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John Robert Columbo, ed.:
WORDS IN SMALL: AN ANTHOLOGY
OF MINIATURE LITERARY COMPOSITIONS


Cacanadadada Press
3350 W. 21st. Ave.
Vancouver B.C., Canada, V6S 1G7


96 pp.

Make it small and do it in 50 words or less. The microtext for your delectation. Most of the sources are SF, but all bear the requisite hermetic compactness. A commentary follows each selection. This is truly the age of the sound byte--will it become the age of the lit byte? As technology causes attention spans to drop, such concision will be a useful skill in the grim determinisms of literary Darwinsm.--as


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This review originally appeared in TapRoot Reviews #5,
Copyright Burning Press 1994, 1996.

Contact the editor, luigi-bob drake, at Burning Press