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Originally Posted by lkmiller
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Meh, I'm much less interested in the book now. I'd prefer
TLDV to be as close to what Ellison had planned (based on the contents published in Locus) as possible:
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As the years passed, a number of them were withdrawn by the writers and published elsewhere, and it makes no sense to republish stories that are otherwise available.
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If the authors will no longer allow the story to be part of the collection, I can understand. But Shirley Jackson's The Lottery has been republished more than once and people still manage to discover it for the first time. And:
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The rights to the few stories from the original batch that will not be included in this volume will be freely and formally returned to the writers and/or their estates so that they can be allowed to see the light of day elsewhere.
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To ignore stories originally written for the bookis just stupid.
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Some of the remaining stories have been overtaken by real-world events, rendering them less relevant or timely, and regrettably will be omitted...
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Using that logic, why read ANY old sci-fi? We don't have humaniform robots with positronic brains and the roads never rolled. Mars doesn't have a breathable atmosphere. I guess we should chuck it all.
Let
The Last Dangerous Visions be a book of the time it was conceived and started. And you know what? People will buy it.
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...some of the most well-known and respected writers working today have agreed to contribute stories to The Last Dangerous Visions...
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Just publish that stuff as
New Dangerous Visions.
At this point it's like that Led Zepplin tribute album
The Song Retains the Name.