World-building in short stories

Nicholas Gevers · 28 Jun 2003, 07:43 · from urth-v0306.mbox · original

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Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 08:43:56 +0100 (BST)
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Interesting comments regarding "Semley's Necklace". It
strikes that me that one quite famous novelette--Jack
Vance's "The New Prime"--builds not one world but six,
each in a dense vignette. That story dates from the
Fifties. Vance had the cheek to make contemporary
Earth one of the six, a place no less exotic and
bizarre than the rest.

--Nick Gevers.

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