[Rykymus]

A good reason to make it a trilogy?

 

[George Berger]

It just occurred to me, belatedly: "Brace".

 

[ElisaBlaisdell]

I saw the word "duology" on the cover of a novel twenty years ago. If the word isn't in "the dictionary", maybe "the dictionary" needs to improve.

(The last I heard, dictionary makers were still claiming that their work was descriptive, not prescriptive.)

 

[Ian Marks]

My immediate thought was that it should be called a "two-book set," implying that it's so important and unique that it couldn't possibly be contained between the covers of just one book...

... or maybe refer to it as "books one and two of the sweeping your title here saga"....

 

[AmsterdamAssassin]

Bilogy?

 

[Jan Hurst-Nicholson]

I've also got two books in a series - I call it 'a good start' 

(I have several more written, but not illustrated.)

 

[54706]

dikhotomos

Sounds like a hippo who acts like a jerk. Man, I wish I could use photoshop.

 

[41352]

Duet?

 

[CaseyHollingshead]

A two part series.

 

[vrabinec]

Don't know of a specific term, but if you follow the conventions for forming such words, the correctly formed neologism would be "diology" or "dyology," since "duo" is Latin, not Greek.

Dude, I can't decide whether it's admirable or pathetic that you would know this.

 

[tensen]

duology is the accepted term. And I just checked. It is in my Oxford dictionary.

 

[Carradee]

...because 'duology' is NOT a real word according to the dictionary!

'Trilogy' is
'Tetralogy' is

nothing for 2??

Oh, and yes, I did a Google search and there were some forums that said the correct term was called 'dilogy' but in searching the dictionary, 'dilogy' means:
so yeah, not what I'm looking for. LOL

'dilogy' doesn't even exist in the Merram Webster dictionary.

So does such a word exist for a 2-book series?

1. "Duology" is jargon, language specific to a field. Dictionaries frequently feature general usage, not jargon. Try reading a psychology book-they define terms differently, and much of the time, those field-specific definitions can't be found in your standard dictionary.

2. "Duology" is in the dictionary-you just have to check the right one. Generally, when I'm dealing with U.S. English and Merriam-Webster doesn't have something, next stop is Oxford or American Heritage, depending on what I'm working with.

Different dictionaries have their specialties. Merriam-Webster has a medical dictionary, for example, which will have definitions not in the others, and it's not unusual for me to find a word in the Merriam-Webster Collegiate dictionary that isn't in the Unabridged one.

 

[RM Prioleau]

1. "Duology" is jargon, language specific to a field. Dictionaries frequently feature general usage, not jargon. Try reading a psychology book-they define terms differently, and much of the time, those field-specific definitions can't be found in your standard dictionary.

2. "Duology" is in the dictionary-you just have to check the right one. Generally, when I'm dealing with U.S. English and Merriam-Webster doesn't have something, next stop is Oxford or American Heritage, depending on what I'm working with.

Different dictionaries have their specialties. Merriam-Webster has a medical dictionary, for example, which will have definitions not in the others, and it's not unusual for me to find a word in the Merriam-Webster Collegiate dictionary that isn't in the Unabridged one.

Thank you!

 

[angelamcconnell]

Hi, there! My vote would be for duology. It's what publishers have used in the past. I've only read one that I can remember, the Silver Call Duology by Dennis McKiernan (which was excellent, as I recall), but a quick search reveals he has at least one more called the Hel's Fire Duology. I'd go with publishing precedent on this one...

 

[ShaunaG]

I did a Google search for Duology and one of my top results was "Popular Duology Books" and it was a Goodreads.com entry. So looks like readers are accepting that term, even if we are mixing Latin and Greek incorrectly.

Wiktionary is calling it a "nonce word" or a made up word to "fit a need" and defines that need as "a series told in two parts."

Now that I know it's a nonce word being forced on people, I wish people had started with diology just so it made more sense. But then again, I am a big fan of C.S. Lewis so I guess I'm okay with it.

 

[Adriane Leigh]

I've heard it referred to on one occasion as a "duet".

 

[WHDean]

Well, Carradee found the word and the corresponding definition in Oxford, so the case is pretty much closed. I broke my own rule regarding assuming that someone must've actually looked it up; otherwise I'd have given the same answer.

 

[Pearson Moore]

Bilogy?

This is the officially recognised term, unless the novel deals with 18th-19th century sailing ships, in which case the official term is bilgery.

 

[Carradee]

Well, Carradee found the word and the corresponding definition in Oxford, so the case is pretty much closed. I broke my own rule regarding assuming that someone must've actually looked it up; otherwise I'd have given the same answer.

Do give Rebecca credit, please. As she said, she did look it up, in Merriam-Webster: the go-to dictionary for many U.S. publishers in the fiction world.

Not her fault she didn't know to check another dictionary before thinking it not a word.

 

[WHDean]

Do give Rebecca credit, please. As she said, she did look it up, in Merriam-Webster: the go-to dictionary for many U.S. publishers in the fiction world.

Not her fault she didn't know to check another dictionary before thinking it not a word.

I would give her credit, but I used up today's credit-giving quota on you. So, in a way, it's your fault that I can't give her credit.

[Procrastination has now reached dangerous levels]