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From: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: trilogies and other multi-volume works
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Date: Tue, 31-Dec-85 16:24:27 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 31 16:24:27 1985
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Reply-To: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader)
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Summary: 

> Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary defines 'trilogy' as follows:
> 
> 	a series of three dramas or sometimes three literary or
> 	musical compositions that although each is in one sense
> 	complete are closely related and develop a single theme
> 
> By this definition, neither THE LORD OF THE RINGS nor THE BOOK OF THE
> NEW SUN is a trilogy or tetralogy.  Rather, these are single stories
> published in multiple volumes.  ...

And, of course, the so-called FOUNDATION trilogy also was not one.
It was a series of NINE closely related stories that happened to fill
three volumes of the size then considered convenient.  (The first one
was written especially for the book publication, and the others had
appeared in order in Astounding or Analog, whatever it was then called.)

Mark Brader