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story-chronology-management
The author describes a method for tracking the story's timeline using an arbitrary calendar system to maintain internal consistency of events.
1 chapter across 1 book
A Fire Upon the Deep (2002)Vernor Vinge
Chapter 7
This chapter serves as an extensive guide to the annotation conventions used by Vernor Vinge in the 2002 edition of "A Fire Upon the Deep." It details the formatting symbols, tagging system, and editorial notes that appear throughout the text, explaining their purpose and evolution during the manuscript's development. The chapter also provides insight into the author's process of managing story chronology, editorial communication, and textual revisions.