12-06-2016, 01:23 PM
Hm. That helps a bit - but I'm not sure it's the best approach to have a short story with so many footnotes or a technical glossary that is 20% of the entire combined length.
Hard SF stories do sometimes come with glossaries and technical appendices and such. But I've only every seen them in full length novels - maybe a novella (but that's rare).
I'd suggest that it would still work better to try to get work in as many definitions and such into the story itself - particularly if you're aiming for this to be published in something like Analog.
My 2c worth,
Todd
Hard SF stories do sometimes come with glossaries and technical appendices and such. But I've only every seen them in full length novels - maybe a novella (but that's rare).
I'd suggest that it would still work better to try to get work in as many definitions and such into the story itself - particularly if you're aiming for this to be published in something like Analog.
My 2c worth,
Todd