Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 17:17:43 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Title: The World Turned Upside Down
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> twhite8 at cox.net 9/10/04 5:09:36 PM >>>
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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.
>
>========
>
>Frankly, I am aghast at the notion that it's proper or acceptable to
>*rewrite* published "classics" in our field   What next?  Heinlein as
>rewritten by Spider Robinson?   The "William Shattner" version of
Asimov's
>Foundation series?

Pretty amazing, ain't it?

According to http://www.sfwa.org/org/estates.htm the estate is handled
by the Scott Meredith Agency.

So, I guess it was a case of "Show me the money."

The question is: would Baen have reissued Schmitz if told to print the
stories as John W. Campbell (and other editors more talented than . . .)
had published them?

mjw