{"id":5866,"date":"2012-03-16T21:54:59","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T01:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=5866"},"modified":"2012-03-16T21:54:59","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T01:54:59","slug":"the-richard-wilson-short-story-collection-you-never-got-a-chance-to-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/16\/the-richard-wilson-short-story-collection-you-never-got-a-chance-to-read\/","title":{"rendered":"The Richard Wilson short story collection you never got a chance to read"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember Richard Wilson? Some of you might, but alas, most probably don’t. Wilson won the Nebula Award for Best Novelette in 1968 for “Mother to the World” (which got him a Hugo nomination, too), and I published his “The Nineteenth Century Spaceship” in Last Wave<\/em><\/a> back in 1984. He died in 1987, and is now mostly forgotten except to the cognoscenti.<\/p>\n

John Pelan of Ramble House is publishing a series of books collecting his short stories—the first volume of which is now on sale<\/a>, and he got in touch with me to see whether I still had copies of the magazine he could use to help in reprinting that latter story. <\/p>\n

But I’d hung on to more than just that. I also had our correspondence regarding that and other submissions. So I sent John scans of a batch of letters, including the one below, which teases with information about a collection editor Terry Carr was considering, one that never came to pass. (Carr also died in 1987.)<\/p>\n

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Ah, the land of Might-Have-Been! That letter is filled with many things which never came to pass.<\/p>\n

For more Wilson, keep up with what Ramble House<\/a>‘s publishing plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember Richard Wilson? Some of you might, but alas, most probably don’t. Wilson won the Nebula Award for Best Novelette in 1968 for “Mother to the World” (which got him a Hugo nomination, too), and I published his “The Nineteenth Century Spaceship” in Last Wave back in 1984. He died in 1987, and is now […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[110,182,56,183],"class_list":["post-5866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-last-wave","tag-richard-wilson","tag-science-fiction","tag-terry-carr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}