Because it had an apocalyptic feel similar to an earlier novella of mine called 'The Mist,' I headed each chapter in the same old-fashioned, rococo way.
It is a heavily-rewritten and expanded version of an earlier novella called Shadow Twin.
It is an adaptation of Rajarshi, an earlier novella of his.
In an earlier novella, published in 1987, one of Jane Smiley's characters talks of being initiated into "the age of grief."
In writing this novel I took the frame of outer solar system ideas from an earlier novella, Iceborn, coauthored with Paul Carter in the 1980s.
He now regards these early novellas as failed experiments in the process of discovering himself as a writer.
It is a complete rewrite of his earlier novella, Against the Fall of Night.
Blood and Guts had reprinted an earlier novella by Mr. Crews, so this became the second book of his that it had published.
The book is a reworking of one of his earlier novellas, "With Folded Hands."
New Spring (January 2004, novel, an expanded work superseding the earlier novella)