![]() ![]() ![]() These stories span genres, including near futuristic sci fi (The Vela or Machina), urban fantasy (Ilona Andrews’s “Innkeeper Chronicles”), heart-pounding stories that will keep you guessing (C. Some feature added features like music or illustrations, making use of transmedia opportunities made possible in the digital world. Others are developed in a television-style writer’s room. Some rely on a single author who publishes their novel bit by bit, keeping readers hooked. Modern serials make use of both styles of writing. The digital medium is perfect for publishing stories as episodes, and modern readers who are used to receiving stories in an episodic format, thanks to television, may appreciate the medium in a more nuanced way than their historical predecessors. But if that’s true, right now might just be the platinum age of serial fiction. If there was a golden age of serial fiction, it might have been the era when Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Mark Twain were publishing their stories-in-installments in print periodicals, with their readers desperately waiting for the next part of the tale. ![]()
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