![]() Since the "original uncut" blurb soon gave way to a "now a major motion picture" blurb (and more recent printings may not say anything at all), here are two ways to tell which version you have. The edition I remember buying around 1992 because it proclaimed it was "the original uncut novel" had this cover art: There was no indication of this change anywhere except for a tiny notice on the copyright page and an "original uncut" blurb on the cover. ![]() Instead, around 1990, a new printing of the mass market paperback edition in print at the time (del rey I think?) switched from the shorter to the longer text from one printing to the next. The uncut version of Puppet Masters did not get a new hardcover edition like Stranger did. This is covered in his correspondence with his agent at the time, in Grumbles from the grave. The original novel version and the original magazine version were definitely not the same - the magazine editor made unauthorized changes, and Heinlein did not like that at all. All printings of all editions since 1990 have been of the longer version. ![]() As far as I know, it is no longer possible to obtain the original, shorter version of the novel except from used bookstores. ![]()
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