I don't think it was that bad, just a little tightening. The others, I don't know about. A friend told me that Puppet Masters changed quite a bit. ----- Original Message ----- From: E. To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 6:56 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: 3 new Heinlein books Makes one wonder what they did to Stranger in a Strange Land. Michael Valentine Smith must have been hard for someone to take. E.