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What does Delany mean when he says “everything in a science-fiction novel should be mentioned at least twice”?

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passingby asked:


Full quote is “Everything in a science-fiction novel should be mentioned at least twice (in at least two different contexts).” from Triton.

Louise
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One Response to “What does Delany mean when he says “everything in a science-fiction novel should be mentioned at least twice”?”

  1. xxmachina says:
    January 6, 2009 at 11:56 pm

    The world which kind of works out to the wall in scifi special technology to this being his words or it could just be good rule against authors using throw away technology that only gets used once is reference to resolve plot point in scifi.