Novum: why it is the best and ONLY title for my new book series
I consider it a coup d'état that I was able to snag the title "Novum" for my new science fiction book (and eventual series) before any other SF author. Why? From the Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction:
novum (n.) [Latin for "new"] the primary element in a work of science fiction by which the work is shown to exist in a different world than that of the reader. "...the term refers to those concrete innovations in lived history that awaken human collective consciousness out of a static present to awareness that history can be changed."
That describes my story so perfectly that I was actually panicked that someone else would publish something with that title before me, even though the terms has been used in science fiction circles since the 70’s. Was I lucky or what?
novum (n.) [Latin for "new"] the primary element in a work of science fiction by which the work is shown to exist in a different world than that of the reader. "...the term refers to those concrete innovations in lived history that awaken human collective consciousness out of a static present to awareness that history can be changed."
That describes my story so perfectly that I was actually panicked that someone else would publish something with that title before me, even though the terms has been used in science fiction circles since the 70’s. Was I lucky or what?
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