[hinkley]

Didn’t Verne also serialize his stories? This has been going on for a long long time but for sure Clark and Asimov have books that were serials in periodicals.

Edit: looked it up. Dickens and Dumas preceded Jules Verne in serials being turned into novels.

[soneca]

But Asimov’s short stories weren’t a serialized novel from the start. They were individual short stories that he later combined with small changes to form novels. It’s different from what Dickens, Dumas, and Verne did.