From: <samlubell at verizon.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>, <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Title: The World Turned Upside Down
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 15:00:18 -0500
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> From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
> Date: 2004/09/10 Fri PM 02:42:39 CDT
> To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
> Subject: [WSFA] Re: Title: The World Turned Upside Down
>
>Flint, atleast with the Schmitz reissues, seems to be under the
>delusion that unless an editor actually "edits" a collection of
>previously published stories then . . . well, I'm not too sure
>what he thinks.

>He'd probably be quite perplexed by Groff Conklin. And by Healy &
>McComas with the classic Adventures in Time & Space. Nope, no
>rewriting there.

>Hmmm . . . .Eric Flint, the Roger Elwood of his generation?

In all fairness to Flint, the alternative to his edited versions of Schmitz was not reprinting the "Flint Free Text" but nothing as no publisher had reprinted anything of Schmitz in years (save a high-priced NESFA edition not generally sold in bookstores).  Some of the stories (even of the Telzey stories, easily his most popular) had *never* been reprinted.

Flint (and Baen) are bringing back classic authors that have languished out of print for too long and bringing them back to mass market paperbacks where they are affordable to general readers.  If, in return, it means a little bit of editing (and I do object when he rewrites a whole story as happened a couple of times) the price is worth it.