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I don't know if anyone else still has a Rocket E-Book, but I've still got mine, and every so often I google the old girl, only to find less and less trace that she was ever out there, helping bookworms to develop their upper body strength... From time to time I even use it - for example to read the online Doctor Who books the BBC has been so generous to make available in the past.

It was thanks to the Rocket eBook that Silver Age Books went from being the one-off publisher of Professor Challenger in Space to being an ongoing project. If I remember correctly, Quiet, the Tin Can Brains Are Hunting! was uploaded to the online Rocket Library within an hour or two of being written.

It wasn't long after that, though, that the Rocket Library was shut down - flagrant copyright violations aside, the company that bought Nuvomedia didn't see much point in encouraging people to download free books.

And so, in tribute to the light that died, here, if there's time to do the conversions, and as long as we have room, we'll make new issues of our magazines available in the Rocket eBook format.

Theaker's Quarterly Fiction #9 (Rocket eBook version)