{"id":2507,"date":"2017-03-17T21:56:04","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T21:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Via-Winchell-Chung-a-letter-from-Robert-Heinlein-to-Larry-Niven-and-Jerry-Pournelle-about-the-book-that-became-The"},"modified":"2017-03-17T21:56:04","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T21:56:04","slug":"via-winchell-chung-a-letter-from-robert-heinlein-to-larry-niven-and-jerry-pournelle-about-the-book-that-became-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2017\/03\/17\/via-winchell-chung-a-letter-from-robert-heinlein-to-larry-niven-and-jerry-pournelle-about-the-book-that-became-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Via Winchell Chung, a letter from Robert Heinlein to Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle about the book that became The&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"        \n<p>Via Winchell Chung, a letter from Robert Heinlein to Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle about the book that became <em>The Mote in God&#8217;s Eye<\/em>. He takes them to task pretty thoroughly for not starting the story until page 100, for numerous errors of naval protocol, and for even more numerous copy editing errors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is what a friend and colleague does. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Originally shared by Dean Calahan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Mote in God&#8217;s Eye<\/em> is usually within my top five, and always within my top ten, science fiction novels*. In my youth, even as a poor college student, I would often almost resent it** when Heinlein came out with a new novel, because I would enter an algorithm by which as soon as I saw it on the stack at the U bookstore I would walk half a block to the ATM and then half a block back to buy the book, no matter the status of my checking account. Hardback. Sometimes cursing in sort of a reflexive <em>Shadenfreude<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, suffice it to say I today have a much more nuanced view of Heinlein and others, and have read Patterson&#8217;s biography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All that said, if you have any interest in the above, and haven&#8217;t read it yet, you will surely be delighted to follow the supplied link, a letter from Robert to Larry and Jerry after reading a draft of their epic novel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*I don&#8217;t really keep a list, but if one were to ask me off hand, this is probably how it would break down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>**Right, not really.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20130701140830\/http:\/\/www.virginiaedition.com\/ve\/TheVirginiaEdition-sample.pdf#page=23<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        Via Winchell Chung, a letter from Robert Heinlein to Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle about the book that became The&#8230;<br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2017\/03\/17\/via-winchell-chung-a-letter-from-robert-heinlein-to-larry-niven-and-jerry-pournelle-about-the-book-that-became-the\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[68],"tags":[94],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}