I look forward to receiving The Complete Psychotechnic League not only because it will be complete and might also have new Introductions or other additional material but also because the Baen Books volumes are old and faded.
I gather that this new "complete" edition is to be published in three volumes whereas I think that two longer volumes would have been more appropriate. See here. And the misleading word, "League," could have been removed from the title. Nevertheless, this will be a new reading experience quite apart from the fact that, like The Time Patrol and The Technic Civilization Saga, these new collections will include fiction by Anderson that many of us have not read before.
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Paul:
One warning on those new editions: sometimes the text is different in some "minor" but occasionally jarring ways. There may be a statement that this was done to "update" the science for greater accuracy, OR the change may be given no justification whatever, not even a spurious one.
DAvid,
Have you read THE COMPLETE PSYCHOTECHNIC LEAGUE, Vol I?
Paul.
Paul:
No, I was just offering a general statement, based on such discrepancies I've seen in new editions of other authors' work. The "update" notice occurred in two of C.M. Kornbluth's books, *The Syndic* and *Not This August*. A couple of omnibus editions of Andre Norton series had modifications in phrasing that didn't change the meaning at all and, so far as I could tell, served no purpose. The changes were slight, but disrupted my enjoyment, given that I was familiar enough with the texts I already had to spot that they WERE changes.
I just got that myself.
I am waiting for a Christmas present!
Gentlemen,
I too have Baen Books reprint of THE PSYCHOTECHNIC LEAGUE, and it is simply a reprint of the same collection printed in the 1980's. I'm enough of a PA fan that I don't mind, but unrealistic expectations need to be avoided.
What I AM hoping for is that Baen Books will include in the reprinted collection the two Pyschotechnic stories not included in the earlier collection: "The Green Thumb" and "The Acolytes."
Sean
Sean,
It is definitely described and advertised as complete.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
I suspect it will be merely a complete reprinting of the earlier collection. But maybe I will be wrong!
Sean
Sean,
It is advertised on the 'net as containing previously uncollected stories.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
Good! Has someone at Baen Books stumble across my article "The Uncollected Works Of Poul Anderson" and noticed that, for reasons unknown, no one has republished "The Green Thumb" and "The Acolytes," with the other Psychostechnic stories? Maybe!
Sean
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