(urth) Free Live Free Two texts

[Marc Aramini]

Also, some subtextual clues have been layered into the tor version like the
sounds of an airplane when free is just sitting there watching tv, etc.
 which will make sense as a detail when you finish the story.

On Tuesday, May 13, 2014, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at gmail.com> wrote:

> There are a few differences like chapter headings - "selling weather"
> becomes "four roomers of war" in the first chapter a man named Norris
> identified by his first name comes in looking for candy rather than sgt
> Proudy looking for Free ... Words like might are changed to would, etc.  I
> may read them side by side when I get to 1984 in my review of Wolfe's
> fiction... I don't plan on doing new sun unless the spirit strikes me and I
> have something new to say.
>
> On Saturday, May 10, 2014, Antonin Scriabin <kierkegaurdian at gmail.com<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','kierkegaurdian at gmail.com');>>
> wrote:
>
>> I just finished the 1984 version, and can't imagine doing without 4000
>> words. I haven't read the Tor version. I would say have the best of both
>> worlds; read the longer version with the benefit of the chronology when you
>> need it. It was fantastic by the way, one of my favorite of his stand
>> alones.
>> On May 10, 2014 1:41 AM, "Austin Hackett" <austin.hackett at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, new member here. I joined up to find out which version of *Free
>>> Live Free* is preferable to read?
>>>
>>> I haven't read *Free Live Free* but plan on doing so soon. It just so
>>> happens I have both the 1984 Mark V. Ziesing small press edition and the
>>> standard 1986 Tor mass market version on my shelf. Several places online
>>> say the Tor is shorter by about 4000 words. I also notice that it contains
>>> a chronology (which, it says, was requested by the publisher) and the title
>>> of the first chapter is different. The order of some parts may also be
>>> different between the two versions according to vague reports.
>>>
>>> Does the Tor edition represent an editorially truncated text or the
>>> author's final revisions? Some might think "longer = better" but I don't
>>> want to assume anything. Maybe Wolfe shortened the book at the behest of
>>> the publisher, but he may have just revised it for his own artistic
>>> purposes. Even if the cuts were mandated, he may have taken the opportunity
>>> to make different changes as well. And none of these factors actually
>>> determine which version is *better*.
>>>
>>> So has anyone read both, or at least knows a little about the backstory?
>>> I can't find any info online.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
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