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guess who just met Alice Sheldon's grandson. he knew she wrote stories, but had never read any of them or been told much about her. the extended family, I gather, was rather dysfunctional. he did know where she worked and what she did. he had not been told the true story of her death and he never read any of her writing. not very interested in fiction. he told me that she was the first female analyst at the CIA, and I said, was her name Alice Shelton. the rest is history. I told him how important she was to the field of science fiction. he had no idea.