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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 1340160" data-attributes="member: 151">My list was, by no means, meant to be exhaustive. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I specifically avoided referencing things like Andre Norton, Moorcock, Asimov, Howard, Leiber and others for the specific reason that either some weren't purely fantasy (as Asimov) and that their contributing works (seminal as they are) were published in magazine form as short stories first. Take Norton's Witch World series...they are almost serial like in nature, bound by a thematic premise and world location, but only some stories connect with others directly.  Collectively, they can make a pseudo-novel...but they really aren't.  They are an arc of stories with an overlying theme and premise.  They were published semi-regularly in a magazine, back when the market was completely different.  Remember, newstands used to be the way most folks got lots of their reading material, and comics and magazines used to have much bigger distributions.  Magazine sales have declined steadily for decades, even as more specialty magazines have appeared.  Back in the 30s through the 60s, you built your world and setting piece by piece, revealing a little more each time through a short story.  It doesn't work that way any more.  The distribution system is different, and so is the publishing culture. Others, like Vance and Herbert, weren't writing series per se...they wrote a book.  Afterwards, they might write another in the same setting...but it wasn't a trilogy or pentology or Jordanology.  It was a book, and then a sequel.  They weren't conceived at the same time, and the sequel, in some cases, wasn't even considered when the first novel was written.</blockquote>

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