fix-up
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English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]- A repair; an act of mending.
- A novel created from (possibly unrelated, and possibly previously published) pieces of short fiction.
- 2016, Steffen Hantke, Monsters in the Machine: Science Fiction Film and the Militarization of America after World War II[1], Univ. Press of Mississippi, →ISBN, page 214:
- In The Martian Chronicles (1950), another fix-up novel, Ray Bradbury returns time and again to the trope of the abandoned city, as mass migrations from town to country and from one planet to another render cities obsolete.