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7	This is a relatively long work which started its life as a bunch of shorter works in the same continuity, which were then edited together to form a single more-or-less coherent narrative. Sometimes this occurs through the addition of a FramingDevice or EncyclopediaExposita to tie the different narrative threads together; sometimes it just means the stories themselves are edited to increase continuity and remove redundant exposition; sometimes they are just put in chronological order (or left in AnachronicOrder for artistic purposes).
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9	This is very common in literary science fiction, especially from TheFifties and TheSixties when there was a shift in the genre from publishing in short-story-dominated magazines to publishing novels. In those circles it's generally referred to as a "fix-up", a name coined by science fiction writer Creator/AEVanVogt.
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11	Compare AdaptationExpansion, ArcWelding, ClipShow, CompilationRerelease, and especially CompilationMovie. For the inverse, see DividedForPublication.
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13	Not to related to PatchworkFic, which is when a fanfic combines characters and/or other elements from different adaptations of the same single story; or to PatchworkKids, which is when a child's personality and appearance are essentially just a mashup of their parents' own.
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21	* The plot of the film ''Film/CoolCatSavesTheKids'' is a patchwork of three short films. The three are ''Cool Cat Stops Bullying'', ''Cool Cat in the Christmas Parade'' and ''Cool Cat Finds a Gun''.
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25	* The ''Literature/ArabianNights'' are a collection of Arabian stories held together by a framing device, in which a well-read young woman recites one story a night to a king who intends to kill her, yet always feels compelled to wait till the following night to hear more; by the last night he has fallen in love with her, and they get married.
26	* ''Literature/{{Accelerando}}'' by Creator/CharlesStross started out as nine short stories.
27	* Creator/JoeHaldeman's ''All My Sins Remembered''
28	* Several of Creator/IsaacAsimov's most famous books, including the first three ''Literature/FoundationSeries'' books as well as ''Literature/IRobot''.
29	* The book ''Berserker'' is a collection of Creator/FredSaberhagen's "Literature/{{Berserker}}" short stories linked together by narration by the Third Historian of the Carmpan (alien) race.
30	* ''Literature/TheBigFour'' by Creator/AgathaChristie was originally a series of short stories that were published in ''The Sketch'' before being converted into a novel.
31	* ''Blood's a Rover'' by Creator/HarlanEllison, a fix up of ''Literature/ABoyAndHisDog'' and the other stories about Vic and Blood. The final part of the book is in screenplay format, as Ellison passed on before he could convert it to prose.
32	* ''Literature/ACanticleForLeibowitz'' was originally three short stories: "A Canticle for Leibowitz", "And the Light Is Risen", and "The Last Canticle". The novel version is extensively edited, even changing the names of some of the characters.
33	* Creator/CliffordSimak's ''City''.
34	* ''Literature/{{Dispatches}}:'' The copyright page states "Portions of this book were originally published in ''New American Review'' no. 7, ''Esquire'' and ''Magazine/RollingStone''." The reader can only guess about which portions were published where.
35	* ''Literature/{{Dune}}'' is an expanded and reworked version of two shorter works, [[note]]Or if you prefer, a very long novel expanded and reworked from two merely long novels[[/note]] ''Dune World'' and ''The Prophet of Dune'', that were originally published in ''Analog'' magazine.
36	* Creator/MichaelSwanwick's ''The Dragons of Babel''.
37	* Creator/OrsonScottCard's ''Literature/EnderInExile'' stitches together several pre-existing short stories with some new story and narrative. Important characters from the beginning and end of the book are not present in the end and beginning at all.
38	* ''Literature/TheGardenOfSinners'' is a downplayed example: while it invokes the appearance of a patchwork story, between its multiple sub-novellas appearing in an AnachronicOrder, having wildly fluctuating lengths, and getting written and published over a period of several years, it is not so much a compilation, as a single novel with multiple expansions. The first to be written were the first five chapters/novellas, ''Overlooking View'' to ''Paradox Spiral'', which are also the only ones to fully employ AnachronicOrder for thematic effect. Nasu then wrote and published two more novellas, ''Oblivion Recorder'' and ''Murder Speculation, Part 2'', a year later to round off dangling plot threads. Ten years after the original publication, the story was again expanded with ''Future Gospel'', consisting of a short story set a decade after the main story, and an {{interquel}} novella. Then ''another'' five years down the line, Nasu was cajoled into writing one more novella, ''Final Record'', which borders CanonDiscontinuity and isn't typically included with the main body of the novel.
39	* ''Literature/GhostRoads'': The first book, ''Sparrow Hill Road'' (2014), was originally a group of short stories published online in 2010.
40	* Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/TheGunslinger'' was originally published as a series of short stories/novellas (hence its more episodic nature compared to the rest of ''Franchise/TheDarkTower'' series).
41	* ''Literature/AHeroOfOurTime'' originated as three serialized novellas, ''Bela'' (1838), ''The Fatalist'' (1839), and ''Taman'' (1840), united only by their protagonist Grigory Pechorin and setting, Northern Caucasus. They were then compiled into one big novel, with the author adding the short story ''Maxim Maximich'' and the (almost novel-sized) novella ''Princess Mary'' to the first omnibus edition in 1940[[note]]in the since-canonical, but still {{anachronic order}} of ''Bela'', ''Maxim Maximich'', ''Taman'', ''Princess Mary'', and ''The Fatalist''[[/note]], and a foreword [[AuthorTract explaining his authorial intent]] in the second (1841). Lermontov also wrote what is essentially an OriginsEpisode for the recurring character of Maxim Maximich, titled ''A Caucasian'', in 1840, but it historically isn't included in the canonical novel, but sometimes published under the same cover as a companion piece.
