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From: ndd@duke.UUCP (Ned Danieley)
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Subject: Re: Eric Frank Russel & 1 question
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Date: Tue, 14-May-85 11:53:58 EDT
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In article <2137@decwrl.UUCP> bottom@katadn.DEC writes:
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> Seeing as how Eric Frank Russell has been mentioned I thought I'd throw
>in my pitch for one of his better books, Men, Martians and Machines. It's
>been years since I read it but if you can find it read it.

Men, Martians and Machines was recently reprinted as part of
a series of classic science fiction stories. I have forgotten
the publisher and editors, but I was very pleased to get a
hard-back copy; my paper-back version was purchased in 1965
and is very fragile. However, I was disappointed to see that
the two texts did not match; the more recent printing had been
Americanized. I clearly remember a spanner becoming a wrench;
there may be other examples. It kind of irritates me, since I
learned a lot of interesting words from books, words that I might
not have learned if everything was written in some 'standard'
American english.


Ned Danieley
duke!ndd