In a message dated 2/19/2004 7:16:18 PM Eastern Standard Time, Joshua Kronengold <mneme at io.com> writes: > Gaertk at aol.com writes: >> trouble finding a publisher for his Song of Ice and Fire, >> and we'd probably miss out completely on Erikson and Hobb >> (though she could continue writing as Lindholm and not >> make any money). > > Eh -- I think Hobb's just writing traditional SF/Fantasy > trilogy, with recognizable beginnings and endings, and > doing just fine with it. > > See Clayton's body of work, or numerous trilogies. I haven't read Clayton, and I'm having trouble finding examples of fantasy trilogies outside of D&D tie-ins. Can you cite a fantasy series with at least 6 POVs that was published before 1990? (And I believe "trilogy" is the wrong word for what we're talking about, but I can't remember the right one.) --KG