From: goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu

In article ,
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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