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Old 5th November 2005, 05:42 PM   #17 (permalink)
Shoegaze99
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Re: Short stories vs novels

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Originally Posted by chrispenycate
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
In all fairness to Clarke, he did not write the follow-ups to Rama, Gentry Lee did. While Clarke's name is the one featured, his role was limited to providing a bunch of ideas and some framework and his universe to Lee, who did the actual nitty gritty writing.

Which is kind of why the sequels were so poor.
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