Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 19:12:38 -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>

Steve Smith sent forth into the aether:

>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 =
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>> 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.

If my memory serves me, I would think giant vacumn tubes might be clue =
that it wasn't a new book.   (Gotta upgrade the memory from the cassette =
unit . . .)

mjw

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