So I was thinking the other day that all the Big Recent Video Game Titles I can name come with DLC. It seems like a foregone conclusion now that if a game has a big budget and release and all that good stuff, a few months later, it’ll get some. It’s not even limited to souped-up weapons or alternate outfits anymore, either. Games like Mass Effect and Dishonored give us entire mini plot arcs, where a different character becomes the protagonist, or your character solves a side conflict.

My question is, has anybody ever seen this happen with books? Not like that, not like paying an extra five bucks for a text file of the secret epilogue chapter or anything. But where a writer went back to a world, and told smaller stories from the same place - stories that weren’t necessary for understanding the original plot, but added color to the universe and were fun in their own right.

Because I really love my noirverse, and there are more stories I could tell in it beyond what I have planned. Inhabitants of retro-future LA whose lives have nothing to do with the murder mystery surrounding Ada & Co., or side characters that would make the story too slow and complicated if I tried to flesh them out more. The problem is I wouldn’t have enough content for them to make them quote-un-quote ~*novel length*~. They’d just be short stories.

So yeah, aside from The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner [‘cause I’m already aware of that one,] have you ever seen examples of this kind of companion content?