On Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:25:20 -0400, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:

ell, just to show you how bad it was, it was rejected something like
25 times by every major scifi house - it's was first published by
Chilton - you know the people who make automobile repair books and
auto parts manuals?

Bull****. It was first published as a five part serial in Analog.

Casady