Solar Pons - The Basil Copper-edited Derleth Solar Pons

The Basil Copper-edited Derleth Solar Pons

Copper also edited the Pons stories of August Derleth for Arkham House under the title The Solar Pons Omnibus (2 vols, 1982) but made extensive edits in the stories. The stories in Copper's edition are also arranged by their internal chronology, rather than by the date of their release. Copper "edited" the tales in ways that many Pontine aficionados found objectionable - Roger Johnson states "After August Derleth's death the published stories were edited by Basil Copper, who rather controversially corrected many errors and adjusted many Americanisms, into a handsome two-volume omnibus edition."

A later omnibus, The Original Text Solar Pons Omnibus Edition, was issued by Mycroft & Moran in 2000, reverting the stories to Derleth's original versions. The later omnibus also discarded Copper's chronological arrangement in favor of the order in which the stories had appeared in the original Derleth volumes.