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Originally Posted by Giovanna Clairval  It is a phase the genre is traversing, a mirror of the sentiments of what has been called "the lost generation". But I think that something is stirring... |
I hope you are right; not only because of all the reasons I've stated before, but because it would provide something in the way of variety.
As for what constitutes a novel (Wasn't that question asked in another thread? I'm confused), I suspect the ultra-literary establishment would reject any definitions put forward by the Hugo Award committee because they're all genre writers. However, my husband's desk dictionary (I'm not going out to my office to look at mine) is on the side of the Hugo. It describes a novel simply as "a fictitious prose narrative of considerable length."