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distant sequel en · NOUN

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1. (uncommon) A sequel that continues the story of an earlier work but is set much later in the same fictional timeline, often years, decades, or even centuries after the orignal.
   • This successful picture is, in fact, a distant sequel to the science-fiction movie classic Forbidden Planet (1956). 1996, Kirk H. Beetz, editor, Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction, volume 7, page 2151:
   • See also METROPOLIS, to which Fumoon is a distant sequel. 2001, Jonathan Clements, Helen McCarthy, The Anime Encyclopedia, A Guide to Japanese Animation Since 1917, page 210:
   • Without that distant sequel, the memory may appear as meaningless as the book; but for the moment I can only leave on record here the two facts to which I managed somehow and in some sense to testify. 1936, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Autobiography, page 102:
   • In the two distant sequels, the poet captures the exhilaration of the flight of the bird. 1981, Sélections Lardanchet (contributor), Bulletin des Lettres, page 66:

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direct sequel