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this was a novel. The storm had a name. It was called Maria.

This book made George Stewart famous. The next book that he wrote was called Fire, which was about the California Fire Conservation Corps and how they fight a great forest fire. Those were his two biggest books. He's written several less successful books since. He just had a book published last month on pollution of the waterways.

By you?

No. We came to a parting of the way. He was a professor out at the University of California. He wrote fascinating books, but I found him an unbelievably dull man.

That wasn't the reason that you stopped publishing him.

No, he got disillusioned with us. He didn't think that we were paying enough attention to him, and I guess that he was right.

Would you say that sometimes it is a good--you couldn't legitimately say this as a publisher, but being a publisher and author--for an author to leave a publisher?

Yes. Sometimes when the chemistry is not right, the relationship just doesn't work out. It may be nobody's fault. In the case of George Stewart, I would say that it was more my