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Originally Posted by Richwood
I disagree as I have a 1991 copyright hardcover edition which says on the dust jacket "For the first time the original uncut stranger in a strange land" The original released 1961 version had several editor requested cuts made which were restored in the 1991 edition. 160,000 words in the originally published version and circa 220,000 words in the 1991 released version per one googled source.In 1961, when originally published, a science fiction book of the original manuscript length was unheard of. By 1991 long SF and fantasy stories were much more common.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strang...a_Strange_Land
http://www.heinleinsociety.org/rah/w...sstranger.html |
Rich, please see post
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To one and all:
I am well aware that Stranger in a Strange Land was famously edited at time of publication. In 1991, the uncut manuscript edition was published.
My comment was intended as a joke since we were just coming off of a discussion of the revised edition of Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles. I apologize to all readers who were flummoxed or conned into believing that I do not understand what I am talking about.
Henceforth, attempts at humor will either contain a
bolded warning message or will be avoided altogether, for my safety and the safety of others.