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		sethammons on March 13, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lessons learned: writing really long fiction Hyperion, probably my favorite sci-fi, was deemed too long as a single book, so it was pretty much cut in half and sold as two books.

gpderetta on March 13, 2019 [–]

Do you have a source? It seems very hard to believe as thee first and second book are very, very different (I find the first book excellent, but the second only sufficient).

sethammons on March 13, 2019 | [–]

Might have been an interview at the end of the audio book.

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