Timeline for Was Dune originally a trilogy?
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| Feb 24, 2016 at 2:46 | comment | added | Jon B | The editions I had were labelled "The Dune Trilogy" and "The Second Dune Trilogy". | |
| Aug 29, 2014 at 14:09 | comment | added | Elliott Frisch | Originally it was to be an article called They Stopped the Moving Sands. That article wasn't published until much later as part of The Road to Dune. | |
| Aug 29, 2014 at 13:09 | comment | added | Himarm | The end of the third book also sets up future books, so i feel if he had a trilogy in mind he would not have ended children of the dune in the way he did. | |
| Aug 29, 2014 at 11:54 | comment | added | Mike Scott | Not in the 1960s, they didn't -- that's more an 80s or 90s thing. In the 60s, nearly all SF novels were first published as serials in magazines, with Dune being no exception, and they wouldn't run a serial lasting more than four months or taking up more than a certain amount of the magazine. | |
| Aug 29, 2014 at 10:16 | comment | added | Dreamwalker | Might be worth mentioning that they usually did this due to a book overflowing the maximum pages they could bind. They obviously have gotten a lot better at this these days :) | |
| Aug 29, 2014 at 7:27 | history | answered | Mike Scott | CC BY-SA 3.0 |