br@cstvax.UUCP (Brian Ritchie) (12/18/85)
In article <1766@utcsri.UUCP> tom@utcsri.UUCP (Tom Nadas) writes: > >Credit where credit is due. Indeed! > It was Isaac Asimov who thought up >the "fourth book in the trilogy" joke for his Foundation series, >which predates Douglas Adams fourth book, however his publisher >Judy Lynn del Rey talked him out of it. > Spike Milligan's WWII trilogy was the first example I came across of that by-now-rather-tired-and-much-overused phrase. This was YONKS before Foundation's Edge and The Guide. I remember because I thought it was funny then. -- Brian Ritchie.
sher@rochester.UUCP (David Sher) (12/21/85)
Talking about authors who couldn't stop writing: consider the Bible. -- -David Sher sher@rochester seismo!rochester!sher
ags@pucc-h (Dave Seaman) (12/28/85)
In article <1766@utcsri.UUCP> tom@utcsri.UUCP (Tom Nadas) writes: > >Credit where credit is due. > > It was Isaac Asimov who thought up >the "fourth book in the trilogy" joke for his Foundation series, >which predates Douglas Adams fourth book, however his publisher >Judy Lynn del Rey talked him out of it. I thought it was Wagner who invented the "fourth in the trilogy." Of course he wrote the fourth one first... :-) (You're probably thinking "Das Rheingold," but actually he wrote "Goetterdaemmerung" first. Then came "Siegfried" because "Goetterdaemmerung" was getting too long, then "Die Walkure" because "Siegfried" was getting too long, then...) -- Dave Seaman pur-ee!pucc-h!ags