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Originally Posted by DuskyRose
Couldn't you just take the first in a series as a stand-alone if you wanted to? After all, I don't think any book can include the whole story of a person, planet or universe anyway. There can certainly be a lot of story-arc in a universe that can be hinted at in a first book that won't make the first story any less complete than a stand-alone.
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Yes. I do that a lot. But even
that kind of series is pretty rare nowadays. Most of them leave you in the lurch at the end of each book. And if I like HOW an author wrote (but maybe not so much WHAT they wrote), I may have to wait 15 years until I get to try something different from them (if ever).
And why would anyone even
try to
"include the whole story of a person, planet or universe" in the first place? A project like that would involve more documentation than story-telling. No one or no-where is
that interesting.
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Basically, it's already covered for me under the term 'Fiction'. I've never needed another term to encompass it all.
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So you think the "Mystery" label is unnecessary? The labels aren't really that important, they just help people find the type of stuff they enjoy reading more easily. And to discuss those things more easily. I mean if someone asks me what kind of books I like to read, I assume they're looking for something a bit more specific than "fiction."
