LOS ANGELES, Dec. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- What does it take to be professionally published in the United States where only 3 of every 10,000 manuscripts submitted see the light of print? Forget the "great American novel" says multi-New York Times' bestselling author Larry Niven.

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Walk into Seattle's new Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame, and you'll see E.T. the alien, in the (fake) flesh, the creature that became Elliott's best friend in the 1982 movie. Next to him is Capt.