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From: leeper@mtgzz.UUCP (m.r.leeper)
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Subject: Re: Sequels
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Date: Thu, 6-Jun-85 23:44:44 EDT
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 >Sometimes a series should have stopped at one.  Sometimes
 >not.  I've  never heard anyone suggest that Asimov should
 >have stopped with _Foundation_.

Slight correction: Asimov wrote a series, all right, but it didn't
start with FOUNDATION, at least not as a novel.  He wrote a series of
short pieces for magazines that were collected together into the three
books, FOUNDATION, FOUNDATION AND EMPIRE, and SECOND FOUNDATION.  He
didn't even know, probably, when he went from FOUNDATION to FOUNDATION
AND EMPIRE.  He wouldn't have known where FOUNDATION ended so it is
less likely he would have stopped there.  Anybody know if it was even
Asimov who did the dividing of his stories into the books.  I get the
impression it wasn't Asimov from things he has said at conventions and
in print.  I know he says that he did not like the title I, ROBOT when
it was chosen for the book of his robot stories.

				Mark Leeper
				...ihnp4!mtgzz!leeper