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    Image of Wyldemusick Wyldemusick
    10/26/09

    In reply to 12 Unfinished SF Novels We Wish We Could Read
    The fifth book in the McGill Feighan series by Kevin O'Donnell. PLAINSwas supposed to be almost done back in 1990 or so, and to be released by Tor, but Kevin all but fell out of the writing world at that point. The series itself was planned to be ten books -- the first three appeared in short order, and the fourth after a delay of several years...and then nada. #books
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    10/25/09

    In reply to 12 Unfinished SF Novels We Wish We Could Read
    Top of my wish-list would be the conclusion to Tony Daniel's trilogy that began with "Metaplanetary", continued with "Superluminal", and then his publisher declined to publish the conclusion... #books
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    Image of ghopkins1138 ghopkins1138
    10/25/09

    In reply to 12 Unfinished SF Novels We Wish We Could Read
    George Alec Effinger began a fourth Budayeen novel. The first chapter can be found in the collection, "Budayeen Nights."
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    Image of bagumpity bagumpity
    10/25/09

    In reply to 12 Unfinished SF Novels We Wish We Could Read
    Just wait a few years. If the author is still alive, he'll die and his family will either miraculously find a "99% finished manuscript" or find some semi-literate hack to write the sequel. Or the SyFy channel will use the title of the books, the character names, and a vague reference to the original plot for a "dramatic reinterpretation" of one of the existing works.

    The spinning of authors' corpses in their graves is what keeps the magnetic poles of the Earth from suddenly reversing. Without posthumous "collaborations," we'd all have to buy new windshield compasses to hang our fuzzy dice from. #books
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    Image of Bootknife-Jackson Bootknife-Jackson
    10/24/09

    In reply to Journey To The Bottom Of Jules Verne's Legacy
    hey, Wally Wood! #books
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    Image of Starwatcher Starwatcher
    10/24/09

    In reply to 12 Unfinished SF Novels We Wish We Could Read
    Another tragically incomplete project is Miracle Man, my all-time favorite Alan Moore/Neil Gaiman comics series. Will it ever be completed? I have my doubts.
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    Image of van_line van_line
    10/24/09

    @Starwatcher: now that Marvel owns Marvelman and supposedly Neil Gaiman is interested, this might actually happen. #books
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    Image of Starwatcher Starwatcher
    10/24/09

    In reply to 12 Unfinished SF Novels We Wish We Could Read
    Yeah, the sad thing is, almost all of those writers were/are favorites of mine: Dick, Delany, Lovecraft, Butler and Disch especially. Why is it that the writers I love are always tragic figures who never wind up completing their best stuff? It doesn't matter the genre--they inevitably get cut down in the midst of something amazing. And still I aspire to be like them. What's that say about me?
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    Image of bobert bobert
    10/24/09

    In reply to 12 Unfinished SF Novels We Wish We Could Read
    "The Geography of Dreams", Stephen R. Boyett's sequel to "The Architect of Sleep".

    It's 23 years now since you published "Architect", SteveBoy - and it was far better than "Ariel," which you are publishing a sequel to.

    I know, I know, you have bad memories about the Architect sequels - I've read your usenet posting, "The Archetype of Slop," dozens of times. And I'm sure you were right when you looked back over what you'd written, and found it was wordy and gassy, and you tossed it in the bin.

    But you know, if you could ever finish up what you started in "Archetype", with the same quality, you'd be up there with Phil Dick and Ursula LeGuin as one of the greats who transcend the genre, and people will be reading it a hundred years from now. #books
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    10/24/09

    @bobert: I've said it before, and I'll say it again...
    CAN I HAZ MOAR RACCOONZ? #books
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    Image of Dessad Dessad
    10/24/09

    In reply to 12 Unfinished SF Novels We Wish We Could Read
    You might as well add George R.R. Martin's "Song of Ice and Fire" series--the guy is never going to finish it, thanks to his questionable handling/revision of the series structure from "Feast" onward.

