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1st chapter of new old stuff. Order of Merit of the Warlord, Third Class.

Transition from text replaced in the Number of the Beast

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“Robert had taken the first 250 pages of manuscript from the fatally mediocre Panki-Barsoom Number of the Beast and set the situation spinning in a new direction.”

Excerpt From
Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century
William H. Patterson, Jr.
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“Heinlein was anxious to get back to writing.19 After only a few days of bed rest, he got out the manuscript for Panki-Barsoom and read it over. It was worse than bad, he told Yoji Kondo later that year: It was mediocre.20 But he must have seen possibilities in it.”

“Ginny read through The Panki-Barsoom Number of the Beast with growing puzzlement. The story was straightforward enough—two newlywed couples fleeing across alternate realities from alien villains he called “Black Hats” (the Barsoomian name for these “vermin” was Pankera, pl. Panki). She put down the manuscript. While it was perfectly competent yard goods, it just wasn’t a Heinlein novel.59”