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Robert Jordan (was: Seen the other night....)

Fri Feb 20 13:30:14 PST 2004



---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Casey Rousseau" <casey at the-bat.net>
Date:  Fri, 20 Feb 2004 15:15:18 -0500

>KG wrote: 
>> 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 last, but certainly far from least, how about Zelazny's Amber!  (not
>trilogies, and it's been a while since I read 'em so I may be
>misremembering the POV count but ...)

... Dude, there's Corwin, and then there's his really annoying son Merlin.  No other POVs as far as I know.  (And trust me, by the middle of the Merlin chronicles, I would've been dying for a POV from even Flora.)

... Wait.  Does Julian May's Pliocene Exile count?  AFAIK, there are ... <counts>  aikenelizabethfeliceculluketdion - LOTS of POVs there, and it's epic-er than McCaffrey at her least-lame.  

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MJ