From: mdhangton@gmail.com   
      
   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?   
      
   I mean this as a separate issue from where it is the sort of situation where   
   an editor will say "SF element is weak" on rejection slip, which is almost   
   equivalent to situation is a genre borderline story.  Which could be another   
   question, the marketing    
   of borderline stories.   
      
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