Grumbles from the Grave by Robert A. Heinlein, Virginia Heinlein Page A
Authors: Robert A. Heinlein, Virginia Heinlein
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the necessity of smooth-typing it will keep me from sending it on earlier than about the first week in April. I have told Miss Dalgliesh.
April 1, 1951: Robert A. Heinlein to Lurton Blassingame
Herewith two copies of Between Planets. In this same mail I have sent Miss Dalgliesh an airmail postcard telling her that the ms. will arrive in New York at the same time she receives the card (or should). Since they are so anxious to have it at the earliest possible date, will you please send the original over to her at once?
May 31, 1951: Lurton Blassingame to Robert A. Heinlein
Word from Blue Book taking Between Planets, paying $1,000. Scribner will publish about 1 November, allowing Blue Book to schedule story for September or October issue.
June 3, 1951: Robert A. Heinlein to Lurton Blassingame
Good news indeed about the sale of Between Planets to Blue Book. Please tell Kennicott [Donald Kennicott, editor of Blue Book, who knew nothing of science fiction except H. G. Wells's title] that there is no resemblance at all between Wells's War of the Worlds and my Between Planets —also that he should read Wells's book; it's a dilly. The move-overs should resemble in appearance the mythological fauns or satyrs, the "goat-men," but should avoid too close a resemblance, i.e., avoid terrestrial musculature, articulation, and physiognomy, both of goats and men. Faunus veneris is a biped, horned, and smaller than a man, but its appearance merely suggests the faun of Greek mythology. It is not actually related to any earthian life form; there is plenty of elbow room for the artist to use his imagination.
June 28, 1951: Lurton Blassingame to Robert A. Heinlein (telegram)
Scribner's proofs on their way airmail special delivery.
THE ROLLING STONES
(64)
Heinlein tried to make The Rolling Stones wholesome, but Dalgliesh saw some Freudian connotations in Heinlein's creation of "Flat Cats."
Castor and Pollux Stone, seventeen-year-old twins, go into space with their unusual family in a secondhand spaceship, called The Rolling Stone. They take along a cargo of battered bicycles to trade to settlers on Mars.
Grandmother Hazel and their father, Roger Stone, support the project by writing episodes for The Scourge of the Spaceways, one of whose characters is the Galactic Overlord. Three episodes a week is their normal output.
The twins buy a Martian flat cat, Fuzzy Britches, a creature most people enjoy petting. In transit they find that flat cats multiply with extreme rapidity, given sufficient food. They are forced to put the creatures into deep freeze.
In the asteroid belt, the twins create a demand for the flat cats, now thawed, selling them to lonely miners.
December 1, 1951: Robert A. Heinlein to Lurton Blassingame
The boys' novel Rolling Stones is about a quarter finished, smooth draft—and an unsatisfactory story line thereafter. The trouble is that I am trying to do domestic comedy this time with nothing much in the way of revolutions and blood—and I find comedy harder to write. Oh, I can keep up wisecracking dialog all too easily, but the characters have to do something too, something important. With space warfare and intrigue ruled out by the nature of the story I find that a problem. Story centers around twin boys and their eccentric family. Family goes to asteroids in family spaceship, get into various sorts of trouble, get out again.
January 5, 1952: Robert A. Heinlein to Lurton Blassingame
The new boys' novel, The Rolling Stones, is rolling along. I am hard at work seven days a week.
January 15, 1952: Robert A. Heinlein to Lurton Blassingame
I heard from Miss Dalgliesh about Rolling Stones; she is enthusiastic.
March 8, 1952: Robert A. Heinlein to Lurton Blassingame
I am sorry to say that I am again having "sex" trouble with Miss Dalgliesh—she has decided (from her Olympian heights as an amateur Freudian) that The Rolling Stones contains some really dangerously evil connotations. Her letter was rather horrid
April 1, 1951: Robert A. Heinlein to Lurton Blassingame
Herewith two copies of Between Planets. In this same mail I have sent Miss Dalgliesh an airmail postcard telling her that the ms. will arrive in New York at the same time she receives the card (or should). Since they are so anxious to have it at the earliest possible date, will you please send the original over to her at once?
May 31, 1951: Lurton Blassingame to Robert A. Heinlein
Word from Blue Book taking Between Planets, paying $1,000. Scribner will publish about 1 November, allowing Blue Book to schedule story for September or October issue.
June 3, 1951: Robert A. Heinlein to Lurton Blassingame
Good news indeed about the sale of Between Planets to Blue Book. Please tell Kennicott [Donald Kennicott, editor of Blue Book, who knew nothing of science fiction except H. G. Wells's title] that there is no resemblance at all between Wells's War of the Worlds and my Between Planets —also that he should read Wells's book; it's a dilly. The move-overs should resemble in appearance the mythological fauns or satyrs, the "goat-men," but should avoid too close a resemblance, i.e., avoid terrestrial musculature, articulation, and physiognomy, both of goats and men. Faunus veneris is a biped, horned, and smaller than a man, but its appearance merely suggests the faun of Greek mythology. It is not actually related to any earthian life form; there is plenty of elbow room for the artist to use his imagination.
June 28, 1951: Lurton Blassingame to Robert A. Heinlein (telegram)
Scribner's proofs on their way airmail special delivery.
THE ROLLING STONES
(64)
Heinlein tried to make The Rolling Stones wholesome, but Dalgliesh saw some Freudian connotations in Heinlein's creation of "Flat Cats."
Castor and Pollux Stone, seventeen-year-old twins, go into space with their unusual family in a secondhand spaceship, called The Rolling Stone. They take along a cargo of battered bicycles to trade to settlers on Mars.
Grandmother Hazel and their father, Roger Stone, support the project by writing episodes for The Scourge of the Spaceways, one of whose characters is the Galactic Overlord. Three episodes a week is their normal output.
The twins buy a Martian flat cat, Fuzzy Britches, a creature most people enjoy petting. In transit they find that flat cats multiply with extreme rapidity, given sufficient food. They are forced to put the creatures into deep freeze.
In the asteroid belt, the twins create a demand for the flat cats, now thawed, selling them to lonely miners.
December 1, 1951: Robert A. Heinlein to Lurton Blassingame
The boys' novel Rolling Stones is about a quarter finished, smooth draft—and an unsatisfactory story line thereafter. The trouble is that I am trying to do domestic comedy this time with nothing much in the way of revolutions and blood—and I find comedy harder to write. Oh, I can keep up wisecracking dialog all too easily, but the characters have to do something too, something important. With space warfare and intrigue ruled out by the nature of the story I find that a problem. Story centers around twin boys and their eccentric family. Family goes to asteroids in family spaceship, get into various sorts of trouble, get out again.
January 5, 1952: Robert A. Heinlein to Lurton Blassingame
The new boys' novel, The Rolling Stones, is rolling along. I am hard at work seven days a week.
January 15, 1952: Robert A. Heinlein to Lurton Blassingame
I heard from Miss Dalgliesh about Rolling Stones; she is enthusiastic.
March 8, 1952: Robert A. Heinlein to Lurton Blassingame
I am sorry to say that I am again having "sex" trouble with Miss Dalgliesh—she has decided (from her Olympian heights as an amateur Freudian) that The Rolling Stones contains some really dangerously evil connotations. Her letter was rather horrid
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