[SauronOfMordor]

I’m thinking there was a reason why it wasn’t published in his lifetime

A good artist knows when something he’s made is worthy of putting his name to.

[Colinsky]

I’m thinking there was a reason why it wasn’t published in his lifetime

The first of his Senile Period books. As I recall, Mrs. Heinlein told him it was no good and made him run it through the typewriter again.

[vladimir998]

“I’m thinking there was a reason why it wasn’t published in his lifetime. A good artist knows when something he’s made is worthy of putting his name to.”

Maybe, but I remember reading Frank Herbert’s original version of Dune when it was finally published by his son in The Road to Dune and thoroughly enjoying it.