On Tue, 27 May 1997, Susan Armstrong wrote:
> >> Thanks, do you know off hand which fix-up its part of?
> >>
> >> Farah
> >>
> >
> >It isn't part of a fix-up
>
> ummmm.......pardon my ignorance, but... whazzat?
>
> -- Susan
>
> Susan Armstrong * Vancouver, Canada * anariska@mortimer.com
>
It's a term invented by A.E. Van Vogt, to describe the sort of thing that
his _The Voyage of the Space Beagle_ was: a collection of short stories,
usually published separately in the sf magazines, which were linked
together by chractrer and theme, and which were subsequently put together
(with a bit of inter-story stitching) into what purported to be a novel,
i.e. into what was sold by the publishers as a novel, but which was
_really_ a linked collection of stories.
It was quite common in the 1950s, when the new paperback publishers were
putting together books from the stories that had been published in the sf
mags in the 1940s; it hardly exists now, since the short-story market has
declined so much.
Edward James
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