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Lensman Smith

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.”