: I'm going to suggest Jim Butcher's Dresden Files as an example. In every book, Harry Dresden faces a threat. Sometimes it's something that would doom the world, sometimes it's something

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I'm going to suggest Jim Butcher's Dresden Files as an example. In every book, Harry Dresden faces a threat. Sometimes it's something that would doom the world, sometimes it's something that would doom a friend. He saves the world from one of the Faerie Queens early on, so if it were about the threat much of the series would be anticlimactic.

Part of what makes this work is seeing how Dresden (or whoever is the protagonist - there's shorter fiction with other viewpoint characters) is going to win this time. The methods that saved the world from a group of necromancers are going to be useless for getting a dear friend out of a dangerous political fix another time. The problems come in varying sizes, but they're usually fresh.

There's also longer-range plots going on, with often unknown stakes, and character development.

So far, I believe there's fifteen novels and two book-sized collections of shorter fiction, and it's still exciting.

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