Today -- another day beyond the terminus of the past, and deceitfully enmeshed in the future --, today was a day of life.

Life included:

-- Jim Kelly and Bob Silverberg in panel discussing the structural differences between the short story, the novella and the novel (with a brief artificially injected intermission on the novelette).

Bob > Poe: "One thing happens in the short story, all revolves around this one thing." Again, character transformation and conceptual revelation peak simultaneously in the sf short story.

Kelly: The sf short story provides room only for the Three Characters, two in relationship + a Third who alters the status quo of said relationship. The Third could be a force, a dynamic.

In the novella, multiple plots exist and engender one another, creating a succession not only of events and character changes but an amplification of change and possible theme from the characters to the Background universe.

SF writers bear Singular burdens: world-building for short stories, resisting exposition.

Pohl's DAY MILLION is a short story novel.

-- Marina Sirtis: Years of playing an empath don't seem to have instilled much empathy.