Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 13:59:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: The World Turned Upside Down - and changes
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Eric Flint has described the sort of changes he makes, and they
don't include replacing slide rules with computers.  He mentioned
replacing "newshen" with "newscaster," "gat" with "gun," "Soviet" with
"Russian," removing repeated backstory which isn't needed when several
short stories are adjacent in a collection, and removing the mention
of a cigarette being smoked in a context where a cigarette would not
be smoked today.  He also mentioned that different versions of the
same story published during the author's lifetime tend to vary far
more than that.

These are not changes I would make, but I don't consider them utterly
outrageous, nor do I think they destroy the work.

I would have told Ernest Lilley that I would review "The World Turned
Upside Down" except that he *still* hasn't replied to the offer Wade
and I made over two weeks ago to proofread and copy-edit his future
Washington DC anthology.  It would be courteous to send either a "yes"
or "no" or *something*, rather than keep us in suspense when we offer
to spend a large amount of unpaid time on his project.