From: goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu   
      
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   William Vetter   wrote:   
   >Do you think it is possible to market or sell or entice somebody to read   
   >a story (for the sake of the question, of various lengths) if the SF   
   >element doesn't become obvious until late in the story, perhaps the   
   >final one-fifth of the word count?   
      
   In one of the Hugo-nominated stories this year ("Wakulla Springs")   
   the fantasy element doesn't become obvious until the last paragraph.   
   (And even there it's arguably a bit tacked on.) So I'd say yes.   
      
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