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Trace_Coburn
Learned Scribe
New Zealand
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 Posted - 30 Mar 2006 : 14:05:41
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I had occasion to get into the city and its FLGS today. (Picked up PH3.5, a second-hand Silver Marches, two Dragon back-issues and a couple of FR novels. Yay me!  )
However, one of the novels I thought of buying, but eventually didn't, was a 'new' copy of Spellfire with a black cover. I still have the 'old' version (with the cover-art of Shandril smiting down a dracolich in its lair while Elminster and Florin look on), and even though the binding is starting to get a little dodgy in a couple of places, I'm not quite ready to replace it just yet; before I make a decision either way, I'd like the following question answered.
My question is this: I remember reading some commentary (here?) from Ed o' the Greenwood about how 'chopped up' Spellfire was during editing, and how he had to do 'some' re-writes. Does the text within this 'new' version of Spellfire differ significantly from the 'old' version? Have those jagged slashes of the editor's knife through the text indeed been papered over (giving us a tale closer to the author's original manuscript/intent), or is it just a new wrapper around the exact same content as the original publication?
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D&D collection: Player's Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide, Monster Manual I, Complete Arcane, Arms & Equipment Guide.
FR sourcebook collection: Dragons of Faerūn, Faiths & Pantheons, FRCS, Lords of Darkness, Monsters of Faerūn, Player's Guide to Faerūn, Power of Faerūn, Races of Faerūn, Silver Marches.
I just got back into this, okay? Give me time (or better yet money) - I'll catch up soon enough.  |
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Kuje
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 30 Mar 2006 : 17:40:43
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It's changed some but for every word Ed included in the "new" version, a word from the "old" version had to be removed. So it's a little closer to the original, but it's not.
Ed's and THO's comments about it are in my sig. Search for spellfire in the indexes. |
For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet and excite you... Books are full of the things that you don't get in real life - wonderful, lyrical language, for instance, right off the bat. - Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
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Edited by - Kuje on 30 Mar 2006 17:41:10 |
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Spellfire - different editions?
