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

On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 13:13:41 -0500, "Michael F. Stemper"
<michael.stemper@gmail.com> wrote:

On 25/03/2024 02.15, Jerry Brown wrote:

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.

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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.

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I just pulled my MMPB off the shelf, and saw that it does this on the
odd-numbered pages. Apparently, I was looking back to find out the title
of the chapter, although I can't think of why.

IIRC, I just gave up on it. Either that, or (for some reason) I had no
trouble knowing who it was.

Or, of course, I just didn't notice the switches between narrators.
This was not my favorite book. I liked the alternate version better.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"