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Subject: Re: Matter Transmission (and Dick's THE UNTELEPORTED MAN)
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Date: Tue, 14-Aug-84 14:48:45 EDT
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From:  donn@utah-cs (Donn Seeley)

	From Garnaat.henr@Xerox.ARPA:

	While on the subject of the ending [of THE UNTELEPORTED MAN], I
	would like to pose a question to anyone familiar with Dick's
	work.  The book I have is a re-release (since his death, many
	of his novels have been re-released) and claims to have the
	"original, uncensored" ending which was supposedly left out of
	the original release for "commercial" reasons.  My
	disapointment with the ending got me wondering about the
	original book.  How does the ending differ? Or, better yet, any
	ideas on where I could find a copy of the original release?

	Mitch

Coincidentally, the August LOCUS (#283) has a review of yet another
version of THE UNTELEPORTED MAN, this one titled LIES, INC. and
published by Gollancz in the UK.  Here is what Dan Chow has to say
(yes, copied without permission, etc.):

	There is something appropriately Dickian about the publishing
	history of LIES, INC.  Originally published in 1966 as THE
	UNTELEPORTED MAN in an Ace Double format, it was a
	digest-magazine novella expanded into a novel but then cut to
	about half the length Dick intended.  In 1983 the full version
	was published by Berkley under the same title, but by then Dick
	had died and four pages had been lost from the manuscript.
	This time, the novel seemed untouched even by the editorial
	hands who would have corrected spelling and grammar as the
	author might have wished.  While the Gollancz edition, retitled
	LIES, INC., was being arranged, a revised and retitled
	typescript was discovered.  Here the full version of THE
	UNTELEPORTED MAN had been reorganized, and the roughness had
	been smoothed out to some extent, but there still remained two
	gaps.  These have been filled in by John Sladek for the
	Gollancz edition. (p. 15)

Sounds like Gollancz did it right.  I wonder if this edition will ever
appear in paperback on this side of the pond?

Coincidentally again, the same issue of LOCUS has a letter from Tessa
B. Dick complaining about the editorial practices of Berkley in
putting together their edition of THE UNTELEPORTED MAN...

Finally got around to A MAZE OF DEATH, starting soon on DR. FUTURITY,

Donn Seeley    University of Utah CS Dept    donn@utah-cs.arpa