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** And then in the ''next'' Doorstopper...
* [[Isaac Asimov]] put the ''[[Foundation]]'' series on a decades-long hiatus in the 1950s in no small part because he found it tedious to work a synopsis of the previous stories in so that new readers would know what was going on. He also got fed up with having to reread the material himself to keep it consistent, not that it did him much good. A fan later handed him a long list of inconsistencies within the 'Foundation'' stories.
* Attempting to get into George R.R. Martin's ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' involves going through five (eventually, seven) [[
** Interestingly, the author later wrote two prequel novellas (with a third on its way), starting with ''The Hedge Knight'' which essentially reproduced the Ice and Fire themes about power and politics down to a much smaller and far easier-to-digest form, and radically less intimidating to newcomers, particularly the graphic novel adaptations.
** Also interesting to see how the apparently very faithful HBO TV adaptation ''[[Game of Thrones]]'' (currently in production) handles the uber-serialised, densely-plotted structure and the vast cast of characters in the story.
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