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Views Culture The sci-fi column Short but perfectly formed In George Saunders’s Vigil, a ghost visits a dying oil tycoon, while terraforming efforts on Mars are about to bear fruit in The Rainseekers by Matthew Kressel. Emily Wilson explores two very different short novels In Vigil, a dying oil magnate is visited by ghosts IN GENERAL, I am not a fan of novellas (or short novels). Just as I am sinking into them, they finish. However, while interesting people keep writing interesting-sounding works like these, I feel obliged to keep reading them, and this week I will be featuring not one, but two of these relatively slender tomes. …
摘自《新科学家》(New Scientist)第3582期 · 2026年2月14日,Emily Wilson。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。