OT: further possible examples of story suites

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 15 May 2002, 15:49 · from urth-v0205.mbox · original

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From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <ddanehy at siebel.com>
Subject: RE: (urth) OT: further possible examples of story suites
Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 08:49:54 -0700
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Regarding Le Guin's term "stoy suite," Mantis asks:

> Sounds good.  So would Steinbeck's CANNERY ROW and Jack=20
> Vance's THE DYING
> EARTH both be further examples of "story suites", or are they
> something-else-again?

Haven't read CANNERY ROW (actually I really only discovered
Steinbeck last year, though I'd read & lvoed THE MOON IS DOWN=20
in high school), but if I recall correctly TDE would be more=20
of a fix-up in the classic sense -- similar to (say) van Vogt's
VOYAGE OF THE SPACE BEAGLE or Asimov's original three=20
"Foundation" books. That is, the stories were clearly written
for more or less independent publication and, while they build
on each other, don't totally alter each others' "meaning" the=20
way the stories of 5HC and ICEHENGE do -- the "story suite," as
I am understanding the term, is more closely linked by meaning,
not just sequentiality, than the classic fix-up.

--Dan'l

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