I’m currently reading “The Number of the Beast” by Robert Heinlein. Book is from the 1980s, and there’s a completely doubled up paragraph in the book! It spans two pages but the image shows enough I think.

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    1 day ago

    The anecdote that I heard about “Stranger…” is the Heinlein made more money from film options than he ever made from book sales. Apparently, David Bowie and dozens of other folks wanted to make the movie, but it never came together.

    Enjoy.

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        5 hours ago

        I’ve never seen the movie, but apparently Bowie stole a lot of ‘Stranger…’ for ‘The Man Who Fell To earth.’

        Movies were a bit wilder back in the day. “Little Big Man” painted Custer as an incompetent psychopath and John Waters’ “Female Trouble” ran in main stream movie houses.

        Personally, I think a six to eight hour limited series would be the way to go.