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Robert A. Heinlein - The Cat Who Walked Through Walls
Atec Февраль 29 2008 20:18:18
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. I-"
"But he had to, Richard! He couldn't let billions of innocent people die
just to keep from soiling his hands through cooperating with the Overlord. But I
can see your point. Buster and I fought over that episode-Buster wanted to take
advantage of the temporary truce to do the Overlord in, once the space entities
were destroyed-"
"No, Captain Sterling would never break his word."
'True. But Buster was always the pragmatist. His solution to almost any
problem was to cut somebody's throat."
"Well, it's a convincing argument," I admitted.
"But. Richard, you have to go easy in killing off characters in a serial;
you must always leave something for the next episode. But you tell me you've
never handled a series all on your own."
"I haven't but I do know that; I watched enough of them, back when. Hazel,
why did you let me fill you with a lot of guff about the life of a writer?"
"You called me 'Hazel'!"
"Sweetheart-Hazel my darling-I'm not interested in blood types or in
thumbprints. You are undeniably the author of history's greatest creepie The
Scourge of the Spdceways. It said on the credits, week after week, year after
year: 'Written by Hazel Stone.' Then, sadly, it began to read: 'Based on
characters created by Hazel Stone-'"
"It did? Those later credits should have included Roger; he created the
show. Not me
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