Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 22:44:48 -0500 From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu> To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> 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? > Exorcism anyone? "I cast thee from the works of our beloved James Schmitz" "Begone I say; begone to the depths of hackdom from which you came " mjw