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Old 04-02-2016, 01:48 AM   #16
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Book of the New Sun is a combined genre doorstopper. Dune is science fiction, bigtime doorstopping too.
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Old 04-03-2016, 03:48 AM   #17
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Book of the New Sun is a combined genre doorstopper. Dune is science fiction, bigtime doorstopping too.
"Dune" is 611 pages, according to Amazon, so doesn't meet the OP's criteria by a considerable margin.
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Elizabeth Moon's The Deed of Paksenarrion qualifies in any format
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Elizabeth Moon's The Deed of Paksenarrion qualifies in any format

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It should be noted that these three books were first published separately - and NOT as a single volume.

Combined - as they are now - they do exceed 1,000 pages.


This combined trilogy of novels would be akin to Asimov's three Foundation novels combined into one book: The Foundation Trilogy.
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Old 04-11-2016, 11:46 AM   #20
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No one mentioned the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. Its time-shifting storyline fits *somewhat* in the fantasy genre, though it could also be considered historical fiction since it's set in actual European and American time lines. And, most of the books are significantly longer than 1000 pages.
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No one mentioned the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. Its time-shifting storyline fits *somewhat* in the fantasy genre, though it could also be considered historical fiction since it's set in actual European and American time lines. And, most of the books are significantly longer than 1000 pages.
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INFORMATION ONLY:

It should be noted that these three books were first published separately - and NOT as a single volume.

Combined - as they are now - they do exceed 1,000 pages.


This combined trilogy of novels would be akin to Asimov's three Foundation novels combined into one book: The Foundation Trilogy.
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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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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