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"Hmm. It sounds like a gimmick I might have dreamed up when I was writing
fantasies."
"Yes, it does, doesn't it? Not convincing. Merely true."
"So I see no way to investigate it. Perhaps I'll have to get that
blood-type transcript. Uh- Hazel Stone, Roger Stone- The Scourge of the
Spaceways!"
"My God, my past has caught up with me! Richard, did you ever watch my
show?"
"Every episode, unless I had been caught doing something that called for
drastic punishment. Captain John Sterling was my childhood hero. And you wrote
it?"
"My son Roger started it. I started writing it in 2148 but I didn't put my
name on it until the following year-then it was 'Roger and Hazel Stone'-"
"I remember! But I don't remember that Roger Stone ever wrote it by
himself."
"Oh, yes, he did-until he got tired of the golden treadmill. I took it over
from him, intending to kill it off-"
"Sweetheart, you can't kill off a serial! It's unconstitutional."
"I know. Anyhow, they took up the option and waved too much money under my
nose. And we needed the money; we were living in space then and a spacecraft,
even a little family job, is expensive."
"I've never quite had the courage to write a serial against deadlines. Oh,
I've written episodes on assignment, using a show's bible, but not on my own and
under the gun."
"We didn't use a bible; Buster and I just whipped 'em up as we went along
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