[nesfa-reading-group] which version?

[Shelly Thomas]

I didn't see anything about a copyright date in the first few pages.

On Wed, Jan 3, 2024, 8:19 PM cjhi newcastle2.com <cjhi at newcastle2.com>
wrote:

> Shelly – is there anything in your copy about a copyright date? I wouldn't
> be surprised if Amazon had grabbed the earlier version, which ISFDB says
> shows no signs of having had its copyright renewed, but I wouldn't assume
> they did. The first book version was (c) 1956; the revision was (c) 1975.
> (NESFA has the latter, but I don't have the stomach to read another
> version.)
>
> /CHip
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> of Wesley Brodsky <wesbrodsky at alum.mit.edu>
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> *Subject:* Re: [nesfa-reading-group] which version?
>
> I have read the Project Gutenberg version. The first page reads “ The
> Project Gutenberg eBook of Police Your Planet”. There should be information
> on the publisher and publication date of any version on the first few
> pages.
>
> Wes Brodsky
> "It is of the utmost importance that Concepts not trouble you with
> silliness or complications, unless you are searching for really difficult
> work."; Giordano Bruno (1582)
>
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>
> How do we tell?  I bought the $1.99 big box kindle version.
>
> On Wed, Jan 3, 2024, 11:52 AM cjhi newcastle2.com<http://newcastle2.com> <
> cjhi at newcastle2.com<mailto:cjhi at newcastle2.com>> wrote:
> ISFDB says  that Police Your Planet exists in (at least) three versions:
> the magazine original of 1953, the "abridged" version published in book
> form in 1956, and the "rewritten" version that I remember coming into the
> MITSFS in 1975. Which version(s) have people been reading? Project
> Gutenberg has the 1956 version, which brings to mind a live performance of
> "30,000 Pounds of Bananas"; did anyone dig up either of the others?
>
> /CHip
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