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Originally Posted by JSWolf
The list is screwed then. A series is MULTIPLE books. So every Xanth book is a separate book and that makes the list OVER 100. Way to go. Don't they realize this? A series is NOT one book.
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I'm making my way through the Martin Beck police procedural series. The series is made up of ten books, written and published over ten years, but the authors have stated they viewed it as one very long novel. So, I think you can argue that a series containing essentially one story (like "Foundation") can be treated as a single entry in the poll. Maybe it's best to view this as a poll of the top one hundred SF/F
stories rather than
books.
Besides, breaking up the series into separate books would drastically shrink the breadth of the list if you wanted to stick to one hundred entries. I'm sure the real point of the poll was to draw people in, and I doubt you would get more participants if half the books were written by half a dozen old-school authors.