Ride the Magic Dragonfly. Autographed with copyedits, 1981-1989

Item — shelf: On Shelf

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Sub-Series Scope and Contents

From the Sub-Series:

This sub-series contains the literary works of Robert L. Forward that were selected for binding in book form by Dr. Forward. The volumes are comprised of draft versions of Forward's science-fiction and non-fiction writings. The bulk of the manuscripts are heavily copyedited by Dr. Forward and/or publishing staff. Many manuscripts are also autographed by Forward and, occasionally, co-authors. All copyedits and autographs were made by Dr. Forward unless otherwise noted. Bylines are provided exclusively for co-authored works, works by other authors, and works citing more than one creative role.

Dr. Forward frequently inscribed his manuscripts with brief, contextual descriptions regarding the publication or revision of the work in hand. For those items containing such annotations, pertinent information is transcribed in a supplementary note.

Dates

Creation: 1981-1989

Creator

From the Collection: Forward, Robert L. (Person)

Languages

From the Collection:

The collection is primarily in English. Select material is in German, Japanese, Danish, Spanish, and Slavic languages.

Collection Access

This collection is open for research, with the exception of select files and items that are restricted.

Access to restricted materials is subject to approval. Please submit written requests to the department.

Extent

From the Collection: 60 Linear Feet (2 flat boxes, 16 record storage boxes, 24 document boxes, 108 volumes)

Additional Description

Annotation by Robert L. Forward, 1554 Tuesday 19 Sept 1989

"This was the printout of the largest electronic version of Rocheworld that I could find. It was on USC tape 5WARD as file ROCHEWOR.81JUN24. Jacqueline Stafsudd finally was able to read the ancient tape and transfer it to an IBM compatible disk.

Before I typed this I did a little bit of editing to remove the old word processing formats. I then compared this version, chapter by chapter, with the Baen paperback and the 150,000 25 March 1982 version (bound as Flight of the Dragonfly at Eaton Collection), and made insertions, deletions and changes to get the 17 September 1989 version of Rocheworld (160,000 words + 12 figures).

This involved breaking Karin Krupp back into two females, changing the name of Eve into Shirley, and restoring Dr. Wang as a male who dies on the way to Barnard. I also had to type in the Baen Book chapter "Reporting" and type in the long version of Arielle's "Flight" sequence from the 1982 version.

I will now do a final edit on the 17 September 1989 version."