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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ratenef" data-source="post: 1341908" data-attributes="member: 6893">Gang,If our concern is that there are no good stand alone fantasy novels, then we need to define stand alone.To me ANY book that is 1) part of a series, 2) occurs in the same author's world, and/or 3) continues the adventures of the characters regardless of if it was written as a) short stories and then strung together, b) written as a single book and then added to OR c) Jordanized (written with the intent of dying before it was finished), then it is disqualified as a stand alone fantasy novel.A stand alone fantasy novel that fits this bill (that I can quickly recollect) is Roger Zelazny's Jack of Shadows (good book by the way).Now is the reason that there are no stand alone books of any quality:1) demand is such that stand alone's will not sell2) supply of series is forced upon us3) the genre is such that a good idea is frequently beaten to death4) otherI think that is what we need to discuss.Personally, I think it is because of 1 and 2 (noted above). We the readers, by majority, desire/buy books that are serial in nature (See how David Eddings and Anne McCaffery have beaten their series to death....does anyone care about the doings of Belgaraths cousins/nephews/great uncle or one more go at the Dragon series by Anne!!). And the genre is such that unless you kill the character, or yourself die, you can just keep going and going and going (a al Jordan or Salvatore)Thanks,</blockquote>

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