Posted by: Kurt
« on: February 09, 2011, 09:17:37 PM »There is a large chunk of the book that was cut and then published in "N-Space" by Niven, in 1990. Iy was cut from the front of book, on the advice, I believe, of R. A. Heinlein. Worth reading but not worth buying the book to read, in my opinion.
IIRC, there was also an initial sequence involving combat between the MacArthur and the rebel cruiser which was cut for length reasons. Pournelle later published it in one of his anthologies, either War World or There Will be War, or something like that. Interesting read, but not vital to the story, which is why they removed it.