fix-up
English
Etymology
From the verb phrase fix up.
Noun
- A repair; an act of mending.
- A novel created from (possibly unrelated, and possibly previously published) pieces of short fiction.
- 2016, Steffen Hantke, Monsters in the Machine: Science Fiction Film and the Militarization of America after World War II, Univ. Press of Mississippi (→ISBN), page 214:
- In The Martian Chronicles (1950), another fix-up novel, Ray Bradbury returns time and again to the trope of the abandoned city, as mass migrations from town to country and from one planet to another render cities obsolete.
- 2016, Steffen Hantke, Monsters in the Machine: Science Fiction Film and the Militarization of America after World War II, Univ. Press of Mississippi (→ISBN), page 214: