In “Relief,” the young narrator flies to other planets in Jex’s spaceship. In “Just,” the narrator finds Jex has arrived on her moon and gotten caught in a murder investigation.
Quote Investigator looked into the origin of that adage, which has been attributed to many authors in recent years. It found that:
- Credit most commonly goes to John Gardner, author of The Art of Fiction.
- He never wrote that, though he wrote an exercise in starting a novel in omniscient voice that could be stretched and misconstrued into that statement.
- Gardner was being credited with making that pronouncement as early as 1986, four years after his death.
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