Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 15:07:14 -0500
From: Ted White <tedwhite at compusnet.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Anvil & Flint
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Michael Walsh wrote:

> 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

You expect *honesty* from Jim Baen?  *Really*?

--Ted White