Christopher Paolini

Because I think it's actually, there are two reasons.

One is the fact that the author puts so much work into creating that world.

They just don't want to let that work go to waste.

It's like, well, why should I put all the, you know, years of work into what's going to be one book?

You know, I really should do more.

And also I think readers enjoy that.

You

fiction is getting to experience a new world and a new setting and say, you know, it's a giant what if, you know, what if society did this?

What if religion did that?

What if physics did X, Y, Z?

And then to fully explore those ideas, it's going to be very difficult in a single book.

It's not impossible.

I mean, certainly authors have done that and very successfully, but a lot of times you want more space, right?

I think it depends on what the author is trying to focus on.

Some authors like China Mieville, who's a very interesting person in person, I have to say.

My very first Comic-Con, I got put on a panel with him.

I was 19 and I was put on a panel with him.

Him and Terry Brooks and Peter David and me, and they were all lovely people and we had a wonderful conversation.

But I think it just depends what the author is interested in.

But one of the difficulties in writing speculative fiction is if you really are truly trying to create a new world and a new future and even sometimes new technology, it requires a new way of thinking.