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In terms of format, I appreciate something like Raymond E. Feist's Riftwar Cycle, where you have a series of connected trilogies. You carry over the universe an
by TillE 11y ago
In terms of format, I appreciate something like Raymond E. Feist's Riftwar Cycle, where you have a series of connected trilogies. You carry over the universe and some of the characters, but the story is tied up at the end of each trilogy.
Or Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser short stories, which were the individual adventures of those two characters.
There's something obviously appealing about a universe (a "franchise" or "IP", if you must) which goes on and on, but that doesn't mean spending decades on a single story.
- panglott 11y agoFafhrd and the Mouser are an interesting case: There are seven (pretty short) volumes of stories, written over nearly forty years, with the major anthologies halfway through. Lots of those stories are just short vignettes, not more than a page or two long, that were nonetheless published individually. In the books, they seem like brief interludes, but they were originally written/published sometimes years apart from the longer stories. http://panglott.blogspot.com/2010/08/for-re-reading-of-nehwon.html http://panglott.blogspot.com/2010/08/for-re-reading-of-nehwo...
- iamlolz 11y agoMost fantasy readers tend to dismiss Feist's work, it's good to find someone else who appreciates it.