From: William Denton
On 30 December 2002, Todd Mason wrote:
: As one pretty tired of the oft-expressed anti-short-fiction
bias here at
: RA,
Oft-expressed? Surely not.
--Perhaps it just seems that way to a short-fiction booster
such as myself, after today's exchange (hardly unique)
between Mike and Patrick:
"The only other one on your list that I've read is _The Name
is Archer_; I liked it, but I generally prefer novels to
shorts.
************ Thanks, Patrick. You definitely enlightened me
on THE NAME IS ARCHER. I didn't know it wasn't a novel. I'll
probably let it slide."
--But I concur that a serious dip into much of what's
available in short form will probably turn most folks around.
Most of Ed Gorman's anthos, in fact all I've come across, are
also fine arguments for the shorter forms
(and not only those, when we consider the Jim Thompson novel
in the SECOND BLACK LIZARD ANTHOLOGY).
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