Publication:BRTHKFMNCE1982

Email from Mike Resnick states this is a novel, not a collection.

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Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 23:04:02 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Resnick  Subject: Re: Birthright question In-reply-to: <46944D45.40900@satx.rr.com> To: Dave Sorgen  Reply-to: mike-resnick@abooks.com Message-id: <3058.12.74.40.108.1184126642.squirrel@www.abooks.com> Original-recipient: rfc822;dsorgen@satx.rr.com > Mike - > Didn't think this really fit the listserv. > > In my spare time I provide material (edit, add) for the online Internet > Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB). The ISFDB is a repository for > information on books, short stories, magazines, reviews and all things > literary related to SF. > > I was preparing to make some entries in ISFDB for Birthright and > couldn't decide whether to tag it as a collection of short stories or a > novel with loosely connected chapters. My inclination is toward the > latter, but I thought I'd go to the source for a good answer. My > reasoning is that the chapters aren't published elsewhere separately as > short stories; thus: novel. > > So, which is it? > > Politely (I hope), > Dave Sorgen Yeah, it's a novel. Never tried to market any of the stories separately. I let Marty Greenberg use one a couple of years after the book came out, and realized it was a mistake, that these chapters weren't really structured as true short stories. Mike

--Dsorgen 11:18, 21 Jul 2007 (CDT)