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In lugnet.castle, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> Certainly you can have multiple foci but I would leave that to very
> experienced writers to pull off successfully.
Ursula Le Guin has identified the "multiple foci" perspective as the
hardest to execute effectively. I'm not sure I agree 100%, but it's
definitely tricky to write character sufficiently distinct from one another
to allow the reader to believe that each character is real. Tolstoy is
probably one of the masters of this form, but honestly not a lot of people
read him anymore. For matters of sci fi (or SF, or SciFi, or
scientifiction, or science fiction), one multi-perspective author who
springs to mind is Stephen R. Donaldson. His writing is, let's say,
somewhat ponderous, but his Gap cycle of six or seven years ago tells a
large story from a number of different viewpoints.
Dave!
> I'm a latecomer so I don't know where the FUT belongs but I would tend to
> think it's out of .general at this point ??
FUT ot.geek, since sci fi is geeky, right?
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