Brave New Worlds anthology

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Brave New Worlds anthology

1Maddz
Apr 17, 7:34 am

The anthology Brave New Worlds has gone through a couple of editions with changes to the contents. Also it seems there's differences between the print and ebook versions. My second edition ebook copy is ISBN 9781597804554 so I have contents for that, but I don't know about the other versions.

Does anyone have any suggestions how to handle these? My gut feeling is to split out the different ISBNs and set them up as a series. Basically, I'm working my way through various of my anthologies & collections and entering the individual short stories as 'contained within'.

2Maddz
Edited: Apr 17, 7:42 am

Looking up the print editions on Abebooks:

1st edition trade ppk: 1597802212 / 9781597802215

2nd edition: 1597804541 / 9781597804547

Which probably makes 1597802883 / 9781597802888 the first edition ebook?

3Nevov
Apr 17, 8:11 am

There's a listing for it on ISFDB that could be useful for working it out as far as contents goes:
https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1205698

4Nevov
Apr 17, 8:14 am

I don't know if a series is worthwhile, when it's versions of one anthology, but a work-to-work of expanded would fit for sure.

5Maddz
Apr 17, 8:26 am

That's just it, 'expanded' is the best fit, but my take is that it's not exactly expanded. 'Expanded' implies it contains all the material from the earlier edition plus extra material. These don't; stories from the earlier editions are missing from the later editions, and there's also new material.

I've run across this in the Mammoth Whodunnit anthologies (I have a couple in print and ebook), but there the ebook is missing some of the print stories. Same with the Liavek shared world anthologies: the 5 books of the print editions turned into 8, and some stories were moved into single author collections.

'Revised' would be better, but we don't have that option. This is why not having an edition layer is a problem.

This particular anthology seems to be particularly egregious.

6Maddz
Apr 17, 8:29 am

>3 Nevov: That's useful: it also highlights the ToC order changes between editions. If we ever get a dedicated ToC field, that's going to cause problems between editions.

7Nevov
Edited: Apr 17, 2:25 pm

I see what you mean, re expanded and the implication it's all and more. Could a disambiguation note, acting as a sort of disclaimer to the work-to-work relationship, explaining how it is not a 'pure' expansion, "This is the second edition with 11 stories instead of 8 however ... was omitted", that sort of thing, be the best way to handle it?