Martin’s saga is 5 books and basically 5,000 pages long, and it is not close to being complete.
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Robert Lynn Aspirin’s humorous fantasy series has run for five decades and provided fans with 20 novels, sitting at approximately 4,821 pages. Gunslinger Drawing of the Three Wolves of the Calla Dark Tower VII See my reviews of several novels in the series. King’s epic has run 8 books and 4,600 pages, and it will only grow larger. Two more books planned in the series.ĭavid Gemmell was a master of heroic fantasy none of his books more well known than this beloved series, which stretched to 11 novels with approximately 4,432 pages.
Glen Cook has led this bunch of mercenaries across two continents and into a few different dimensions through nine books with 3,808 pages. I do read the suggestions and modify this list from time to time. While I realize word count would be a more reliable measure of true length, I found it difficult to get (what I considered) reliable data regarding word count of all fantasy series, so I settled for number of pages in series, which seems to be a fairly accurate measure of total length.Īfter you read through the list, please nominate any others that you feel should be included. With this in mind, I did some research and came up with thirty of the “Longest Fantasy” series ever published. (I’ve read that the Fantasy Review came up with the label “Herbert’s Syndrome” when Dune creator Frank Herbert kept pumping out Dune books back in the 1980s.) Not “bloated” in the sense that they were terrible reads (though there are some that were horrid) but rather that the author had contracted “Herbert’s Syndrome”, in which he is overwhelmed by the temptation to keep expanding his popular universe. Having gone through this horror myself more than once, I wondered what fantasy series in my life (I was born in 1970) were the longest and most bloated. Even the authors know they are bloated beasts, for example take Tad Williams, writer of the “Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn” series, who labeled that trilogy “The Bloated Epic.”
The ones that begin so grandly then morph into multi-volume nightmares that never seem to end. Every one of you has done it: fallen in love with an epic, fantasy series that goes on and on forever.
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