Mark A Mandel writes: >#On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 Gaertk at aol.com wrote: >#> 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? >The Biography of Manuel, comprising almost all the fantasy works of >James Branch Cabell [1879-1958] >http://www.violetbooks.com/cabell.html *laugh*. Oh, yes. Though...are you sure they aren't the same book, written over and over again? (mostly joke, though IMEX, Cabell's work, while really good, has a similar enough quality that it can wear badly when taken in a large enough dose at once). I am, by the way, mystified by the newly minted idea that long-written or complex fantasy series began with Jordan [admitedly, he exceeds a lot of his predicessors in length, but even there, on the SF side of the fence, there's Hubbard to compare with]. -- Joshua Kronengold (mneme at io.com) "I've been teaching |\ _,,,--,,_ ,) --^--him...to live, to breathe, to walk, to sample the /,`.-'`' -, ;-;;' /\\joy on each road, and the sorrow at each turning. |,4- ) )-,_ ) /\ /-\\\I'm sorry if I kept him out too late"--Vlad Taltos '---''(_/--' (_/-'