Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sri-unix!donn@utah-cs From: donn%utah-cs@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Matter Transmission (and Dick's THE UNTELEPORTED MAN) Message-ID: <12435@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Tue, 14-Aug-84 14:48:45 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.12435 Posted: Tue Aug 14 14:48:45 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Aug-84 02:17:37 EDT Lines: 48 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