> So it seems to me that my other favorite SF/F novelists (Wolfe, John M > Ford, Willis, Swanwick, Beagle, Tolkien, Zelazny) have significant short > story oeuvres. I thought John Crowley (H. Bloom: "only Philip Roth > consistently writes on Crowley's level") was an exception, perhaps because > _Novelties_ left no impression on me, but he's coming out with his third > collection of shorter works this year (and Ford and Wolfe have collections > on the way soon). So why is it that SKZB has so few short works? SKZB has stated (though hang me if I can recall where, exactly) that he prefers writing novels to short stories because he has more space to develop characters, plot, little bits he likes tossing in to fluster readers (okay, that last bit's my own addition:). He writes a mean short story, but damn fine books. Just have to wait for him to finish them....:) Chris (Waiting by the bookstore's phone #....) "He is a lover of his country who rebukes and does not excuse its sins." - Frederick Douglass