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Originally Posted by Hilarious Joke  1. Great advice Teresa! I hope you know that everyone on the Chron really appreciates the time you take to give us some of your insights into the writing world. |
seconded, HJ!
teresa's right in that science fiction does tend on average to be shorter than fantasy, (and i think that might be because sf explores ideas more than entire worlds by foot).
looking at my bookshelf (the current genre stuff only - most is in boxes in the attic), i don't have many truly short books there. Pratchett's Moving Pictures is 333 pages, David Weber's Short Victorious War is 376 pages, the Dr Who New Adventure "The Also People" (Banks homage, politely
) is 289 pages. everything else is Heavy Weapons, and the fantasy volumes are mostly thicker than the sf ones.
i know that 90% of what i read is breezeblock-thick multi-volume epics, and that probably shapes the way i write too. but i've been reading it long enough that i do know (back to topic) its not a new trend.