Aha, I checked your "Margins of Profit" link and discovered you mentioning two unTechnic details in the original version of "Margin of Profit." A Solar FEDERATION instead of a Solar COMMONWEALTH. And Mars had a native intelligent race, instead of colonists from another star permitted to settle there. And Anderson toned down the rather garish regalia worn by the Lodgemaster in the original text to an undescribed "formal" wear in the revised version.
Anderson had to change the bit about Mars having natives because, by the early Sixties, too much was know about Mars for that to be plausible. Pity.
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Kaor, Paul!
Aha, I checked your "Margins of Profit" link and discovered you mentioning two unTechnic details in the original version of "Margin of Profit." A Solar FEDERATION instead of a Solar COMMONWEALTH. And Mars had a native intelligent race, instead of colonists from another star permitted to settle there. And Anderson toned down the rather garish regalia worn by the Lodgemaster in the original text to an undescribed "formal" wear in the revised version.
Anderson had to change the bit about Mars having natives because, by the early Sixties, too much was know about Mars for that to be plausible. Pity.
Ad astra! Sean
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