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I'm not a fan of most of her works, but the Farseer Series was pretty good. In fact I read the "Rainwild" series based on my favorable experience with the "Farseer" series, in my opinion "Farseer" was much better. There is often a great deal of difference between the sequels and the initial novel of a serial. "Triplanetary" was the initial novel of the Lensmen series, but it is a much more polished novel than the rest of the pulp series. Luck; Ken |
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Originally a separate story it was much later reworked and combined with new material to tie it to First Lensman, itself a late addition to the series, for the first book edition of the set. The series originally started with Galactic Patrol. The extra polish came from the reworking, years after the other books. |
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So... "Triplanetary" not a good example. Since I can't recall an equal example, my
perception could be bogus. I guess we would call it a "prequel" now a days. I always thought it started the series. Luck; Ken |
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A better example of your idea would be Dune. The first volume is one of the great SF novels of the 20th, probably of all time. The second volume, a quick and dreadful cash-in. The rest is mostly fan service. There's a lot of exploration and expansion of the core milieau and the mythos but nothing that follows really hits on all cylinders like the first volume. There is also John Norman's GOR, where the first four started out as good Burroughs-ian pastiche and evolved into...porn? Or Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake series; the first five show a good progression of skill and good writing. Urban fantasy with a bit of detective mystery. Around volume 6 or so the mystery element pretty much got displaced and the sex became the core of the series. By now it's strictly fan service. If its still running. The second one is really very good. It does happen: a lot of series do outlive their reason for existing, which makes the few true series that don't all the more significant. It pays to know when to quit. Just not as well as fan service. Last edited by fjtorres; 02-27-2013 at 07:00 AM. |
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