With this in mind, I did some research and came up with thirty of the “Longest Fantasy” series ever published. (I’ve read that the Fantasy Review came up with the label “Herbert’s Syndrome” when Dune creator Frank Herbert kept pumping out Dune books back in the 1980s.) ![]() Not “bloated” in the sense that they were terrible reads (though there are some that were horrid) but rather that the author had contracted “Herbert’s Syndrome”, in which he is overwhelmed by the temptation to keep expanding his popular universe. Having gone through this horror myself more than once, I wondered what fantasy series in my life (I was born in 1970) were the longest and most bloated. Even the authors know they are bloated beasts, for example take Tad Williams, writer of the “Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn” series, who labeled that trilogy “The Bloated Epic.” ![]() The ones that begin so grandly then morph into multi-volume nightmares that never seem to end. ![]() Every one of you has done it: fallen in love with an epic, fantasy series that goes on and on forever.
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