# What is 5HC? *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 10 May 2002* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Dan'l Danehy-Oakes *10 May 2002, 16:53* Mark (Nacre) Millman wrote... > _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. ---