Question about the 1991 re-issue of EG

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Question about the 1991 re-issue of EG

Postby chuck96 » Thu Jun 07, 2012 12:26 pm

I am re-reading EG after finishing the Shadow serries... Planning to read Exile and then re-read the Speaker books...

But something is bugging me... The "preludes" to each chapter in EG...

I remember them being emails with a From and To like in the shadow serries.

Was this changed in the 1991 re-issue or do I not remember the 80's very well ;-)
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Re: Question about the 1991 re-issue of EG

Postby Luet » Thu Jun 07, 2012 4:26 pm

I don't recall them being emails but just conversations (between Graff and Chamragnar?).
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Re: Question about the 1991 re-issue of EG

Postby LilBee91 » Thu Jun 07, 2012 4:48 pm

The 80's EG (c. Ender's War) has them as conversations, not emails. The Speaker books have some email-esque things, though I think they're all one-sided. Maybe that's what you're thinking of?
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Re: Question about the 1991 re-issue of EG

Postby chuck96 » Fri Jun 08, 2012 10:55 am

Not talking about "Ender's War" never heard of that one...

The original 1985 EG publication was the version of the book I read 1st ... owned a copy and read again before "lending" to a friend... more years ago than I am going to admit now.

I am now reading the 1991 version of EG ... the Introduction written by OSC mentions that the 1991 version has "minor changes as I fix the errors and internal contradictions and stylistic excesses that have bothered me..."

Anybody have a 1985 version of the Book? ... or ehmmm is old enough to have read the original version?
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Re: Question about the 1991 re-issue of EG

Postby Syphon the Sun » Fri Jun 08, 2012 5:35 pm

I have the first edition. They're conversations, not emails.
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Re: Question about the 1991 re-issue of EG

Postby chuck96 » Tue Jun 12, 2012 11:35 am

Thanks Syphon or looking/confirming... I realized about 2 hours after writting my last post and reading a few more chapters ... that it was a dumb question...

Very clearly real time conversations not emails like we see in the Shadow Books.
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