Originally Posted by taosaur
Trilogies from their foundation in the first modern medieval MacGuffin quest, however, have often been just single books broken up by publishers for marketability. And Asimov comes in from the other direction, serial efforts bound, perhaps a bit arbitrarily, into longer formats. That a doorstop edition exists is probably adequate, without diving into what edition, timing, or milieu (perhaps one should only read certain lengthy works in the Caribbean, at least three days distant from a full or new moon) is definitive.
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