6/26/2023 0 Comments Seveneves![]() ![]() If this had been published fifteen (maybe even ten) years ago, it would be at least two books. The publishers wouldn’t have it, and the editors would rise up and smack down any author who thought they could get away with such hubris. The printing and binding machines would groan and creak. Time was, see, you just couldn’t publish a nearly 900-page hardcover book like this. It breaks all the rules and conventions of the novel form, and that’s not because it’s poorly written-it’s because the book is not trying to follow those conventions. But in this case, that label is a lie-or at the very least, a simplification. I know that it has that stupid “A Novel” subtitle that dangles off the end of a book’s cover like an appendix because some publishers worry that readers are too dumb or lazy to look at a book’s description to figure out if it’s fiction or non-fiction. ![]()
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