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Andrew Kneath
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No mods, this is not a movie thread as such, so please don't move it or squish it.
Are there any perfect original/sequel pair or perfect trilogies in fiction? If not then what comes closest?
(This could be literature, films, comics, TV anything you like.)
What I am talking about is two or three distinct but related stories where all parts compliment each other.
Lord of the Rings does not count as that is just ONE story published in three parts.
There are of course examples of sequels which are better than the original but they are excluded from this discussion as the originals were inferior.
Any ideas?
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Michael Cross
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Perfect trilogy in fiction? Original Dragonlance trilogy by Weis and Hickman
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Chad Carter
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I don't know that it's a "perfect" trilogy, but the "Blue Rose" novels of Peter Straub, including MYSTERY, KOKO, and THE THROAT is a pretty great hunk of literature.
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Daniel Kendrick
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John Christopher's Tripods.
If (IF) counting more then 3 books I'd have to say Simon Hawke's Timewar novels or Zelazney's Amber series (the first five)
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Ted Pugliese
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JB's Generations I, II, and III?
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Lance Hill
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Back to the Future! It still amazes me how closely they tied Part II to the original without them being filmed (or even written) together.
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Mike Sawin
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Lonesome Dove, The Streets of Laredo, Commanche Moon and Dead Man's Walk tell that tale of Captain Woodrow McCall's life, which just happens to span the history of the American West.
They are amazing books, written about an incredible character. I tend to read them every year or so. Commanche Moon, especially (with the amazing throughline of perpetual sidekick PeaEye) ranks among my favorite books of fiction ever.
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Josh Goldberg
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"Back to the Future" comes immediately to mind. "Star Trek II, III, and IV", after that. And that three part "Quantum Leap"; that one had a great commercial ("He will lover her in three different times, as three different men", or something very much like that).
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Marc Foxx
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I've always been amazed at the way Heinlein was able to tie all of his "future history" together.
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Sam Karns
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Wasn't there a trilogy of sorts involving the Hobgoblin saga in The Amazing Spider-Man?
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John Mietus
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The Tales of the King's Blades trilogy by Dave Duncan kicks all kinds of
serious ass.
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Gregory Harshman
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Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After and The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas (The Vicomte de Bragelonne was originally published as one book, but has since been published as three: The Vicomte de Bragelonne, Louise de la Vallière and The Man in the Iron Mask)
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