Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 17:43:56 -0400
From: Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: ebooks and Last not-so-Dangerous Visions
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On 4/30/2011 2:28 PM, Tamar Lindsay wrote:

>  Mike Walsh suggested it, possibly in jest, but I think it could
>  actually have worked. Only, I think the whole project is long
>  mothballed. Didn't most of the authors get the rights back anyway? I
>  know some of them did.
>
>  It would be kind of neat, though. Even if it were just put up on a
>  website and people could subscribe to download or read the stories
>  online, at their leisure, without having to get the whole mass at
>  once.

That will never happen.  Why?  Harlan Ellison.

A number of contributors to TLDV have died.  A few got their stories
back (or their estates did).  Many would be embarrassed to see them in
print now, because those stories were written very early in their
writing careers (which they are now at the other end of).  The majority
were written in the '70s.  If AGAIN, DANGEROUS VISIONS is any
indication, many of the stories Harlan bought were not, in hindsight,
very good.  Tim Kirk did illustrative designs for each story in TLDV.
The only thing that *ever* kept the volume from publication was Harlan's
block on writing the story/author introductions.  That block seems
likely to die with Harlan.  Chris Priest wrote the definitive word on
TLDV some decades ago.  Harlan has regarded him as an Unspeakable Enemy
ever since.

And, oh yes, Harlan is a total Luddite where computers/the internet is
concerned.

--Ted White