Arthur C. Clarke's "The Longest Science-fiction Story Ever Told": Not quite a story
Less than a page of a story-rejection letter from Morris K Mobius, an editor, to one Mr Jinx, the author.
"Longest" comes from recursive nature of the story - it keeps quoting itself forever.
Not worth reading.
Fact sheet.
The Longest Science-fiction Story Ever Told, short story, review
First published: Galaxy, October 1966 under the title "A Recursion in Metastories"
Rating: C
Collected in.
- "The Collected Stories of Arthur C Clarke".
- Arthur Clarke's "More Than One Universe".
- Arthur Clarke's "The Wind From the Sun".
- David Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer (Ed)'s "The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF".
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