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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
That question occurred to me, too.
But I was specifically thinking of series that had begun as stand alone books, and expanded into series when the publisher or the author saw an opportunity. In some cases, the concept could stretch to accommodate a series. In others, things are more problematic.
Most series books these days are planed to be series from the outset, though you can argue some have run out of gas and stalled.
What series can you think of that was planned to be a stand alone book, became a series, and is better for it?
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Dennis
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I thought about these kind of series also and therefore said "nearly all of them". Aliens is a film example or maybe that is just of an example when the second part was the best part. Pratchett and the Discworld books is an example were the whole series is much better than the first two books which was kind of standalone.
I think that Charles Stross tried to start a lot of series purposefully but if one book had not sold well it would not have been a series so I do not know if it fits. But the series starting with "The Atrocity Archive" I think is better than only the first book.