> -----Original Message----- > From: Jerry Friedman [mailto:jerry_friedman at yahoo.com] > Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 9:26 PM > To: Gaertk at aol.com; dragaera at dragaera.info > Subject: Re: Robert Jordan (was: Seen the other night....) > > > --- 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? > Isn't the number three a variable in the literary world? "After the fourth book in the trilogy, he can write a prequel" W Clip-clop..clip-clop....Clip-clop... (Amish drive-by shunning)