Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 22:41:25 -0500 To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> From: Samuel Lubell <lubell at cais.com> Subject: [WSFA] Re: Won't read these . . . Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> At 10:26 PM 3/20/02 -0500, mjw wrote: >>Michael Walsh wrote: >>> If having three writers write a sequel to a classic book is what it = >takes = >>> to have said classic reissued, then either the sf reading public is in = >sad = >>> shape or the publisher is sadly deluded. Or maybe both. Feh. >> >>It would be nice if someone could go back in time and rescue Schmitz's >>original, completed manuscript for the sequel from the fire that >>destroyed it ... that would be a worthy experiment for a time machine. > >Unfortunately Eric Flint would want to "fix" it. > >Hard for the dead to object when they suddenly have a co-author. Yes, but in that circumstance, which one is the ghostwriter?