Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 11:46:33 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Anvil & Flint
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Sam pierce chiseled:

>At 11:57 3/20/02 -0500, Steve Smith wrote:
>>The 1940s bad stuff was mostly shoot-em-ups and monsters.  No real
>>"puzzles" unless you count "tomato surprise" endings, which Kit may
>>actually be talking about.  The stuff I think of as "puzzles" was mostly
>>1950s and 1960s, with Christopher Anvil, Hal Clement, and Poul Anderson
>>doing real "need to solve this" stories, with definite science and math.
>
>Speaking of Anvil, Baen has issued "Pandora's Legions" edited by Eric
>Flint.  The new version inserted three stories published Analog prior to
>the original novel (also serialized in Analog.)  Did Flint "update" these
>stories as he did with Schmitz's work?
>
I'm sure that if there were any changes they would be noted on the =
copyright page . . . just like the Schmitz books.

What? What?  You say therewere no notice in the Schmitz reprints of any =
editorial changes to the text.  Neither Baen or Flint bothered to let the =
reading public know they weren't reading the actual writings of Schmitz?  =
That Homer Eon, I mean Eric, Flint's changes to the text were being being =
hidden?

I'm shocked, just shocked that a quality publisher like Baen could do =
such.  Must be something in the water

Anyway, "Christopher Anvil" is still alive and can make whatever changes =
to the story/stories he likes.  It's just being fair to note on the =
copyright oage that changes have been made.  Smith made enough changes to =
the first paperback edition (Pyramid, 1958) that the book had a new =
copyright.  That's playing fair.

End of cranky copyright rant.

mjw