Thread: Would you try episodic fiction if it had a clear end point?
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Old 05-04-2017, 09:11 PM   #36
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Originally Posted by fjtorres View Post
Roger Zelazny did that with his first AMBER series.
(He wasn't the only one. The core of LENSMEN and LORD OF THE RINGS were also conceived as single stories. Lensmen was not only broken into three volumes--and extended with prequels and sequels--but also the first three were serialized for magazine publication. A necessity for the times.)
Yeah, known that little tidbit for The Lord of the Rings for years now. Hell, Tolkien didn't even like the title for The Return of the King (because it "told you what happened.") The price of paper would have made it unaffordable otherwise. Still, I think that did well for it, making it into a trilogy. Now I have the single volume on my phone.
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