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'''Epistolary fiction''' is a story or novel told in the form of a series of letters; or, more broadly, diary entries or other documents. | '''Epistolary fiction''' is a story or novel told in the form of a series of letters; or, more broadly, diary entries or other documents. | ||
SF examples include: | |||
* The Beatrice Letters by Lemony Snicket | * The Beatrice Letters by Lemony Snicket | ||
* Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897) includes a wide variety of correspondence | * Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897) includes a wide variety of correspondence | ||
Revision as of 17:07, 13 March 2007
Epistolary fiction is a story or novel told in the form of a series of letters; or, more broadly, diary entries or other documents.
SF examples include:
- The Beatrice Letters by Lemony Snicket
- Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897) includes a wide variety of correspondence
- Emma Bull and Steven Brust's Freedom and Necessity (1997) is a recent example of letters, diary entries, and some live action
- Caroline Stevermer and Patricia Wrede collaborated on Sorcery and Cecelia or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot: Being the Correspondence of Two Young Ladies of Quality Regarding Various Magical Scandals in London and the Country (1988), depicting an alternate Regency England; its sequel The Grand Tour: Being a Revelation of Matters of High Confidentiality and Greatest Importance, Including Extracts from the Intimate Diary of a Noblewoman and the Sworn Testimony of a Lady of Quality (2004), turns from letters to diary extracts and testimony.
- The Fox Woman by Kij Johnson is a series of diary entries
- The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (2005) is a partial epistolary novel