On Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:17:11 -0400, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:

On Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:15:41 GMT, (Richard
Casady) wrote:

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.

Sorry - nope.

Bought the magazines one by one, all five of them. It was on the
cover, Kelly Freas, twice. I have bought all the Analogs, for that
matter.

Casady