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