<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">Marc, I think you just negated your reasons for not wanting to write up ILL. It sounds like some level of editorial meddling is the norm. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Going back to the gentleman's question, is it even possible to publish a manuscript as submitted with no editing? Surely there has to be a check for grammar, punctuation, spelling, missing words, etc. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Apr 27, 2019, at 9:54 PM, Marc Aramini <<a href="mailto:marcaramini@gmail.com">marcaramini@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Yeah but having twenty thousand words cut, ten by Wolfe and ten by another editor, sure didn’t help it. <br><br>On Saturday, April 27, 2019, Gerry Quinn <<a href="mailto:gerry@bindweed.com">gerry@bindweed.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
On 28/04/2019 00:07, Marc Aramini wrote:<br>
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Operation ares got clusterfucked by tens of thousands of words. They sure butchered the last sentence of my story in the Wolfe tribute anthology lol. Damon knight changed the whole structure of trip trap and Wolfe agreed. Hartwell left well enough alone.<br>
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I've not read it, but my impression is that Operation Ares was generally considered a tyro effort even by Wolfe himself?<br>
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