A fixup is a novel created from short stories which may or may not have been initially related. The stories are edited for consistency, and sometimes new connecting material is written for the new novel. A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... This article is in need of attention. ...

Fixups were most common in the 1950s, when science fiction and fantasy were making the transition from being published mostly in pulp magazines, to being published mostly in book form. Many authors went through old stories, creating new manuscripts and selling them to book publishers. Millennia: 1st millennium - 2nd millennium - 3rd millennium Events and trends Technology United States tests the first fusion bomb. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... In literature, fantasy is a form of speculative fiction in which physical laws differ from our own through a reason for which no scientific explanation is offered, or which take place a world wholly different from our own. ... Pulp magazines, often called simply the pulps, were inexpensive text fiction magazines widely published in the 1920s through the 1950s. ...

The term was coined by A. E. van Vogt, who published several fixups of his own, including The Voyage of the Space Beagle. Alfred Elton van Vogt (April 26, 1912 - January 26, 2000) was a Canadian-born science fiction author. ... The Voyage of the Space Beagle (1951) is a classic novel of science fiction by A. E. van Vogt in the space opera mode. ...

Other fixups include:

• I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
• Operation Chaos by Poul Anderson
• City by Clifford D. Simak
• Half Past Human by T. J. Bass