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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
He had more books planned for the series....
Plus I find the idea of splitting a 7,8,9-book series into a new 20-book series a rather repulsive money-grab.
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But isn't that the point? He's adding those books, 500K new words in total. And since they're being sold as non-agency, each individual book will be cheaper than your typical agency book (and eligible for discount codes and/or volume discounts, if your e-book store of choice does that). Hard to fault that, IMO.
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reading the new prequels has convinced me that either he or I am incapable of rekindling the magic I felt in these books at the time of their original publication. But perhaps new readers will gobble it up?
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I haven't finished the first prequel novel yet, but I've read the first couple of chapters and it was rekindling the magic for me. Or perhaps it wasn't, and instead was invoking the magic of the post-apocalyptic setting that I find so intriguing (One of my favourite movies is Mad Max 2/The Road Warrior, and one of my favourite TV shows is Jericho, to give you an idea).
The original series started off dystopian, but the first prequel novel is instead post-apocalyptic, and that may have affected your response to it.