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On Tue, 27 Jan 2015 11:35:34 -0600, TreeSaver <Enjoy!@gmail.com>
wrote:

>On Tue, 27 Jan 2015 10:19:08 -0500, Boyo@the.pub wrote:
>
>>Uncensored? WTF? Strange as it seems for a pastoralist sci-fi writer
>>Like Simak a sub-plot involving a Christian group seeking to block
>>access to the time of Jesus had been hacked entirely from the edition
>>that this was scanned from. That was NOT the Del Ray edition used for
>>the cover and title page as that edition was used to restore the
>>missing text. I felt it offensive that some editor at some point after
>>the books initial publication felt free to remove sections of text he
>>found offensive.
>
>How would I know if it was censored or not? Give me some example and I
>will check the copys I have.
>
>TreeSaver

Most but not all of it is in chapter 26. The full text version ends
the chapter with "I had a gone feeling in my guts." The edited version
removes all references to religion and in the one instance it didn't,
chapter 23, replaced Jesus with Mohammud.

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