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James Nicoll wrote:
> In article <
eaf13ade-3ae6-42d0...@googlegroups.com>,
> Jack Bohn <
jack....@gmail.com> wrote:
> >James Nicoll wrote:
> >> Unknown edited by Stanley Schmidt
> >>
> >> A Reagan-era anthology drawing from the Roosevelt-era fantasy magazine
> >> Unknown.
> >>
> >>
https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/the-great-unknown
> >
> >Reading the subject line gave me the idea it was a thought experiment:
> >what if Stanley Schmidt had also taken over editorship of Unknown? For
> >`80s theme anthologies, it`s not too far out there. I`m not
> >well-versed to play that game (although typing this, the name Thomas
> >Easton as a contributor jumps up).
> It would have had to be a revival. I can`t recall any revivals for
> Unknown, although I can for other magazines like Galaxy and Weird
> Tales. Actually, it`s kind of funny reading old essays in which
> people lament WT`s demise ... over and over.
Yes, two branches of alternate history, one where Schmidt wants to
revive Unknown, possibly with an original anthology as a feeler, and one
where it published into to `50s, `60s, `70s, and `80s as an additional
position for the editor of Astounding/Analog. I feel the two would be
different, although I can`t say how. And I wonder if Schmidt would, in the
foreword to his anthology test, play that he was collecting a year`s best
from his continuing sister magazine of the alternate universe.
> >New question: have there been such stealth, or even inadvertent
> >magazine-centric anthologies? A few of these six titles you mention
> >seem to avoid mentioning their connection, it remains to be seen how
> >coy they are in their trade dress or editorial matter. A collection of
> >an author`s series stories, or a fixup novel made from them are among
> >what I would call inadvertent.
> >
>There are authors who seem to sell to one magazine, sometimes one
>editor, so their collections would effectively be of that magazine
>under that author.
This could be a case similar, in that the anthologist likes what
the editor publishes. Possibly most pronounced in the case of Unknown
and its flavor of Ye Moderne Fantasy. I can see something similar for
Astounding. Or someone, with malice aforethought might put out a Dean Drive and
Hieronymus Machine Anthology.
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