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Dt"ar Gene, I wan delighted to receive the novel with its nice inscri�tion, and

read it at once, After following yo� odyssey in STAR LOG, I was eage:r to know what uort of story you'd evolved, an now I'm even more an>1 ious to see the movie:

�ou know, you really ought to make a 1;arallel of Mel �rook's S LENT MOVIE - to be called S?ACE hOVIE, of cou:rue - based on all you: Jroblems:

riting the outline nf �hat ould certainly allow you to rela�. Maybe Dave Gerrald would like 'to tackle it, just fo un,,,,

Anyway, I enjoyed reading the book; you seem determined to knock down TV ta boou, and I wonder how much of your X -rated material will reach the sc:r een , (I ·particularly liked Kirk's cool 'Just good friendfi • footnote.) But how could you have made that T stand for Tiberiun? That's as bad as christening him James H Kirk .... H for Hitler .... (I'd uay that Adolf was marginally the nicer guy ... )

I' 11 be awaiting news of the release with great interest and wish the movie the bent nf luck,

For myself, I'm back here after winding U) my U,K, affairs this summer (my first tri? outside Sri Lanka in two years, a?art from an unex?ected - and therefore doubly delightful - 10 day cruise to EgyJt on the college shi? SS Universe), I've no ?lans ever tn leave a.gaim, being far too buuy and ha??Y here.

There seems increasing agreement that, as I believe, my final novel THE FOUNT A INS OF' ::?ARADISE is also my best, Ballantine are ·planning a big camj,)aign for it in February,

I met Stan the� when I was in England - he's bought a vaut estate on which he can shoot his own westerns, He still wants to do the good s,f, movie, and I've even given him an outline of what I think it should be, (Not that I'd get involved again - but the challenge intrigues me.)

I've received an excellent scri·,.;,t for CHILDHOOD'S END from Universa.l's ::?hil DeGuer� and some :,.;,romising art-work, but don't know when they'll start product ion ,

Incidentally, I'm an actor myself now� I recently ?layed the :role of Leonard Woolf in a Sinhalese :,.;,roduction of his classic THE VILLAGE IH THE JUNGIE, (Before he married Virginia, he was a government agent here,) Everyone says I was terrific - I do the dubbing next week, and am looking forward to seeing the ?rint, It should be at Cannes next year, and with luck there may be an English version,

Although I've officially retired, I am hosting 13 half hours for ITV -THE MYSTERIOUS WORLDS OF ARTHUd CLA KE, (about scientific mysteries.) All my stuf'f will be done here, though we have crews all over the world

Well, again the best of luck - I ho:,.;,e you do make enough megabucks to get here: (E¥eryone does eventually - I eX?ect the Heinleins in the new year.) Let's kee? in touch -

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