Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 17:33:28 -0400
From: Kit Mason <kit at hers.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Could use some editing, was So Many Universes, So Little
 Time
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Ted White wrote:
>
> Kit Mason wrote:
>
> > Erica VD Ginter wrote:
> > >
> > > Anne McCaffrey. Marion Zimmer Bradley. Who else gets away with it now that
> > > they're a Big Name?
> >
> > Stephen King.  Tom Clancy.  Clive Barker.  Katherine Kurtz.  Samuel L.
> > Delaney.
>
> There's editing and there's Editing.  Delaney can't spell (he was a victim of a
> teaching program which ignored such details) and *has* to be edited.

Notice the difference between the award-winning originally published
version of "Babel-17" and the version that was published a few years
later *with the edited material restored*.  That was a whole lot more
than just spelling.

Kit