Joshua Kronengold wrote: > 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]. > > You really shouldn't compare anything that anyone likes with Hubbard. *shudder* Derrill