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And perhaps most famously of all, Asimov's "Foundation" trilogy.
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Also relevant to the topic at hand was this podcast I was listening to the other day from SFF Audio: http://www.sffaudio.com/?cat=52
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For books, there's usually one ending, but Mira Grant for example released the alternate ending to her novel Feed on a site.
But you should have seen all the pirated DVDs when the Highlander: End Game came out. Each one had a different ending, and it was fun reading about all the variants. |
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To be specific, Asimov originally wrote four short stories for magazines. These four stories, together with a prequel, were then published as "Foundation". There were then four more magazine stories published, which were issued in pairs as "Foundation and Empire" and "Second Foundation" respectively.
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If you notice, the trilogy has "eight chapters" spread across the first three books. These chapters are the stories themselves, each story focusing on a specific era/conflict.
For me, it was immediately evident even without knowing it was originally a fixup novel. Last edited by charlesatan; 07-11-2012 at 01:30 AM. |
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Not surprising, given the way it came together. One other major fix-up novel that was a massive hit is "Gone with the Wind". Most people think it's one gigantic novel when it's actually an anthology of short stories that tell a series of related tales about the south during the civil war grouped together under a common timeline.
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