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pinguino k from North Hollywood, USA, 2007 |
Another way, the more elegant to my mind, is to have a minor character from a book become the dominant one in another, as Paul Scott did with Booker-winning Staying On, after writing the Jewel in the Crown series. Susan Howatch made it the dominant feature of her Starbridge series of novels.
Giorgio Bassani's Romazo di Ferrara was five novellas linked in this way, of which the most famous is The Garden of the Finzi-Continis.
Yet another method is to write a prequel, explaining something about the earlier life of one of a novel's characters : Philippa Gregory, whose The White Queen is currently being shown on British TV, is releasing The White Princess this summer, which is at least chronologically later, being about the White Queen's (Elizabeth Woodville's) daughter (Elizabeth of York). But the novels were written out of historical order.
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3rd in the Cousins' War sequence but a prequel to The White Queen |
How do you feel about sequels? Which novel would you most like to have one? My candidate is Michael Faber's The Crimson Petal and the White.
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I would second your choice but am trying to think of my own one!
Like you, I love companion novels. The idea of getting to see the world and perhaps even the original protagonist from a new perspective is deeply intriguing to me! :) But. I think in the end,it depends on whether there is more to learn about a main character or his/her story that can only be learned by walking in his/her footsteps. :)
As a reader of speculative fiction and children's/YA books, I have had enough of sequels. Really. Fat fantasy trilogies were bad enough, but nowadays there are fourteen-volume series that you have to read in their entirety if you want to know how it ends. And as a reviewer, I get Volume 13 of that series when I haven't read the first twelve. Enough! I'm for standalones, although I don't mind, say, Terry Pratchett's Discworld books which you can mostly read standalone, though it helps to be familiar with the characters. And I don't mind a companion volume set in the same universe that you can read standalone - I'm working on one myself, with a character who appeared briefly in the previous book, at an earlier stage in his life. But it won't matter if you haven't read the other one.
OK, I wrote a comment but then decided to write that sequel. So I have thought about this post, but I'm not going to reveal my idea here! Thank you, Maven!
Well, being nearly at the end of writing the first book in a two-part set, I have to hope! But perhaps the second book doesn't count as a sequel - in the sense that it completes the story, rather than adding to it?
good luck!
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