Steven Sarafian
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I have just returned from my second trip to the Will F. Jenkins (Murray Leinster) Collection at Syracuse University. It felt very scholarly to restore, from the manuscript, a line omitted from a '50s novel, lost to some sort of typesetting accident and replaced by a confusing line from an earlier chapter. Do you have any favorite Leinster stories, especially any not among his very most famous?
Lois McMaster Bujold
I last read Leinster in, probably, grade school, so my memory of his work is compost by now. I have a dim association with some sort of space medical drama, if I'm not munging him with his contemporary Alan Nourse. Or James White, tho' the tales I read by him are more distinct, even at this remove.
So, none to report, sorry.
Ta, L.
I last read Leinster in, probably, grade school, so my memory of his work is compost by now. I have a dim association with some sort of space medical drama, if I'm not munging him with his contemporary Alan Nourse. Or James White, tho' the tales I read by him are more distinct, even at this remove.
So, none to report, sorry.
Ta, L.
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