More Heinlein than you can shake a stick at
I came across the Heinlein archives the other day and was quite astounded. Basically it looks like pretty much everything Robert A Heinlein ever wrote has been scanned, PFD'ed and uploaded. If you want to look at any of it you can. There's a price of course but at $3 for around 200 pages it's pretty reasonable. It would cost a lot to get everything but if, say, you really wanted to read everything he wrote for the movie Destination Moon then for $20 you get:
- Part 1 includes "10 pages of diagrams and calculations about moon flight", "Heinlein’s report on faults and flaws in the script of Destination Moon addressed to George Pal, lengthy with extensive hand-edits", "17 pages, single-spaced by RAH “The Care and Feeding of Spaceships” discussing technical elements for film"
- Part 2 includes "Article in Aviation Week about movie", "1957 letter from an attorney to RAH about possible money from the movie (talks about law suits)", "Notes, calculations and diagrams working out the moon flight and landing. Studio call sheets and shooting schedules for the production"
- Parts 3 to 6 are 5 versions of the script
- Part 7 includes articles about the movie
Alternatively if the history of Stranger in a Strange Land is more your thing then you can get 3865 pages for $38 that include 3 different edits of the book plus supporting articles.
Personally I just always thought that Pixel (a.k.a. The Cat Who Walks Through Walls) was a great name for a cat.

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