What is 5HC?

The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 10 May 2002
https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/3251

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes10 May 2002, 16:53original
Mark (Nacre) Millman wrote...
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The Fifth Head of Cerberus ... was published by Scribner's in 1972, though not everyone may wish to consider it a novel.
Ursula K. Le Guin has (apparently) recently come up with a useful term for books like 5HC and, another particularly useful example, Kim Stanley Robinson's Icehenge -- i.e., books that are more than story collections or "fixups," but not exactly novels -- in an online inteview with somebody or other named Nick Gevers, she refers to such book as "story suites," which I htink is quite apt, but then when is UKLG other than apt? Anyway, just want to do my bit to help popularize this useful term.

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