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Wizards: Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy 1

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message 1: by Mike (new)

Dec 04, 2022 11:15AM

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message 2: by lethe (last edited Dec 04, 2022 12:40PM) (new)

Dec 04, 2022 12:38PM

Unless all books have characters in common and/or share the same fictional universe, this is not a series according to GR policy.

ETA I see these are anthologies edited by Asimov. Therefore they are not a series. You could make a Listopia for it, if there isn't one yet.

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message 3: by Mike (new)

Dec 04, 2022 04:32PM

Is this a rule that has been only recently formalized? I feel like I've seen counterexamples to this criteria throughout my travels on GoodReads, examples:
https://www.goodreads.com/series/3248...
https://www.goodreads.com/series/3408...
https://www.goodreads.com/series/5767...
https://www.goodreads.com/series/3083...

The first example being the most Listopia style collection since it doesn't even consistently share a common author/editor. The last example technically sharing the same "fictional" universe of a tourist's view of Planet Earth. Are these just grandfathered-in examples, or just the result of another librarian being unfamiliar with GR's criteria for a series following through on a request from a user also unaware of the official criteria?

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message 4: by Scott (new)

Dec 04, 2022 04:36PM

It has always been the rule, but users do not always follow it.

Those examples are nonfiction which is a bit different.

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