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BillMullins
Joined: Thu Aug 21, 2008 12:40 pm Posts: 545
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Heinlein Letter
Famous (sort of) from Heinlein to Sturgeon.
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Mon Oct 01, 2012 8:08 pm |
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JamesGifford
PITA Bred
Joined: Wed Apr 09, 2008 12:17 pm Posts: 2402 Location: The Quiet Earth
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Re: Heinlein Letter
That's a nice find and a nice read. Thanks.
I note that the site containing this apparently collected such things in preparation for publishing a book of such small writings, which, according to the side panel note, is due out.
I'm sure the author tracked down permission for every one of dozens (hundreds?) of "letters, memos, postcards, telegrams, etc." from all these fascinating people. Oh, wait... it's a collective blog on the internet in 2012. Never mind.
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RobWright
Joined: Sun Oct 25, 2009 11:20 am Posts: 156 Location: Cloudcroft New Mexico
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Tue Oct 02, 2012 4:37 pm |
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JamesGifford
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Joined: Wed Apr 09, 2008 12:17 pm Posts: 2402 Location: The Quiet Earth
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Re: Heinlein Letter
Applause, then, for both the work and the attention to the quaint notion of ownership. I did poke around the blog a bit and it seems to be anything but the, er, sort of amateur crap collection that most such sites are.
I am a bit bemused by the current trend of writing your book online and then putting it between two slices of cover, though...
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PeterScott
Heinlein Nexus
Joined: Thu Apr 10, 2008 8:10 am Posts: 2236 Location: Pacific NorthWest
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Re: Heinlein Letter
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JackKelly
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Joined: Thu Apr 10, 2008 7:57 am Posts: 669 Location: DC Metro
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Re: Heinlein Letter
_________________ "Being right too soon is socially unacceptable." - Heinlein, Expanded Universe
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TexasScot1952
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Joined: Thu Apr 17, 2008 9:55 am Posts: 80 Location: DFW, Texas
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Re: Heinlein Letter
The ghost of a little cat looking for a friendly lap, too bad RAH never wrote it. I feel the need to go home and pet my cats.
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Thu Feb 07, 2013 11:35 am |
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RobWright
Joined: Sun Oct 25, 2009 11:20 am Posts: 156 Location: Cloudcroft New Mexico
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Re: Heinlein Letter
My copy of the US publication of Letters of Note arrived today and it is an absolute treat. Ray Bradbury, Kurt Vonnegut, Elvis Presley writing Nixon asking to be a federal agent, & more. I'm enjoying just flipping and reading random letters, love that there is not a pattern to the placement of the letters in the book.
Rob
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sakeneko
Joined: Tue Dec 02, 2008 8:22 am Posts: 603 Location: Reno, NV
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Re: Heinlein Letter
I think I'll pick this up, although it will have to get in line behind volume II of the Patterson Heinlein biography and a number of other books before I'll find time to read it.
_________________ Catherine Jefferson <ctiydspmrz@ergosphere.net> Home Page: http://www.ergosphere.net
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Blackhawk
Joined: Tue Apr 20, 2010 8:51 pm Posts: 240 Location: Alabama, USA
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Re: Heinlein Letter
_________________ Dan Thompson Thunderchild Publishing (http://www.ourworlds.net/thunderchild)
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Tue Jul 29, 2014 10:23 am |
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Dominic
Joined: Thu May 10, 2012 12:39 am Posts: 31
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Re: Heinlein Letter
I couldn't resist the description and ended up subscribing to Letters of Note. It *is* a nice book ... unfortunately, the UK edition doesn't have RAH's letter to Sturgeon.
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MichaelCassutt
Joined: Sun Sep 12, 2010 3:01 pm Posts: 25 Location: Studio City CA
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Thu Jul 31, 2014 6:50 am |
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Blackhawk
Joined: Tue Apr 20, 2010 8:51 pm Posts: 240 Location: Alabama, USA
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Re: Heinlein Letter
Thanks, Michael. I'll have to look those up.
_________________ Dan Thompson Thunderchild Publishing (http://www.ourworlds.net/thunderchild)
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Thu Jul 31, 2014 10:01 am |
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BillMullins
Joined: Thu Aug 21, 2008 12:40 pm Posts: 545
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Re: Heinlein Letter
Sturgeon's collection And Now the News has some good story notes on both stories. You can read snippets on Google Books and Amazon's "Look Inside" feature; just enough to make you want to find a dead-tree version to read them all.
You can read "The Other Man" . Note that Sturgeon named a character in it "Anson" in recognition of the source of the story, and that ANTN has a character named "MacLyle" (from Lyle Monroe).
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Thu Jul 31, 2014 12:45 pm |
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Blackhawk
Joined: Tue Apr 20, 2010 8:51 pm Posts: 240 Location: Alabama, USA
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Re: Heinlein Letter
Thanks, Bill. I don't read dead-tree versions, though, unless that is all that is available. I much prefer digital books.
_________________ Dan Thompson Thunderchild Publishing (http://www.ourworlds.net/thunderchild)
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