Re: Highlights and Lowlights - April 2025

On 5/5/2025 3:15 PM, Tony Nance wrote:

 Highlights and Lowlights - April 2025

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( + 1/2 ) Planets of Adventure - Leinster [ed. by Flint & Gordon]
The final 1/3 of this volume is 5 stand-alone stories (the first two thirds being the books The Forgotten Planet and The Planet Explorer), and they’re fine. Not great, not awful - fine. [snip]

NESFA Press published _First Contacts: The Essential Murray Leinster_ in 1998 -- see https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?38968 -- which is pretty much definitive, although, to quote https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?13781:
 > Note that this version of "Doomsday Deferred" is corrupted: everything after "But pure terror of the discovery had me drenched in sweat when I got back to Milhao." is omitted.
Baen's 2003 _Planets of Adventure_ and the NESFA collection share only one story. The other 4 were, probably inevitably, not as good as Leinster's best. The early bird (in this case NESFA) gets the worm etc.