![]() ![]() Now " everybody knows" that the " correct" number is forty-six. sapiens has forty-eight chromosomes, a " fact" that " everybody knew" in 1941. My Beyond This Horizon (1941) states that H. Wells' SF stories are hopelessly dated . . . and they remain the best, the most gripping science fiction stories to be found anywhere. Such updating can't save a poor story and isn't necessary for a good story. I do not intend ever again to try to update a story to make it fit new art. ![]() ![]() This week I have compared the two versions, 19, word by word- there isn't a dime's worth of difference between them . . . and I now see, as a result of the enormous increase in the art in 33 years, more errors in the '46 version than I spotted in the '40 version when I checked it in '46. ![]() In the meantime there had been World War II, Hiroshima, The Smyth Report-so I went over my 1940 manuscript most carefully, correcting some figures I had merely guessed at in early 1940. LIFE-LINE, MISFIT, LET THERE BE LIGHT, ELSEWHEN, PIED PIPER, IF THIS GOES ON-, REQUIEM, THE ROADS MUST ROLL, COVENTRY, BLOWUPS HAPPEN-for eleven months, mid March 1939 through mid February 1940, I wrote every day . . . and that ended my bondage BLOWUPS HAPPEN paid off the last of that pesky mortgage- eight years ahead of time.Ä«LOWUPS HAPPEN was the first of my stories to be published in hard covers, in Groff Conklin's first anthology, The Best of Science Fiction, 1946. ![]()
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