Date: 2017-05-30 03:55 pm (UTC)
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This edition is an entry in the Jim Baen Presents imprint, which consisted largely of reprinted SF novels from earlier decades.

ISFDB suggests this version came out in December of 1981. Ronald Reagan had won the U.S. presidential election about one year earlier, fanning the flames of anti-Communism along the campaign trail.

Might Jim Baen have decided that the political climate was favorable to bring back a flag-draped novel of Cold War paranoia? Would one year have been enough time to get it into the bookstores and bus stations?

Would these considerations bring Baen to ask for a revision, rather than simply Presenting "a pretty good near-future novel written in 1955?"

Now I am curious to read Pohl's foreword and afterword.
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