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A Del Rey Book

Published by Ballantine Books

Copyright © 1989 by the Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein Trust, UDT 20 June 1983

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint the following material: Davis Publications, Inc.: Excerpts from ten letters written by John W. Campbell as editor of Astounding Science Fiction. Copyright ® 1989 by Davis Publications, Inc.

Putnam Publishing Group: Excerpt from the original manuscript of Podkayne of Mars by Robert A. Heinlein. Copyright ® 1963 by Robert A. Heinlein. Reprinted by permission of the Putnam Publishing Group.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 89-6859

ISBN 0-345-36941-6

Manufactured in the United States of America

First Hardcover Edition: January 1990

First Mass Market Edition: December 1990

For Heinlein's Children

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CONTENTS

Foreword

A Short Biography of Robert A.

Heinlein

by Virginia Heinlein i MAPTER i In the Beginning < IIAPTER u Beginnings < MAPTER in The Slicks and the Scribner's

Juveniles

< IIAPTER iv The Last of the Juveniles ' IIAPTER v The Best Laid Plans CHAPTER vi About Writing Methods and

Cutting

CHAPTER vii Building CHAPTER via Fan Mail and Other Time

Wasters

CHAPTER ix Miscellany • IIAPTER x Sales and Rejections ' MAPTER xi Adult Novels i IIAPTER xii Travel CHAPTER XIH Potpourri CHAPTER xiv Stranger CHAPTER xv Echoes from Stranger

AFTERWORD