[kasjang]

Do You really want this to end? I don't.

[Mulch]

At least he finished it, GRRM, Robert Jordan (RIP), David Gemmell (RIP)etc.......

Nothing worse than being a fan of a series and the author not finishing the books. Gemmell was taken too early, Jordan cashed in and his life's work was incomplete, GRRM wtf???

Erikson shows respect to his fan base by consistently delivering a book a year

[Gothos]

At least now. 8 years between GotM and DHG? ;]

In any case, an end to the MBotF doesn't mean the end of Wu books. Just one large story arc. There's plenty of room for more.


Wouldn't YOU like a novel set during the last days of the Human First Empire? The conquest of Quon Tali? The Shattering of Emuhrlan?

[High house Me]

I want a book where one of the remaining armies e.g. ganoes' comes back to the empire and starts kicking arse and taking names

[D'iversify]

Mulch, on 08 November 2010 - 09:30 AM, said:

At least he finished it, GRRM, Robert Jordan (RIP), David Gemmell (RIP)etc.......

Nothing worse than being a fan of a series and the author not finishing the books. Gemmell was taken too early, Jordan cashed in and his life's work was incomplete, GRRM wtf???

Erikson shows respect to his fan base by consistently delivering a book a year

I sometimes wish I hadn't been the one at the Gemmell book signing I went to a few years back (2004 to be precise, just after he'd published Swords of Night & Day) who asked him "When you gonna write that 'War of the Twins' novel, eh". Turned out never.

[Fid]

From SE's FB status on Friday...

"finished edit on The Crippled God which means that's the last time I will ever read the novel front to back. Feels like I can die tomorrow and be fine with that, and all the rest of the time allotted me is, like, free. Oh, and started the next B&KB novella yesterday. And 'Excesses of Youth' will star a new character inspired by someone most of you know... Did I ever mention my evil streak?"

[Abyss]

Fid, on 21 November 2010 - 07:51 PM, said:

... And 'Excesses of Youth' will star a new character inspired by someone most of you know... Did I ever mention my evil streak?"

You just know he means Justin Bieber...



Back on topic, can anyone think of a single other ten book epic fantasy series that's actually complete?

WoT is out because of the author switch, and Brookes' Shannara is a series of trilogies, not really a single series.

So i'm stumped, and a little bit in awe - did SE just set the new benchmark?

[amphibian]

Abyss, on 21 November 2010 - 09:13 PM, said:

Back on topic, can anyone think of a single other ten book epic fantasy series that's actually complete?

What about the David Eddings series involving the Torak god, a talking blue ball and sorcerers? The one that's basically YA stuff. I think that one was finished.

[Abyss]

amphibian, on 21 November 2010 - 09:52 PM, said:

..What about the David Eddings series involving the Torak god, a talking blue ball and sorcerers? The one that's basically YA stuff. I think that one was finished.

Eddings BELGARIAD is two 'quintologies' and a bunch of one shots basically retelling the same story from other perspectives. Likely passes ten books in # but in terms of teling a single story from beginning to end, not quite the same. THIEVES WORLD has at least ten volumes but that's a series of anthology books. I'm sure there's more than ten CONAN books but those are all standalones. Feist has done more than ten books re Midkemia, but again, those are in sets of 3-4 books.

Maybe i'm being too nitpicky, but i'm thinking this hasn't been done before unless someone can show me different?

[MTS]

Technically that's two five book series set in the same universe. Technically. Can't think of any completed ones off the top of my head, but Wurts' Wars of Light and Shadow is just as long at the moment I think and is almost done.

EDIT - I guess there's Goodkind...and is Recluce done? That'd be another one, it's like 15 books or so.

This post has been edited by MTS: 21 November 2010 - 10:23 PM

[beru]

thats not books, thats waste of perfectly good paper...

[Abyss]

RECLUCE may be in there. Someone more familiar than i could say whether it's a series of standalones or a real continued story, but the #s seem to add up at least.

[MTS]

Whether there are series that have matched the MBotF in length or not, I don't think there has been a series with as much scope as this (well, arguably ASOIAF and WOT), so I definitely think he has set the benchmark there, if not in length. The character count alone would be unprecedented, I think.

[HoosierDaddy]

Recluce is weird. I don't know whether it is a series or not. I'm inclined to say that the 6 or 7 are definitely following a common plot line, despite it's vast difference in time settings. Others are duologies and stand alones.

[WhiskeyJackDaniels]

I've never read them, but isn't the Dark Tower series really long? Though the books are shorter I think.

[Slow Ben]

The Dark Tower is 7.

7 books of gunslingin badassery.


And he's apparently working on another set between 4 and 5.

[MTS]

Dark Tower is seven books long. There are a fair few that are that long (or will be), but not many at all that exceed ten and are one contiguous storyline.

[HoosierDaddy]

Dresden is at 12, but the books are about 1/3 of the size after MoI.

[Use Of Weapons]

Wurts's Wars of Light and Shadow is nowhere near done -- but it is the closest fantasy series to MBotF that comes to mind. Chung Kuo is 8, and complete, so might be the closest thing we have so far. Dune is possibly the closest in conception and execution, though incomplete at only 6 novels.

[Fid]

Ian Irvine's three worlds series, though that is 2 quartets and a trilogy - and the first is 200 years before the next 4 and then 10 years until last 3