Аннотация
Robert A. Heinlein
Grumbles From the Grave
Edited by Virginia Heinlein
For Heinlein's Children
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.
Such cutting eliminates a great deal of tedious back-and-forth correspondence concerning details of contracts, discussions about royalty rates, and other items which would hold up the flow of information about the writing business (and other things). This book has been abstracted from enormous files, which run millions of words long, much of it boring to those not concerned with the daily business of writing and selling.
Many people have asked me to consider writing Robert's biography, or a joint one-his and mine-but I am not ready to do that yet. Perhaps, one...
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