Dragaera

The This of That

Thu Apr 1 08:05:00 PST 2004

One of the unspoken Rules of Fantasy/SF Trilogies is that their titles 
all have to have the same recognizable cadence or structure. Among the 
most common are "The This of That" or "Noun Verbing" or  "The Adjective 
Noun".

I understand it, and don't fault it. After all, it helps a reader find 
and recognize a series of books as such.  TPotD and TLoCB would have 
been nicely completed by TEoDM, but I'm happy to make wine out of 
squished grapes, that this series does not obey the common pattern. Who 
needs trilateral symmetry when we have septa-decimal symmetry to worry 
about?

Noam

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"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn 
better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible."
          -- A Yale University management professor in response to Fred 
Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service  (Smith 
went on to found Federal Express Corp.)