Solar ash the aggrieved stranger5/16/2023 ![]() ![]() That night he went into his study, and wrote some lengthy notes, and set them aside.įor the title "Gulf" he wrote quite a different story. The idea was just too big for a short story, Robert said, but he made a note about it. Among other unsuitable notions, I suggested a story about a human infant, raised by an alien race. Robert's problem, then, was to find a story to fit the title assigned to him. This issue came to be known as the "Time Travel" issue. ![]() Most of the other authors also went along with the gag. Robert promised to deliver a short story to go with the title. Campbell, Jr., and Robert, it was decided that there would be sufficient lead time to allow all the stories that the fan had titled to be written, and the magazine to come out in time for the November 1949 date. In a long conversation between that editor, John W. Among the titles was to be a story by Robert A. The November 1948 issue of Astounding Science Fiction contained a letter to the editor suggesting titles for the issue of a year hence. This book was so different from what was being sold to the general public, or to the science fiction reading public in 1961 when it was published, that the editors required some cutting and removal of a few scenes that might then have been offensive to public taste. So, taking an average of about 275 words, with the manuscript running 800 pages, we get a total of 220,000 words, perhaps a bit more. Robert's manuscript copy usually contained about 250 to 300 words per page, depending on the amount of dialogue on the pages. The earlier edition contained a few words over 160,000, while this one runs around 220,000 words. This edition is the original one - the way Robert Heinlein first conceived it, and put it down on paper. IF YOU THINK that this book appears to be thicker and contain more words than you found in the first published edition of Stranger in a Strange Land, your observation is correct. Heinlein - A Stranger in a Strange Land v2 A Stranger in a Strange Land ![]()
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