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This is a relatively long work which started its life as a bunch of shorter works in the same continuity, which were then edited together to form a single more-or-less coherent narrative. Sometimes this occurs through the addition of a [[Framing Device]] or [[Encyclopedia Exposita]] to tie the different narrative threads together; sometimes it just means the stories themselves are edited to increase continuity and remove redundant exposition; sometimes they are just put in chronological order.
This is very common in literary science fiction, especially from [[The Fifties]] and [[The Sixties]] when there was a shift in the genre from publishing in short-story-dominated magazines to publishing novels. In those circles - and on [[The Other Wiki]] - it's generally referred to as a "[[fix-up]]", a name coined by science fiction writer [[A. E. van Vogt]].
Compare [[Adaptation Expansion]], [[Arc Welding]], [[Clip Show]], [[Compilation Rerelease]], and especially [[Compilation Movie]].
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''. Four RPGA modules (R1 ''To the Aid of Falx'', R2 ''The Investigation of Hydell'', R3 ''The Egg of The Phoenix'' and R4 ''Doc's Island'') were edited together to create I12 ''Egg of The Phoenix''. In an overlap with [[Canon Welding]], many of the early campaign settings (''[[Greyhawk]]'', ''[[Mystara]]'') were created by combining various standalone kingdoms used by the early authors that have been patchworked into a single world.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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