![]() Howard’s Conan books, and Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser series, appear to the casual eye to be long series of novels, albeit comparatively short novels.įantasy’s sister genre, Science Fiction, is often said to be built on the short form. Even if we go farther back in time, Robert E. ![]() It’s a fairly long novel which divides naturally into six books, but which was presented in three volumes due to the exigencies of the publishing business.) And certainly Tolkien’s first popular imitators, such as Terry Brooks ( The Sword of Shannara and sequels), published long series of longish books. After all, The Lord of the Rings is a trilogy, isn’t it? (Actually, it’s not. This is often blamed (or credited) to the influence of J.R.R. New entries, which have garnered considerable critical praise as well as sales, include James Stoddard’s House books, Steven Erikson’s new series beginning with Gardens of the Moon, and Elizabeth Haydon’s new series beginning with Rhapsody. Other popular series of recent years include David Eddings’ Belgariad, Robin Hobb’s Assassin, and Raymond Feist’s Magician. Probably the best selling current fantasy series is Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time, which now extends to 9 books, with the books close to 1000 pages each. A common acronym is FFT, for “Fat Fantasy Trilogy”. ![]() ![]() It has become something of a cliche these days to note that popular fantasy seems to be concentrated in novels, and indeed in very large novels, or series of novels. By Rich Horton from Black Gate 2, copyright © 2001 by New Epoch Press. ![]()
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