It's a trivial matter, but I'm curious. Did CAS revise the "Seedling of Mars" between its first magazine appearance in 1931 and its appearance in Tales of Science and Sorcery in 1964?

I ask because the reference in the fourth paragraph to Chinese Soviets seems pretty prescient for 1931. I suspect a post-WWII revision. There's also the line "... Germany, whose intentions were still suspected" which could fit in 1931 but also seems more post-WWII.

No. We compared the original TM, the WSA version, and the TSS versions for the Night Shade collection, and the reference to the Chinese Soviets was present.
Scott

"The second classification might be termed, "highly imaginative stories." These are stories of advancement in the sciences and the arts to which the generation of the writer who creates them has not attained. All writers of such stories are prophets, and in the years to come, many of these prophecies will come true."

See this article written in 1924 for Weird Tales: [www.weird-tales.com]

We have seen the darkness
Where charnel things decay,
Where atom moves with atom
In shining swift array,
Like ordered constellations
On some sidereal way.
--from Nyctalops



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