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Cosmopolis#50 COSMOPOLIS number 50 June 2004 COSMOPOLIS NUMBER 50 l A GOLDEN MILESTONE Most publications begin with carefully defined goals, effort, it describes the evolution of the VIE’s rigorous financing, staff, and enough articles accumulated to process to restore and preserve the wonder of Jack suffice for at least the first few issues. Marketing and Vance’s artistry, it illuminates just how important each advertising revenues are major considerations, for without volunteer is to the entire project. them, failure is around the corner. Endorsements from well-known authors and critics are crucial. This is This issue of Cosmopolis reports that the Vance Integral all the stuff of a good publishing business plan. With Edition project is over 75% of the way toward reaching these in hand, fifty issues is an optimistic but hopefully its goal. Ah, but it also retains that spirit of camaraderie reasonable objective. And then there was the concept for that exists among the volunteers, as evidenced by Chuck Cosmopolis... King’s article reminding friends around the world of his favorite elixir and inviting them to share it with This, the 50th issue of Cosmopolis, is the most recent him. Richard Chandler’s eighth article analyzing Jack evidence of a vast work-product produced by volunteers, Vance’s forays into astrophysics is a complete joy to read, most of whom lack any experience in journalistic even if parts might be beyond the comprehension of the publishing. Cosmopolis was conceived to be simply a average non-physicist. And Scanner/Imp Joel Hedlund means of generating interest in and support for a much suggests that all of the momentum that has attended the larger vision: publishing forty-four volumes containing VIE might not and perhaps should not be lost when the the collected works of an author deemed worthy of such last of the VIE’s forty-four volumes have been shipped. an effort. That simple vision has guided the collective These articles portray the true spirit of the VIE’s efforts of hundreds of volunteers through millions of volunteers’ vivacious zest for the interesting and better words for over four years. things in life. The differences between the first and fiftieth issues All who have been involved with the Vance Integral are readily apparent. And it is not just the differences Edition are grateful for and indebted to those who in fonts, in composition skills, or subject matter of conceived of Cosmopolis, to those who have contributed the articles that catch one’s attention. From the first their time and skills toward producing issue after issue, issue’s opening header: “Welcome to Cosmopolis” and a and to those whose articles, reports and letters added general description of what the Vance Integral Edition breadth and spice. It is a very significant publication was actually going to attempt, Cosmopolis became the and everyone involved should rightly be proud of their focal point of the entire volunteer effort to reprint the contributions to Cosmopolis. Well done! Jack Vance writings of . It chronicles the progress of that David Reitsema h Editor CONTENTS v SUBSCRIPTION REMINDERS v v v Readers Set: 44 volumes . $1500 Work Tsar Status Report as of May 23, 2004 Deluxe Set: 44 volumes . $3000 Joel Reidesel . 2 Special Collections: 11 volumes . $475 You Have Done It..., Hans van der Veeke . 2 Ellery Queen volume . $45 Pao & Dragon Masters . $32 TI Honor Roll . 5 The Languages of Pao/Dragon Masters volume is currently available. 38’S Crucible, Paul Rhoads . 7 a It also comes in a Deluxe edition for $80. The Ellery Queen volume is The Vancian Pursuit of Whiskey Appreciation, Revisited, available at a discounted price to Set or Special Collection subscribers. Chuck King . 18 a Prices do not include delivery. a The Reader’s Edition subscription price comes to $34 per volume. The Mathematical Vance, #8, Richard Chandler . 19 a VIE books are made with archival quality materials and COSMOPOLIS l 50 Issues, Bob Lacovara, Editor Emeritus . 