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Originally Posted by sufue
(As only an occasional sci-fi reader, much more of a mystery reader, where series can be really long, I sometimes wonder why do so many sci-fi book series come in threes? Granted there are also some long sci-fi and fantasy series, but a lot of threes...)
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Originally Posted by issybird
I’m not at all an SF reader, but I’ll take a stab at this.
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But what do I know? I mean that seriously. Not my genre.
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issybird's reasoning could be totally correct, I have no idea. My thoughts have always been somewhat different though but I can't say why I have thought this so could be completely wrong.
I was under the impression that "trilogies" or extended series were what publishers wanted from sci-fi and fantasy authors after the success of The Lord of the Rings being published that way. It just became the "thing" that sci-fi/fantasy does and an expectation much the way that they are expected to be longer. A 200-300 page mystery or romance. Not a problem. A 200-300 page fantasy? "Why is it so short?"