Old timey SF novels were so short

And yet somehow they managed to create complete works in 80,000 words when certain other authors, not naming names, churn out books five times as long that are in no way complete.

(By old timey, I mean "George H.W. Bush Administration")

Is it finally time

For a Batroc the Leaper movie?

What does

Shakespeare's NIXON look like?

I find it completely believable that a company that I have never done business with

Would email me a customer appreciation gift certificate and will most certainly open the attachment. Also I do not find it in any way suspicious that the originating email address is not that of the company.