20 workmanship. a See the VIE website for other offers and full details. d h d D d h d s s s cosmopolis 50 • 1 d. Or go to the page directly: www.vie-tracking.com/ Work Tsar Status Report www/credits/ as of May 23, 2004 In this issue I would like to put the spotlight on Rob Friefeld. Rob is one of the diligent workers who don’t d There are only 2 texts remaining in TI: Lurulu and The Star King. get much attention but do a lot of work. Let me quote one of the emails I received which is indicative of his d Two texts are being Implemented. value to our efforts: d Four texts are in initial composition and eight texts Folks, Rob F saved our cookies on this text. The cor-v1 he in stages of composition review (CRT and composition received for seconding had 563 endnotes. He took a look at updating). the scans of the original magazine appearance and found some more issues…The endnote count went to 715. Bravo, Rob F! d There is one text in Post Proof and four texts in Post Proof composition updating and review. This is about one of the stories which will be published d There are 10 volumes ready for processing. Five are in a totally revised version in the VIE. in front matter composition and updating and five have Besides that Rob was TI-Wallah on Bad Ronald, The completed VPP. Chasch, Cugel: the Skybreak Spatterlight, D.P., The Dirdir, The Last Month: Domains of Koryphon, Hard Luck Diggings, The Houses of Iszm, The Howling Bounders, The King of Thieves, The Last Castle, Masquerade d In-TI: 2 texts (2.44%) on Dicantropus, Milton Hack from Zodiac, Noise, The Pnume, Ports d Post-TI: 23 texts (28.05%) of Call, Rhialto the Marvellous, Sanatoris Short-cut, Spa of the Stars, d Volume Ready: 57 texts (69.51%) The Unspeakable McInch and The Wannek. d Volumes Ready: 7 (31.82%) This Month: And Rob was also TI-second on The Anome, The Blue World, Cugel the Clever, The Devil On Salvation Bluff, Guyal of Sfere, d In-TI: 2 texts (2.44%) Post-TI: 19 texts (23.17%) The House Lords, The Killing Machine, The Kragen, The Men Return, d The Miracle Workers, The Narrow Land, Phalid’s Fate, Ports of Call, d Volume Ready: 61 texts (74.39%) Volumes Ready: 10 (45.45%) Sabotage on Sulfur Planet, Seven Exits from Bocz, Son of the Tree, d The Star King, The Ten Books, To B or Not to C or to D, The Uninhib- Joel Riedesel ited Robot, Vandals of the Void and The Visitors. So Rob, please take some time to relax in the special section of the Nympharium. Your place has a ‘reserved’ You Have Done It! sign and is waiting for you! VIE Work Credits Now back to business, last month there were no fin- Compiled by Hans van der Veeke ished texts so there were no credits. But this month we are making up for it. Four completed texts which in Let me start by saying that I am quite happy that the turn completed three more volumes. Here are the new credits are published here. If we had not, we would have completions: had Mark Shoulder missing from the credits in several volumes. Mark did post-proofing onThe Deadly Isles (Vol. The Palace of Love 14), The Brave Free Men (Vol. 27) and A Telephone Was Ring- Finished 11 May 2004 ing in the Dark and somehow was forgotten. Luckily, Mark spotted the error and notified me so we could repair the Digitizer DD-Jockey damage. Suan Hsi Yong Hans van der Veeke Sorry about that Mark, but this at least shows this col- Pre-proofers umn has a reason to exist. DD-Monkey Deborah Cohen Patrick Dusoulier Please check the credits below. If your name is mis- Rob Gerrand spelled or missing; let me know at [email protected]. Dirk Jan Verlinde The credits of all finished (Wave 2) texts can also be Technoproofer Patrick Dusoulier found on the VIE site: DD-Scanners a. go to www.vanceintegral.com Mark Adams Special tasks Richard Chandler b. click on Editors only Marc Herant c. click on Volunteer Credits (second link from top) Charles King cosmopolis 50 • 2 TI TI DD-Scanners Parapsyche Patrick Dusoulier Rob Friefeld Charles King Finished 19 May 2004 Rob Friefeld Steve Sherman Peter Strickland Alun Hughes Tim Stretton Dave Worden Digitizer Steve Sherman Harrison Watson Jr. Donna Adams DD-Jockey Implementation Implementation David Reitsema Special reformatting Derek W. Benson Donna Adams Patrick Dusoulier Joel Hedlund Joel Hedlund DD-Monkey David A. Kennedy Pre-proofers Composition Composition Patrick Dusoulier John A. Schwab Andreas Irle Technoproofer Carl Goldman Rob Friefeld Gan Uesli Starling RTF-diffing RTF-diffing Patrick Dusoulier Patrick Dusoulier TI DD-Scanners Bill Schaub Bill Schaub Rob Friefeld Joel Hedlund John Rick Charles King Composition Review Composition Review Steve Sherman Dave Worden Marcel van Genderen Marcel van Genderen Tim Stretton Charles King Karl Kellar Bob Luckin DD-Jockey Bob Luckin Implementation Damien G. Jones Correction Validation David Reitsema Correction Validation Hans van der Veeke Bob Luckin DD-Monkey Bob Luckin David A. Kennedy Post-proofing Composition “King Kragen’s Exemplary Corps” Post-proofing Joel Anderson Technoproofer Robert Melson (team manager) “Dragon Masters” Rob Friefeld Neil Anderson Erik Arendse (team manager) RTF-diffing Michel Bazin Scott Benenati Patrick Dusoulier TI Mark Bradford Angus Campbell-Cann Charles King Mike Berro Patrick Dusoulier Patrick Dusoulier Rob Friefeld Martin Green Marcel van Genderen Composition Review Steve Sherman Lucie Jones Yannick Gour Christian J.
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