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<div>The short story "Frostfree" was commissioned originally for a Festschrift I was editing in honor of long-time Urth member, James Jordan. When I did the copy editing on the story, I noticed that <span style="font-size: 10pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Frostfree" is not, in fact, the name written on the fridge. It says "frostfree" -- lowercase. And <i>deliberately so</i>.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 10pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I asked Wolfe about it and he replied, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small;">"The "frostfree" on the freezer door is not a name, it's an ad claim. Stet."</span></div>
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<div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small;">"Stet." That's the word that I'd like to characterize all of Wolfe's future publications. </span></div>
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<div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small;">It's one thing for an editor to catch what he thinks <i>might</i> be a typo and run it past Wolfe for verification. But it's another thing to change what Wolfe wanted, even if it's as minor as capitalizing the word on a fridge. Apparently that mattered to him.</span><br>
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From: Marc Aramini <marcaramini@gmail.com><br>
To: The Urth Mailing List <urth@lists.urth.net><br>
Sent: Sun, Apr 28, 2019 4:02 pm<br>
Subject: Re: (urth) Interlibrary Loan<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Yes every edition but the Ace uses the Scribner flawed printing. </div>
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<div dir="ltr">The Gollancz SF Masterworks ebook has "fifteen" (spelled out). </div>
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<div dir="ltr">See page 161- “it must have weighed a good fifteen pounds” - I have had translators contact me and had to explain it should be fifteen hundred pounds. <br clear="none"><br clear="none">On Sunday, April 28, 2019, Ab de Vos <<a rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:foxyab@casema.nl" target="_blank" href="mailto:foxyab@casema.nl">foxyab@casema.nl</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv8849833668gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;">
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<div>I have the Charles Scribner's Sons edition of Fifth Head (New
York, 1972). Is that one corrupted as well?</div>
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Copy editors managed to mess up the horn reveal in reprints of
Long Sun and I insist the ace version of Fifth Head is the least
corrupt. Wolfe was very mad about the switching of horn for I
about two thirds of the way through exodus in reprints. He wanted
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<div dir="ltr">I've never been sure how much leeway an editor
really has. Would they really cut whole scenes they didn't
like? Do they redo things wholesale or just fix things and
make recommendations? Since Wolfe picked this editor, can
we rely on his pick? Even if Wolfe were alive, how much of
the editor's influence would make it to publication? And if
the answer is the editor has a lot of sway, how many of his
edits would the author notice on review?</div>
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<div dir="ltr">I like to have faith that Wolfe (who so
carefully constructed each work) anticipated the
possibility of posthumourous publication and made
appropriate plans for that eventuality.</div>
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at 7:51 PM Eric Bourland <<a rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:eb@hwaet.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:eb@hwaet.com">eb@hwaet.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">
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we would get if, individually and noisily, we
reached out to Tor editors and implored them
to do basic proofreading on the new novel, but
make no changes in its substance, and publish
it as Mr. Wolfe wrote it. I am willing to act
on this.</div>
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<div class="yiv8849833668MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Urth <<a rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:urth-bounces@lists.urth.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:urth-bounces@lists.urth.net">urth-bounces@lists.urth.net</a>>
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<div class="yiv8849833668MsoNormal">One hopes. Yes that’s how I
feel about those who would edit Wolfe.he can
create meaning in so many ways that every
reader will certainly miss, especially in his
post 2000 work. </div>
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<div class="yiv8849833668MsoNormal">(I’m glad cell phones
made top posting the de facto response - I
remember the days of the list when it was a
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On Friday, April 26, 2019, Evan Pickett <<a rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:picketter@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:picketter@gmail.com">picketter@gmail.com</a>>
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reminded of a scene from The
Insider, although Mr. Wolfe would
probably not ever take this tone:</span></div>
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any editor would know by now that
Gene Wolfe chose his words with
care?</span></div>
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