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Old July 7th, 2008, 04:48 AM

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HoneyBadger said:
Gormenghast was in several volumes too. The point isn't that authors suddenly jumped from tiny books to huge series, like it had never occurred to them before to continue their work along the same vein, it's that suddenly it was *expected* from them, to do so.
Not coincidentally, this happened at about the same time that personal computers and word processors entered the scene.
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