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Originally Posted by Ursa major  Charles Stross had two novellas (The Atrocity Archives and The Concrete Jungle) published in the same volume, which took the name of the first. When I bought it, I did so thinking it was a (shortish) novel and I guess it helped that one novella led directly into the next.
Was Stross was able to do this becuase he was a known quantity as a novellist (as well as, of course, the quality of his writing and imagination)? |
Yes. If he'd been otherwise unpublished, Orbit wouldn't have been able to do this.