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<blockquote data-quote="Wofano Wotanto" data-source="post: 9268112" data-attributes="member: 7044704">If wiki's to be believed that one got revised in 2002 (something he did with a number of his novels - revisions for more modern audiences).&nbsp; Did you get that one or the 1977 version?&nbsp; Wonder what the differences were.Me, I'm mostly grinding through the online Astounding archive this year.&nbsp; Up into to 1941 now, ran into the two Bullard of the Space Patrol short stories that never got collected, which was a nice prize.&nbsp; They aren't as quite as good as the rest of the series (which is a nostalgic childhood memory for me) so I guess I can see why they were left out - particularly Devil's Powder, which is about drug-smuggling.&nbsp; The original Bullard collection was put together by some youth organization that thought the stories were uplifting moral fare for our nation's children, IIRC, so mentioning even fictional drugs was a no-no.&nbsp; Honestly vaguely surprising Brimstone Bill made it in now that I think about it.&nbsp; Using a con artist with a hell-and-damnation routine to keep Bullard's crew from getting picked clean by the local dives and rigged gambling joints and sex workers while on leave seems like it should have set off some alarm bells too.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wofano Wotanto, post: 9268112, member: 7044704"] If wiki's to be believed that one got revised in 2002 (something he did with a number of his novels - revisions for more modern audiences). Did you get that one or the 1977 version? Wonder what the differences were. Me, I'm mostly grinding through the online Astounding archive this year. Up into to 1941 now, ran into the two Bullard of the Space Patrol short stories that never got collected, which was a nice prize. They aren't as quite as good as the rest of the series (which is a nostalgic childhood memory for me) so I guess I can see why they were left out - particularly Devil's Powder, which is about drug-smuggling. The original Bullard collection was put together by some youth organization that thought the stories were uplifting moral fare for our nation's children, IIRC, so mentioning even fictional drugs was a no-no. Honestly vaguely surprising Brimstone Bill made it in now that I think about it. Using a con artist with a hell-and-damnation routine to keep Bullard's crew from getting picked clean by the local dives and rigged gambling joints and sex workers while on leave seems like it should have set off some alarm bells too. [/QUOTE]

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