> -----Original Message----- > From: Derrill 'Kisc' Guilbert [mailto:lister at insaneninjahero.com] > Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 4:45 PM > To: dragaera at dragaera.info > Subject: Re: Robert Jordan > > > 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* > Seconded! The man started a plague on this world. *also shudders* W "Now, don't bother to flame me, because by the time you read this post I will be a different person from the one who wrote it. You cannot step in the same river twice." --Sarah Barton