| Re: Short stories vs novels
"Earthlight" was the first real science fiction novel that I read (at nine) It was also the first in which (considerably later) I found a technical error (not the last though)
Still, one of his great strengths (noticably reduced in his later work, particularly in the "Rama" series) was knowing the right length for a story, not trying to pad out a short story or a novellamaking for several excellent shorts. |