<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Good evening,<div><br></div><div>As it happens, I was unable to access “Police Your Planet” on paper.</div><div><br></div><div>Not having reread the book, I may not attend tomorrow evening. </div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Gloria </div><div><br><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jan 3, 2024, at 8:19 PM, cjhi newcastle2.com <cjhi@newcastle2.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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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.)<br>
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/CHip<br>
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<div class="PlainText">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.
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"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)<br>
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From: reading-group <reading-group-bounces@lists.nesfa.org> on behalf of Shelly Thomas <yellerdoggy@gmail.com><br>
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How do we tell? I bought the $1.99 big box kindle version.<br>
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On Wed, Jan 3, 2024, 11:52 AM cjhi newcastle2.com<<a href="http://newcastle2.com">http://newcastle2.com</a>> <cjhi@newcastle2.com<mailto:cjhi@newcastle2.com>> wrote:<br>
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?<br>
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