Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 14:29:06 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Whoops... [WSFA] Re: Has anyone read any good books lately?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

> dalek_cag at yahoo.com 3/26/2005 10:18:13 AM >>>
>It's a hardcover.  I picked it up at the last
>Arlington County Public Library sale.  What design
>flaw?

It's missing stick figure drawings on pages 219, 221 & 223.  There's
about six lines of blankness of those pages.  The story is, I think, THe
Shadow Knows.

When Tor reissued the corrected version - and the copyright page still
states First Edition / First Printing - they added a star like device
next to the bar code, to make it easier to tell the editions apart as
they defective ones came in.

His web page with lotsa neato stuff:
http://www.terrybisson.com/index.html .  Which includes a link to an
interview at Scifi Weekly, where he says of "Bears Discover Fire":

"It's really an elegy to rural America disguised as an SF story. When
Gardner Dozois bought it for Asimov's, he said, 'It's not SF, but let
them shoot me.' "

That said, it's a damn fine story.

mjw