Talk:Fix-up

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message: Placing Enders' Game on this list reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of what a fix-up novel is. There must be at least two different stories involved. Enders Game is an expansion of one short story. Removed it from the list.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by DanQuigley (talk • contribs) 14:34, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed Enders Game 

message: :I, Robot[4] (1951) by Isaac Asimov
:The Green Hills of Earth (1951) by Robert Heinlein
I don't see the reference to a Budrys column supporting I, Robot as a novel rather than a collection of related stories. The Green Hills of Earth is clearly a collection of unrelated stories.  How many more non-novels are there in the long list?  It is a useful and widely-used phrase, but examples in SF could be confined to those that critics have verifiably explained were formerly multiple short stories. --Cedderstk
:I, Robot is a novel, if barely; Asimov wrote interstitial material connecting the stories (such as mention of a rumor that Susan Calvin and Stephen Byerley were lovers) that isn't present in other Robot collections like The Complete Robot. Budrys discusses I, Robot a paragraph after talking about "the 'novels' pasted together from series short stories". It clearly isn't the other examples Budrys discusses, non-SF writers and old SF. Ylee (talk) 01:23, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  How to verify? 

message: I'm not sure if the terminology carries over, as I'm not in the industry, but it's certainly Also A Thing for movies to weave a common thread through an anthology of stories that were not necessarily intended to be related or even in the same universe. The main one that comes to mind is Heavy Metal, which IIRC was cobbled together from stories that appeared in the magazine, but with a common thread woven through them (the Loc-Nar orb). Maybe this is worth a mention? Right now the page explicitly says fix-ups are novels, so I don't want to presume and just add movies, or any other medium, but I still wanted to get this on the radar. Felice Enellen (talk) 23:55, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: 1) The term was specifically coined for novels. 2) I have never heard of it actually being used for films. 3) The example you give wouldn't be a fix-up, it is simply adapting multiple sources into a single movie.  A true "fix-up" movie would take existing footage from short films and edit them into one longer film. If you are changing basic medium (say from a text story to a comic or a comic to a film), that's just adaptation no matter how many individual sources are woven into the result.--Khajidha (talk) 14:40, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Movies can be fix-ups as well