This was my reaction on FB:
Just finished reading War Of The Worlds and The Time Machine - both by HG Wells. Both are excellent. At 180 and 115 pages respectively, some of their contemporaries should take note... but their notes would be longer than his books.
Really.. does a good Sci Fi / Fantasy book HAVE to be thousands of pages long? Is nobody capable of excellence AND brevity? Maybe it is just what you have to do to make money as an author nowadays or something like that. You won't get published unless you hit at least the 300 page mark. That is a total guess, but maybe there is something there.
Both books are absolutely riveting and being a fraction of the size of many other works, are also very accessible.
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