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GRUMBLES
FROM THE GRAVE
Robert A. Heinlein
Edited by Virginia Heinlein
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 89-6859
ISBN 0-345-36941-6
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
APPENDIX A Cuts in Red Planet
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APPENDIX B Postlude to Podkayne of Mars— 297
Original Version APPENDIX c Heinlein Retrospective, October 304
6, 1988
Bibliography 309
Index 315
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FOREWORD
This book does not contain the polished prose one normally associates with the Heinlein stories and articles of later years. It has been taken from the day-to-day correspondence between the author and his agent, and from letters from several others, many of which have been excerpted. s