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Title: What happens when a contracted manuscript is rejected?
Review: The author changes a few names and submits it somewhere else, even if it WAS originally written in another author's universe using that other author's outline... A quick search on Usenet will reveal that Charles Sasser was the original coauthor contracted to write "The Hero" with John Ringo, but the manuscript was deemed unrepairable by the publisher and so the contract passed to Mike. Leaving Charles Sasser with a manuscript and no contract for it. As can be seen from the description, little was changed from John Ringo's outline, and some of the alien race names are retained (although anyone calling the Indowy warlike obviously didn't read the other Aldenata books very closely).
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