Date: 22 November 1982 1338-EST (Monday)
From: Dan Hoey at CMU-CS-A
To: SF-LOVERS
Subject: James (A.) Mich(e)ner

Recent digests have referred to an author named James Michner (sic).
I am aware of an author named James Albert Michener; I have read his
name on the outside of several very thick books.  Is the author of
Space a different person?  Or has somebody managed to get through one
of those vtb's without getting his name right?  Or, horrors, are we
the victims of an automatic spelling program gone amok?  In the header
of #80, there was even a cryptic reference to Micher!
                        Da Hy

[I confess that it was an editorial error. The name is indeed
Michener.  I seem to recall reading one of his books about 12 years
ago, THE DRIFTERS, and thinking it was quite good: a bunch of young
people wandering around Europe. -- Stuart]