Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 17:54:12 -0500
From: Steve Smith <sgs at aginc.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Anvil & Flint
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Michael Walsh wrote:

> 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

I have this neat little mental "knob" that I can set to the date of a
story.  I can then relate to it as to the date it was written, without
getting tripped up with current science or Political Correctness.  For
example "A Princess of Mars" comes out as being scientifically accurate
(it was set on Percival Lowell's Mars).

Then I read "The Path of Unreason", by George O. Smith (one of the
finest Paranoid Fantasy novels I've ever read, btw).  Copyright 1958.
Cool.  Set the little knob.  Finding digital watches, pocket
calculators, Teflon, and Larry Niven was a real speedbump ...

Other people do it too.  My copy of PoU is from Ballentine.  Says "First
Printing, 1975", but nothing about updating the copyright.

--
Steve Smith                                           sgs at aginc.net
Agincourt Computing                            http://www.aginc.net
"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."