but I'll leave it alone.)

[Ann aka Iftcan]

According to my copy of the book, the original copywrite is 1959. I added mine in, since it wasn't showing at all.

I was just seriously confused by that really weird description. And I didn't know if I should change it or not.

Hence my question about it. (and sorry about not hitting paste with the link.)