Anthony Boucher (Ed) by The Best From Fantasy & Science Fiction 05

Author:The Best From Fantasy & Science Fiction 05 [Fantasy, The Best From & 05, Science Fiction]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-08-24T13:18:48+00:00

Come up, Henry, we have to live. Till we are all called in, or our children, or our children's children. Till there is nowhere else to go.

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FOUR VIGNETTES

This business of vignettes is all Fredric Brown's fault. Science-fantasy stories have always tended to be longer than they need to be (partly because most s.f. magazines pay by the word); and authors usually think they've achieved a miracle of compression if they pull a story down to 2500 words. But Mr. Brown has been cheerfully demonstrating—in F&SF, in Galaxy, in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, and in his delightful collection angels and spaceships (Dutton, 1954)—that one can tell a pointed, witty, complete story in under 500 words, or exactly one page of our magazine format. Readers have been captivated by this discovery, and authors challenged; for "vinnies" (as Brown always calls them) are intensely tricky technically, yet deeply rewarding to the craftsman when they come off. So other F&.SF authors have been trying them (and of course I could not resist the temptation to move in on the act myself), with unexpected results: you'll find James Blish, normally a most sober and complex writer, indulging in broad parody of the current Psionic Pschool, and Isaac Asimov proving himself quite as at home in a miniature as in the galactic saga of the Foundation (which runs to 245,000 words).

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