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Originally Posted by fantasyfan
That's a great recommendation. At only four dollars it's an excellent value. I just downloaded it and the formatting appears excellent.
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You're welcome.
Baen generally does good formatting. The only quirk I saw was a John Ringo book offered on one of the bound in CDs. A quick back in forth with John in email, with a chime in by former Baen webmaster Arnold Bailey confirmed my suspicions: the final manuscript was not ready when the CD had to go to production, so what was included on the CD was an ARC (Advanced Reading Copy - essentially, uncorrected galley proofs). Personally, I was tickled to read John's notes to himself and questions to his editor scattered through the manuscript, so I wasn't bothered. It was simply the first time I'd seen that occur on a CD.
Godwin is normally remembered for "The Cold Equations", which has a lot of impact if you
don't examine the premise too closely. If you do, it becomes what the late Damon Knight once referred to as a story with a Second Order Idiot Plot, which only works because everyone in the story is an idiot.
Eric Flint did a fair bit of editing on "The Gulf Between" for the volume, for reasons he explains. For those interested in what he changed, he also made the original unedited copy available through the Free Library, and you can get that here:
http://www.webscription.net//p-307-o...n-stories.aspx
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Dennis