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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wofano Wotanto" data-source="post: 9672349" data-attributes="member: 7044704">I don't know about <40, but maybe <30 when a maturing internet led to much more awareness of THAT SCENE and other problematic material.  The books' popularity stemmed partly from years of new releases from 1977-1983 - and dropped off rapidly as that ended, seemingly forever.  Early Covenant's popularity is one of those "you really had to be there" things.  Can't imagine it being that big in 2025, if it could even get published at all.  Even then, remember the final four books came out between 2004 and 2013.  Despite less hype, far less influence and the fact than many people knew about the failings of the earlier two trilogies they weren't utter flops either.  Certainly drove many new folks to read the rest of the series to see if they were really as good/bad as claimed.</blockquote>