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- Verified Buyer
NESFA Press is an absolute boon to the SF field, dedicated to bringing out a series of fat, nicely made hardcovers that rescue some of the best classic SF from oblivion. In their way, these books represent the field's own Library of America -- which is why they can be so very, very frustrating at times.Plainly stated, the NESFA books are uniformly plagued by the WORST proofreading I have ever seen. I understand that this is a very small press that undoubtedly relies on volunteers, but they're charging significant prices for their stuff, and they owe the buying public a little more. I'm a professional editor and each typo makes me cringe a little -- and I've got a lot of cringing to do to get through a typical volume. Dropped punctuation, variant spellings, mangled sentences, you name it. I can't think of a single one of their books with a professional level of copy editing.Robots and Magic takes the cake, though. The charming story "The Smallest God" is missing 13 paragraphs, right out of the middle!PLEASE get your act together, guys!