From: "Madeleine Yeh" <myeh at wap.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: The World Turned Upside Down - and changes
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 23:07:52 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 17:41:47 -0400
  Steve Smith <sgs at aginc.net> wrote:

> On the topic of Flynn's editing of Schmitz, I didn't
>notice any glaring
> bloopers, and I have most of Schmitz's Telzy stories in
>the original
> magazine versions.  Somewhere (rasff?) Flynn defended
>his edits on the
> grounds that what he did was basically take out a couple
>of paragraphs
> of description that were repeated verbatum in each
>story.  It's OK in
> the magazine version as a memory jogger, but irritating
>when you read
> the stories straight through.  Not as bad as some make
>out (he didn't
> really "rewrite" anything) but still disrespectful.
>
> --
> Steve Smith
>                                          sgs at aginc.net
> Agincourt Computing
>                           http://www.aginc.net
> "Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to
>make sense."
>
    What I didn't like was Eric Fling removing all the
cigarettesin Schmitz's stories, it seemed like the people
"improving" Shakespeare by  modernizing the language.  I
am glad to see all the stories again,  but wish he had
just stuffed them in a book and reprinted them.  That how
all the Howard books are  reprinted.
     Madeleine