--- Gaertk at aol.com wrote: > 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? _Lord of the Rings_ (Bilbo, Frodo, Sam, Merry, Pippin, Aragorn/Legolas/Gimli, and some frammed narrative by Gandalf, among others). I think also _The Chronicles of Narnia_ and _Gormenghast_, but I'm not sure. As for Hobb, the number of points of view doesn't seem to be crucial. At least, I remember only one in the _Assassin_ books. But I've been wrong before. > (And I believe "trilogy" is the wrong word for what we're > talking about, but I can't remember the right one.) Three-volume novel? Jerry Friedman __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools