81 pages but divided into six numbered chapters:
No Return (pp. 207-217)
Belgotai of Syrtis (pp. 218-236)
Trapped in the Time-Stream (pp. 236-246)
End of Empire (pp. 246-262)
Attack of the Anvardi (pp. 263-271)
Flight Without End (pp. 272-288)
Maybe pulp magazines made novellas seem more substantial by dividing them into chapters with titles? "Flight to Forever" presents many of the standard ingredients:
dramatic opening and closing chapter titles;
a Martian place name;
the time-stream;
in fact, a dramatic problem for some travelers in the time-stream;
the end of an empire;
an alien attack.
What more do we want?
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
As Anderson said many times, the first duty of a fiction writer is to entertain his readers. If he fails to do that they will stop buying his stories. Altho he improved as a writer as time passed, Anderson did write an entertaining story in "Flight."
Anderson was far more and better than just a "hack," of course. He could write entertaining stories which also examined serious ideas.
Ad astra! Sean
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