What is 5HC?

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 10 May 2002, 16:53 · from urth-v0205.mbox · original

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From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <ddanehy at siebel.com>
Subject: (urth) What is 5HC?
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 09:53:06 -0700
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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 --=20
in an online inteview with somebody or other named=20
Nick Gevers, she refers to such book as "story suites,"=20
which I htink is quite apt, but then when is UKLG=20
other than apt?

Anyway, just want to do my bit to help popularize
this useful term.

--Blattid

--=20

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