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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Almost a certainty. It was published in 1984 (so the latest he could have sold it was 1982) and it was his first published novel. Probably spent years on the query go round.
(Niven and Pournelle are two that come to mind that go back to the Cromemco CP/M boxes.)
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Actually,
Icehenge is reworked from 2 novellas, published in 1980 and 1982.
I knew one author who submitted a battered typescript in the mid 90s. He'd obviously been working on it for many years (numerous corrections on it). My first advice to him was to for God's sake get it typed into a computer file.