42	* Creator/RayBradbury's ''The Illustrated Man'' is a number of short stories with a FramingDevice about the titular Illustrated Man. All the stories are seen in his tattoos.
43	* Creator/LarryNiven's ''Literature/KnownSpace'' "novels" ''Flatlander'' and ''Literature/{{Crashlander}}'' are actually his Gil "The Arm" Hamilton stories and Beowulf Schaeffer stories (respectively) collected together and given [[FramingDevice an external story]] to fit into.
44	* ''Literature/TheLastWish'', the first book in ''Franchise/TheWitcher'' series, is actually a compilation of six short stories previously written by Andrzej Sapkowski about Geralt, with a FramingStory added to hold them together. The stories are presented in AnachronicOrder, with the first one, ''The Witcher'', being the last one chronologically.
45	* Ray Bradbury's ''Literature/TheMartianChronicles''.
46	* In the 1980s, Creator/MercedesLackey published several Tarma and Kethry stories in Creator/MarionZimmerBradley's ''Sword and Sorceress'' anthology series. Then, after publishing the first few ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'' books, she did some ArcWelding and compiled some of the short stories into ''The Oathbound'', with a little editing and fresh interstitial tissue between them (including a few references to Valdemar) to make them more of a narrative. The third Tarma and Kethry book, ''Oathblood'' is an anthology that includes some from ''The Oathbound'' and some stories that hadn't been compiled, as well as a few new ones, but each chapter is fully discrete.
47	* ''Literature/PandorasLegions'' combines Christopher Anvil's novel ''Pandora's Planet'' with several associated shorter works.
48	* Creator/RaymondChandler's first ''five'' Literature/PhilipMarlowe novels are cobbled out of earlier stories, as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Chandler_bibliography#Novels noted]] at Website/TheOtherWiki.
49	* The ''Literature/RangersApprentice'' books started out as a series of short stories by the author to get his son interested in reading before he decided to make them into a coherent series.
50	* ''Literature/ToRidePegasus'' by Creator/AnneMcCaffrey is a compilation of previously-published stories with one new story/chapter at the beginning to establish the setting and premise.
51	* The first ''Literature/{{Riverworld}}'' novel, ''To Your Scattered Bodies Go'', was originally two novellas, "The Day of the Great Shout" and "The Suicide Express".
52	* About half of James White's ''Literature/SectorGeneral'' books are stitched together out of short stories.
53	* ''[[Literature/TheShipWho The Ship Who Sang]]'' by Creator/AnneMcCaffrey is a compilation of previously-published stories with one new story/chapter at the end to round things off.
54	* Large portions of M John Harrison's ''Signs of Life'' were originally published as stand-alone short stories, although probably planned from the start as a novel.
55	* ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'' wasn't even compiled together into its current relatively cohesive form by J.R.R. Tolkien himself, but rather by his son Christopher. To quote the latter's foreword:
56	-->The ''Ainulindalë'' and ''Valaquenta'', which are given at the beginning, are indeed closely associated with ''The Silmarillion'', but the ''Akallabêth'' and ''Of the Rings of Power'', which appear at the end, are (it must be emphasised) wholly separate and independent. They are included according to my father's explicit intention; and by their inclusion the entire history is set forth from the Music of the Ainur in which the world began to the passing of the Ringbearers from the Havens of Mithlond at the end of the Third Age.
57	* ''Literature/TufVoyaging''
58	* The ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'' volume ''Borders of Infinity'' by Creator/LoisMcMasterBujold, which adds a framing narration to tie together three novellas.
59	* A.E. van Vogt's own ''Literature/TheVoyageOfTheSpaceBeagle''.
60	* Pretty much every ''Literature/WildCards'' novel.
61	* ''Literature/TheWorldAndThorinn'' was assembled from three of Damon Knight's short stories.
62	* Creator/RobertSilverberg's ''Literature/TheWorldInside'' was expanded from about five short stories set in the same universe.
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66	* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''. Four RPGA modules (R1 ''To the Aid of Falx'', R2 ''The Investigation of Hydell'', R3 ''The Egg of The Phoenix'' and R4 ''Doc's Island'') were edited together to create I12 ''Egg of The Phoenix''.
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70	* The original ''Kingmaker'' tabletop campaign for ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' has a MonsterOfTheWeek format, with little connection between the stories of its six modules. The CRPG adaptation ''VideoGame/PathfinderKingmaker'' welds them into a single coherent MythArc, with the final module's ArcVillain Nyrissa being turned into TheManBehindTheMan to the {{Arc Villain}}s of the preceding modules.
71	* ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' basically runs on this, meshing the plots of almost every HumongousMecha Anime ever made (along with [[Anime/CowboyBebop some]] [[Anime/DevilMan others]]) together into something else entirely.
72	* ''VideoGame/{{Ys}} Book [[VideoGame/YsIAncientYsVanishedOmen I]] & [[VideoGame/YsIIAncientYsVanishedTheFinalChapter II]]'' for the UsefulNotes/TurboGrafx16 didn't merely slap ''Ys I'' and ''Ys II'' onto a single CD, but merged them together into one double-length game.
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76	* ''Animation/AdventuresOfMowgli'', the Russian version of ''Literature/TheJungleBook'', is a series of shorts which are sometimes released or shown as a single movie.
77	* ''Anime/{{Robotech}}'' can be seen as this, as the material used for it were not related to each other in anyway aside from sharing the same production studio.
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