distant sequel

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   A sequel that continues the story of an earlier work but is set much later in the same…

   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.

   • 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.
   • In the two distant sequels, the poet captures the exhilaration of the flight of the bird.
   • This successful picture is, in fact, a distant sequel to the science-fiction movie classic Forbidden Planet (1956).

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