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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib
All this stuff is free, and really no reason to buy it.
Hodgeson is available for free from MobileRead and numerous other sites.
....all free.
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The editions offered through Baen are the texts of the Night Shade Books editions. Some people prefer those editions because the books were well-edited.
The SF Site Review calls the paper edition "typo-free." Wow.
I don't know if the ebook editions are as well put together, but that seems like a promising start.
Also, from the sample on Baen's site, the illustrations are really nifty:
http://www.webscription.net/chapters...3670.htm?blurb
The Night Shade Hodgson books include a section called "A Note on the Texts." I wanted to read that to know more about their sources, etc. However, it's at the very end, so it's not in the sample chapters.
As far as the CAS stories go, the Night Shade edition again looks like one where the editors went to a lot of trouble to get the texts "right." With stories originally published in magazines or by popular presses, there were often changes made that the authors didn't want. (Even Zane Grey's novels were censored.) The free versions generally use the magazine versions of the stories, but editions like these often restore texts so that readers can get the version the author actually wanted to tell.