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Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr3.iad1.usenetexpress.com!69.80.99.23.MISMATCH!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 07:15:57 +0000 From: Jerry Brown <jerry@jwbrown.co.uk.invalid> Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Is use of literary person changing in indie SF? Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 07:15:56 +0000 Reply-To: jerry@jwbrown.co.uk.invalid Message-ID: <au820j9ba7rv3u7hvvacfmehlor2me5j79@jwbrown.co.uk> References: <l69m1tFt838U1@mid.individual.net> <utpi0c$5f2$1@panix2.panix.com> <utpn64$ftng$1@dont-email.me> User-Agent: ForteAgent/7.00.32.1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 25 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-Pm7OlGP0zfXQkmmxsIuUsF/YglybW38Uf2XYD+JHciqBMWfquAhBU8x3gHonDb4mpDV3w8blUWVtPj6!JIWaVhLIi0PERMKmVedEokK+TGI22F0OCmLvxlXbS7rPP2UQ8FZl64OpRB9pvLhY28hIiElJyjXC!wBc= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2336 On Sun, 24 Mar 2024 12:16:51 -0500, "Michael F. Stemper" <michael.stemper@gmail.com> wrote: >On 24/03/2024 10.48, Scott Dorsey wrote: >> 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. > >And, since all four of them had the same "voice", I found myself regularly >flipping back to the first page of the chapter to figure out who was >speaking. I got the large format illustrated version of "Number of the Beast" which helpfully (and often necessarily) had the current POV character identified at the top of each page. -- Jerry Brown A cat may look at a king (but probably won't bother)