Urth Net
What is 5HC?
Mark (Nacre) Millman wrote...
3 quoted lines
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.