Hloch's unheaded introductory passage is on pp. 1-2;
"Wings of Victory" is on pp. 3-22;
Hloch's second unheaded passage spreads across pp. 23-25 although it could have fitted onto two pages;
"The Problem of Pain" is on pp. 26-48 -
- and the volume continues in this manner. There is no table of contents. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS on p. v lists the original places and dates of publication of the eleven collected stories and one novel.
In Baen Books' The Technic Civilization Saga, compiled by Hank Davis:
Hloch's introductory passage gains the heading, INTRODUCTION WINGS OF VICTORY;
each of the eleven interstitial passages is headed INTRODUCTION, followed by the title of the next narrative;
Hloch's unheaded concluding passage, published at the midpoint of Volume III, gains the heading, AFTERWORD;
the originally unheaded fictional quotation introducing the first post-Earth Book story, "The Star Plunderer," gains the heading INTRODUCTION;
although INTRODUCTION WINGS OF VICTORY is on pp. 75-77 and the text of "Wings of Victory," here headed WINGS OF VICTORY, is on pp. 79-102, the table of contents lists "Wings of Victory" as beginning on p. 75;
similarly, each Earth Book interstitial passage is now treated as part of the following story;
where appropriate, the "Acknowledgments" separately list the original publication of an introduction in the Earth Book followed by the original publication elsewhere of the particular work.
Kaor, Paul!
ReplyDeleteI have noticed how my copy of THE EARTH BOOK OF STORMGATE has no table of contents, which weas sometimes inconvenient.
Ad astra! Sean