Openings without Closure
(2020)(A book in the And other stories series)
A collection of stories by Lawrence M Schoen
A good story, novella, or novel ;has a beginning, a middle, and an end.
The beginning hooks you, with an engaging idea, or interesting and sympathetic characters, or a compelling setting, or some combination of these.
But that's not this book.
This book is an experiment: a collection of forty beginnings with neither middles nor ends. Forty openings where the author has started his tale, assembled the players, presented the crux or central theme or mcguffin, wound it all up but stopped short of pressing "go."
You will find science fiction and fantasy and horror here. Bizarre aliens, long bearded dwarfs, even demons. Humor and philosophy, hope and despair. In short, you will encounter the full range of the human condition presented through the lens of genre fiction.
But you won't find any closure.
You'll be left to ponder "what happens next?" and "how might it all end?" and even "is the author ever going to come back and finish writing this?"
As for that last question, the answer is a definite maybe. It all depends on which of these openings readers like best.
Genre: Science Fiction
The beginning hooks you, with an engaging idea, or interesting and sympathetic characters, or a compelling setting, or some combination of these.
But that's not this book.
This book is an experiment: a collection of forty beginnings with neither middles nor ends. Forty openings where the author has started his tale, assembled the players, presented the crux or central theme or mcguffin, wound it all up but stopped short of pressing "go."
You will find science fiction and fantasy and horror here. Bizarre aliens, long bearded dwarfs, even demons. Humor and philosophy, hope and despair. In short, you will encounter the full range of the human condition presented through the lens of genre fiction.
But you won't find any closure.
You'll be left to ponder "what happens next?" and "how might it all end?" and even "is the author ever going to come back and finish writing this?"
As for that last question, the answer is a definite maybe. It all depends on which of these openings readers like best.
Genre: Science Fiction
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