Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 18:24:53 -0400
From: Ted White <tedwhite at compusnet.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>

Kit Mason wrote:

> 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.

I missed that -- but then, I never found his Ace books that readable.  Don Wollheim
could be a demanding editor, but all he ever changed in my Ace book was the
characters' *names*.    What was the nature of the restored material?

--Ted White