2/ Me: carefully notes that I'm talking about SF genre Responses: 100% non SF genre Sigh
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Okay, but page count =/= wordcount anyway. Font and spacing in the old pocket paperbacks weren't the same as the doorstoppers that people are publishing today. a 200-250 page pocket paperback was between 50k and 65k words generally.
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Protector by Larry Niven. Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula LeGuin. Some other of the greats aren't hugely bigger at about 300 pages - Dragonflight, Starship Troopers, Foundation. I do love me some Time Enough For Love, but it was a bit self indulgent.
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300 != 200
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Of Mice and Men is under 200 according to Wikipedia. Things Fall Apart is 209. The death of Ivan Illyich a mere 119. I had a sudden thought that Lolita is short but it's 330. Call of the Wild is 232, how small are we allowed to make the font in this new vehicle?
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Silas Marner is 208.
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The Door Into Summer (159), and The Puppet Masters (175) by Heinlein; The Time Machine (141), by H.G. Wells, The Stainless Steel Rat (160) by Harry Harrison. Those are the examples I found in a quick survey of my shelf.
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Lots of classical pulp is that short and nevertheless excellent - Louis L'Amour, Ian Fleming, and others. Too often, modern practice is to write long bloviating epics that would benefit greatly by ruthless editing of a third or more of the material.
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Starship Troopers immediately came to mind. Fahrenheit 451? Asimov’s Foundation isn’t much over the limit.
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