I’ve no doubt Elwood acted badly, and little doubt at all that most of the assertions about made by Teresa Nielsen Hayden are correct. I’m interested, though, on the idea that he made an indelibly negative impact on the anthology market. I’m not sure the statistics back that up.

If you are interested in the career of Roger Elwood, then you MUST get a copy of the Tor paperback re-issue of Piers Anthony’s novel BUT WHAT OF EARTH?

Elwood actually talked Anthony into submitting a novel to be included in the now-defunct Laser Books line in the mid-1970′s. Anthony obliged with BUT WHAT OF EARTH?, whereupon Elwood gave the manuscript over to fledging fiction author Buck Coulson to do extensive revisions, and then published the book as a collaboration between the two, eviscerating Anthony’s original book! Anthony knew nothing about this until locating the book at a bookstand!

Tom Dean, a.k.a. “William Atheling III”
Canal Fulton, Ohio
Across the (Big) Pond