Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 17:24:52 -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>

> tedwhite at compusnet.com 03/24/02 03:07PM
>
>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*?

Sorry, my sarcasm emoticon was left off . . .

The Newt Gingrich/1945 debacle I think of with fondness, even as the SFBC =
editions continue to show up in B&N at remainder prices (wonder why they =
didn't just pulp the thing? EPA regulations?)

mjw

>--Ted White
>