(urth) New Lafferty collection from Centipede Press
Antonin Scriabin
kierkegaurdian at gmail.com
Sat Feb 1 21:54:50 PST 2014
That's a shame about the typos, I haven't delved into it fully, just
skimmed. I too will be buying every volume. Lafferty is peerless in short
stories, and getting them all is worth... well, let me just say I would be
willing to put up with a lot to have a complete collection. I am a bit
confused about the pricing as well. My copy was $45, the sticker on the
packaging said $100, and the Amazon pricing is $63. I wonder how the prices
for the future volumes are going to pan out.
On Feb 2, 2014 12:49 AM, "Matthew King" <automatthew at gmail.com> wrote:
> I received mine as well. The physical quality is as Antonin described.
>
> I was displeased to come upon three errors on the second page of the first
> story (18). The name of the titular character is twice given as Jan
> instead of Jon, and there's a word missing from a sentence immediately
> after that. Very disappointing in a volume priced for collectors.
>
> Moreover, the pages have no headers; there is text, there are page numbers
> at the bottom, but that is all. In this kind of a collection of short
> stories, I expect to see the title of each story at the top of the
> appropriate pages.
>
> It's Lafferty, so I still plan to buy every volume they publish, but my
> goodwill for their effort is diminished. Makes me wish I had had $70K in
> hand when his estate was up for sale.
>
> On Feb 1, 2014, at 11:29 PM, Antonin Scriabin <kierkegaurdian at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Finally got my copy of the first volume today. It is pretty nice,
> although I'm still not a fan of the cover design. The margins seem
> unusually large as well, there is a lot of space between the text and the
> edge of the page. The binding and materials are high quality though, and
> this will make a beautiful set when complete. And of course, all of the
> stories will be on my shelves! Can't wait to read ones I've missed.
> >
>
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