>I'm under the impression that Tales of the Lensmen is a licensed
>product, and that they work from actual after-action reports and
>interviews with the Lensmen, rather than making everything up from
>whole cloth.

Well, I've always assumed that $NAME Loves Corwin stories were generally based on a core of truth as well, some with more liberties taken than others. (In my headcanon, for instance, the incident inspiring Clarissa Loves Corwin involved a different person entirely.)

I don't know, vague feelings of unease are vague.

-IA.

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