Arguments for brevity, the possibility of wit
It’s not as though we have such precise notions of the length of a novel, which has been described as a narrative fiction of “a certain length.”

Nathan Hellner-Mestelman talks about his book Cosmic Wonder on CTV News Montreal with Mutsumi Takahashi. Watch here
Cosmic Wonder: Our Place in the Epic Story of the Universe
Nathan Hellner-Mestelman
April 2024
$24.95 | ISBN: 9781773901596
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Nathan Hellner-Mestelman is an avid writer and science communicator, aged 16. A contributor to Sky's Up and the former SkyNews magazine, he is a member of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada and does outreach at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory. His work has been featured in the Lonely Planet Anthology, Physics World Magazine, and Math Horizons, and his recent award-winning film, Universe Versus You, has been screened at film festivals internationally. He lives in Victoria, B.C. [Photo: Park Photo Studio by Matt Kim]
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It’s not as though we have such precise notions of the length of a novel, which has been described as a narrative fiction of “a certain length.”

"Written in a gracefully accessible prose and enlivened by a wry wit, unaffectedly modest but confident in tone, alert to resentments and undercurrents, on this subject which she knows so intimately and thoroughly, Leith’s book is a necessary read. Besides, I am indexed. And one feels one has arrived when one has been indexed." -- Kenneth Radu

It might be that this relationship between writer and publisher is what is most in danger in the digital revolution.

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