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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.
I picked this up this afternoon in Forbidden Planet since it was, cheap, written by Brian K Vaughan (Y:The Last Man and Deus Ex Machine which are both very good), and I had vague memory if reading that Joss Whedon was going to be taking it over soon.
It suddenly came to my attention recently that DC had been not only republishing the Alan Moore run on Swamp Thing in trade paperback collections again but they had decided to continue on into the Rick Veitch set of stories. The previous set of collections included the first few Veitch penned items that wrapped up Alan Moore's run and brought Swamp Thing back to Earth but then stopped.
Whilst picking up some essentials from Borders yesterday (guide to North Devon for an upcoming short break there) I spotted that they were doing a 3 for 2 deal on the new Torchwood books. So out of curiosity I decided to pick them up. When paying up the guy behind the till offered up "Bet you a fiver the Dan Abnett one's the best" and when I mentioned I didn't have high expectations of them came back with "well they can't be worse than the series, can they?".
From Comic Book Resources - CBR News - The Comic Wire
Templesmith ran down his laundry list of upcoming projects as well: ... "And hopefully another monthly (or semi-monthly thing) from IDW called 'Wormwood,' if the gods are kind to me…and the sleep deprivation doesn't kill me. This would be a more personal thing, offbeat crazy stuff-- like a Guinness-drinking, slightly black, horror version of the old Doctor Who, but he sleeps with his companions, is a bit of a bastard, and already happens to be dead."
