Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 12:19:27 -0600 (CST)
From: <samlubell at verizon.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Philcon
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

>>
>>Will you do without the "Flint-free" stickers on your books at next
>>year's Philcon?
>
>Good question, the answer being... heck if I know. I don't have many
>Schmitz books left...
>
>OTOH, I might label them: Edited by John W. Campbell, jr.   And see how
>many blank stares that receives.

For all the complaints about Flint's editing, by the time he got to them, most of the the Schmitz books had been out of print for decades. Some of the Telzey stories had *never ever* been reprinted. Any editor could have put them out without revising them, none did. So yes, I would have prefered to have had the original versions, but the edited versions were certainly far better than nothing.