SF book covers are always saying things like "by the bestselling novel of the Licanius Trilogy"
@mcc A couple decades ago, I noticed at my local Borders that every single book on the “new fiction” table had “a novel” somewhere on the cover. It’s become a game, finding new fiction from a mainstream publisher of *any* genre that doesn’t have some such annotation.
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