July 16, 1952:
Robert A. Heinlein to Lurton Blassingame,
on writing what would become Stranger in a Strange Land —
". . . . Yes, I am still having trouble with that novel. . . .
The story itself is giving me real trouble. I believe that
I have dreamed up a really new S-F idea, a hard thing
to do these days—but I am having trouble coping with it."
Also on that date —
The next day . . .
