<div dir="auto">I didn't see anything about a copyright date in the first few pages. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jan 3, 2024, 8:19 PM cjhi <a href="http://newcastle2.com">newcastle2.com</a> <<a href="mailto:cjhi@newcastle2.com">cjhi@newcastle2.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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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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<div>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 <<a href="mailto:reading-group-bounces@lists.nesfa.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">reading-group-bounces@lists.nesfa.org</a>> on behalf of Shelly Thomas <<a href="mailto:yellerdoggy@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">yellerdoggy@gmail.com</a>><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 <a href="http://newcastle2.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">newcastle2.com</a><<a href="http://newcastle2.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://newcastle2.com</a>> <<a href="mailto:cjhi@newcastle2.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">cjhi@newcastle2.com</a><mailto:<a href="mailto:cjhi@newcastle2.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">cjhi@newcastle2.com</a>>> 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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