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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: Is use of literary person changing in indie SF?
Date: 24 Mar 2024 15:48:28 -0000
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Ted Nolan <tednolan> <tednolan> wrote:
>In particular, I have noticed books which are largely written in
>the first person, but which have cutaways to various third person
>viewpoints, perhaps omniscient, perhaps not.

Heinlein did that occasionally.  Also he wrote a book using first person,
but with the narrator changing every chapter.

>My conjecture is that without editorial guidelines (or call it interference
>if you like) newer authors feel more free to jump around.

Blame it on all those New Wave kids.
--scott

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