Fix-up

A fix-up is a novel created from previously published short stories, edited together and with necessary new material added to form a coherent narrative. The term was apparently coined by A. E. Van Vogt but the practice had previously existed.

It is distinguished from works published in serial format, which are written as a continuous narrative, either in advance of publication or as publication goes on.

Examples:

• A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
• Pilgrimage: The Book of the People (1961) by Zenna Henderson
• Alpha Centauri or Die! (1963) by Leigh Brackett
• Davy (1964) by Edgar Pangborn
• The Universe Against Her (1964) by James H. Schmitz
• The Ship Who Sang (1969) by Anne McCaffrey
• 334 (1972) by Thomas M. Disch
• To Ride Pegasus (197) by Anne McCaffrey
• The Forever War (1974) by Joe Haldeman
• Born to Exile (1978) by Phyllis Eisenstein
• Icehenge (1984) by Kim Stanley Robinson
• The Book of the River (1984) by Ian Watson
• The Ragged World (1991) by Judith Moffett
• Alien Influences (1994) by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

See also "story suite", Ursula K. Le Guin's term for inter-related short stories that are not retrofitted into a novel, but left as short stories.