Re: (ReacTor) Five Superb SFF Fix-Up Novels

In article <v2k594$12ii5$1@dont-email.me>,
Default User <defaultuserbr@yahoo.com> wrote:

James Nicoll wrote:
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Five Superb SFF Fix-Up Novels
 
A celebration of the SFFnal tradition of transforming short works
into more commercially viable novels.

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One I read quite some time ago was Starfinder by Robert F Young that
was a fixup of stories that ran in F&SF.
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The stories were:
Jonathan and the Space Whale
Star Eel, The
Haute Bourgeoisie
Mindanao Deep, The
As a Man Has a Whale a Love Story
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It featured some large living creatures that could travel through space
and time. Humans would get inside and destroy the higher brain
function, to leave a controllable ship. Jonathon is on the job when a
whale communicates with him and convinces him that they should instead
run off together.
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The novel was somewhat different, but I don't recall the specifics.
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Brian
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Hmm.  I remember that one: The space whale had a rare secondary brain
that escaped the original cull.  I thought it was an "Orbit" story though..
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