Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 08:16:34 -0800 (PST)
From: Samuel Lubell <samlubell at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: An imaginary conversation in the backroom of abookstore . . . .
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

--- Michael Walsh <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu> wrote:
> >bnewton at ashcomp.com 02/02/03 02:05PM
> >Aw, c'mon Mike.  Don't hold back.  Tell us how you
> *really* feel!
> >
>
> Feel about Baen?
> The folks who've published re-written Schmitz and
> passed it off as =
> original?
> Sorry, I don't want to offend sensitive eyes reading
> such <g>.

There was an extensive debate over this in USENET.
The editor, Eric Flint, made two telling points in my
opinion.  The first was that this wasn't a choice
between the edited Schmitz and an unedited volume but
the edited Schmitz or not being able to publish the
book.  The second point was that any publisher in the
last 30 years could have reprinted the stories
unedited if they thought these stories were so good
that they didn't need editing, yet no one did (even
some of the Telzey stories had not been reprinted.)

>
> I've read two orginal Baen books - Roger MacBride
> Allen's "Orphan of =
> Creation" and Michael Flynn's first novel "In the
> Country of the Blind."  =
> Both fine books.
>
> mjw
>

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