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Originally Posted by JSWolf
But the Mission Earth series was never seen as one book.
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Perhaps so, but, as specified, "novel", not "book".
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It's always seen as 10 very bad, very boring books.
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You do not have my disagreement on your subjective opinion, though I must declare that any agreement is not based on reading
all 10 of the self-named "dekalogy" (in fact, it was barely a dent into the first that turned me off).
However, it seems that some may consider it a ten-volume novel, and some a ten-novel series. Criteria for "novel" vary. The point is though, that "book" and "novel" are different, and it would seem that this series was written as one, long work, and delivered as one, long manuscript to the publisher, anticipated to be broken up into a number of books (eventually 10). More information can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Earth_(novel)
Particularly reference the third item ("the rest of the story") under the References section, which probably adds significant weight to its conception as a multi-volume novel.
Cheers,
Marc