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Old 11-22-2022, 03:31 PM   #786
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Originally Posted by gmw View Post
Various self-contradictory titles, unless deliberately ironic, make me cringe. For example:

Frank Herbert: Unpublished Stories ... ah, so if the stories are unpublished, what exactly am I buying?
I can give this a pass as it’s informative and economical. It conveys exactly the information needed in a couple of words. It beats: Frank Herbert: The Stories that are Only Being Published Now that He’s Dead; He Didn’t Think They were Worth Publishing but His Heirs are Greedy, So Don’t Expect Them to be Very Good.
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