Re: different versions of _The Mad Man_
Michael Hemmingson <[email protected]>
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He did some changes on the Masquerade/Rhino edition because he was rushed on the hardcover edition. Richard Kasak, the publisher, had bought the book as a partial, it was announced, and it had to be at the printer, so SRD rushed to get it done -- there are typos and such, and stuff he felt he left out. Any writer who has ever sold a book to Kasak, as I have sold a few too in the past, know what an ass he can be -- of course he would issue an unfinished book with errors because people are going to but it anyway. The recent small press reprint has an extra added 50 pages. Much more raunchy sex. Like plays, some novels are never "finished." MH [email protected] wrote: Heh. I have the Rhino(eros) paperback, and I haven't read any other editions -- mostly for the same reasons as you. I was able to enjoy reading 'The Motion of Light in Water' in three different editions (original (Plume), UK, and Rhino(eros), happily noting all the textual variations, amendments, and expansions. But then it's a much less difficult text. Cheers, --Zvi > My copy of _The Mad Man_ is the first, hardback, edition. When I > finished it I felt like I had completed an Olympic endurance event. > > I understand that he revised it substantially for two subsequent > paperback editions. Has anyone here read the multiple editions and can > generally describe the revisions? Or has a pointer to a document that > does? I'm not sure I want to commit to climbing Everest again to find > out myself... > > -- > Erich Schneider [email protected] > > > == Posted to delany-list, hosted at yahoo groups == > == A mailing list for the discussion of the works of Samuel R. Delany. == > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] == Posted to delany-list, hosted at yahoo groups == == A mailing list for the discussion of the works of Samuel R. Delany. == Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delany-list/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delany-list/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/