Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 09:08:12 -0800 (PST)
From: Samuel Lubell <samlubell at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: An imaginary conversation in the backroom ofabookstore . . . .
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

> >I followed the debate closely, and nowhere did Eric
> answer the basic =
> issue:
> >he heavily edited the Schmitz books but they were
> published without =
> any
> >real indication that they'd been changed from the
> original.
>
> Luckily there is enough online comment regarding the
> "editing" that the =
> Baen editions will almost certainly be disregarded
> in any decent survey or =
> scholarly discussion of Schmitz.

Of course the books weren't meant to be scholarly
treatments.  They were meant to be (relatively)
inexpensive mass market paperbacks so that the typical
bookstore customer of sf would pick them up and read
them.

I love NESFA press books, I've bought (too) many of
them and probably will pick up more at Boskone
(probably the Brown novels).  But there's no way I
could have afforded them back when I was a
teenager/young adult.  The Flint editions at least got
the stories reprinted (as I said, some of them were
never reprinted) and in a format that modern readers
can afford.

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