Re: Is use of literary person changing in indie SF?

On Sun, 24 Mar 2024 12:16:51 -0500, "Michael F. Stemper"
<michael.stemper@gmail.com> wrote:

On 24/03/2024 10.48, Scott Dorsey wrote:

Ted Nolan <tednolan> <tednolan> wrote:

In particular, I have noticed books which are largely written in
the first person, but which have cutaways to various third person
viewpoints, perhaps omniscient, perhaps not.

 
Heinlein did that occasionally.  Also he wrote a book using first person,
but with the narrator changing every chapter.

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And, since all four of them had the same "voice", I found myself regularly
flipping back to the first page of the chapter to figure out who was
speaking.

I got the large format illustrated version of "Number of the Beast"
which helpfully (and often necessarily) had the current POV character
identified at the top of each page.

--
Jerry Brown

A cat may look at a king
(but probably won't bother)