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From: "Michael F. Stemper" <michael.stemper@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Is use of literary person changing in indie SF?
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 08:48:44 -0500
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On 26/03/2024 10.51, Paul S Person wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 13:13:41 -0500, "Michael F. Stemper"
> <michael.stemper@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 25/03/2024 02.15, Jerry Brown wrote:

>>> I got the large format illustrated version of "Number of the Beast"
>>> which helpfully (and often necessarily) had the current POV character
>>> identified at the top of each page.
>>
>> I just pulled my MMPB off the shelf, and saw that it does this on the
>> odd-numbered pages. Apparently, I was looking back to find out the title
>> of the chapter, although I can't think of why.
> 
> IIRC, I just gave up on it. Either that, or (for some reason) I had no
> trouble knowing who it was.
> 
> Or, of course, I just didn't notice the switches between narrators.
> This was not my favorite book. I liked the alternate version better.

The alternative version being _The Pursuit of the Pankera_? Ted Nolan's
description of it in a different thread makes it sound worth looking into.

As far as TNotB not being a favorite, my first reading of it put me
off of Heinlein for a decade. (Since then, it's become a comfort read,
but please don't tell anybody.)

-- 
Michael F. Stemper
Isaiah 58:6-7