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Old 05-27-2008, 02:03 AM   #29
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Originally Posted by carandol View Post
I'm pretty sure in this case that the revisions are recent -- the collapse of the Soviet Union, the moon landings, and our failure to continue manned space exploration after the moon landings are all in the Baen edition from 2000, and the previous edition was published in 1979, when nobody much was predicting the end of Soviet power.
Baen does seem to like to do that with the older fiction that they acquire, which is why the manuscripts for the original Godwin and Schmitz stories that were changed a lot were presented for free on Baen's site.

Most seem to be relatively minor edits, tho.

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