    Just a stunningly 'bad move', in my opinion, and I wouldn't be surprised if he never finishes the series at this rate. #books
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    Image of J_Frank_Parnell J_Frank_Parnell
    10/26/09

    @Dessad: Your words, they make me cry. Only because I believe them to be true. #books
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    10/24/09

    In reply to 12 Unfinished SF Novels We Wish We Could Read
    Not exactly unfinished novels, but unfinished series: John Barnes has started THREE separate series of books, each including huge plot threads that the reader wants to see resolved, and hasn't finished any of them: the Century Next Door series (four books, last book was published in 2002), the Thousand Cultures series (four books, last book published in 2006), and the Jak Jinnaka series (three books, last book published in 2003).

    Great books, but we'd love to see some closure, somewhere... #books
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    Image of Wookie1972 Wookie1972
    10/24/09

    In reply to 12 Unfinished SF Novels We Wish We Could Read
    It's not a book, but I would love to see something done (perhaps a graphic novel?) with David Lynch's Ronnie Rocket. I've read the synopsis and it sounds absolutely insane, but in a good way. #books
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    Image of Wookie1972 Wookie1972
    10/24/09

    In reply to 12 Unfinished SF Novels We Wish We Could Read
    I hate to be mean, but isn't that a little bitchy on Stephen King's part? I mean, he's got more money than God. #books
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    Image of Moff Moff
    10/24/09

    @Wookie1972: Well, no. I mean, by that logic, isn't it bitchy of him to keep selling his writing at all, rather than give it away for free?

    He may never have finished the actual writing; in that case, it wouldn't be like he was withholding the material, just that he wasn't going to produce it for free. Which he was totally honest about from the outset, so I don't think that's bitchy. (Wikipedia does say he's said he'll finish it someday.) #books
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    Image of Wookie1972 Wookie1972
    10/24/09

    @Moff: I guess you're right. But I know if I'd paid my dollar (this is the first I'd heard of this, btw) I'd be ticked off. #books
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    Image of Slatz_Grobnik Slatz_Grobnik
    10/26/09

    @Wookie1972: In his defense, sorta, this was ten years ago. He was trying to figure out what the new model for things would be possibly at a point where people weren't ready for the idea.

    Likewise, the method and his attitude does seem stuck somewhere between the contribution model and the pay-per-play one. #books
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    Image of Wookie1972 Wookie1972
    10/26/09

    @Slatz_Grobnik: I can see your point. I just find King a little odd, considering that he has said that he has "retired" and has put out more books than several "nonretired" authors. #books
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    Image of Moff Moff
    10/24/09

    In reply to 12 Unfinished SF Novels We Wish We Could Read
    Joel Rosenberg (who's best known for his Guardians of the Flame series, which I've never read) (and who is this guy, not this guy) wrote a book called D'Shai and a sequel called The Hour of the Octopus in the early '90s, which are fantasy mysteries told in the first person that are just pitch-perfect. Supposedly, he's planned a third book, The Last Assassin, but there is, infuriatingly, no news on it yet.

    JOEL ROSENBERG, PLEASE WRITE THE DAMN BOOK. Anyone else ever read the first two? #books
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    Image of Zidel333 Zidel333
    10/24/09

    In reply to 12 Unfinished SF Novels We Wish We Could Read
    The REAL Book 7 of Dune by Frank Herbert. None of that Kevin J. Anderson and Brian Herbert crap. Sad that this isn't on the list. Travesty really. #books
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    Image of Kermi Kermi
    10/24/09

    @Zidel333: Quoted for absolute truth. Admittedly, I haven't read any of the new Dune novels, but I have my reason: Kevin J. Anderson is a menace. His contributions to science fiction literature are criminal. #books
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    Image of njesto njesto
    10/24/09

    In reply to 12 Unfinished SF Novels We Wish We Could Read
    David Gerrold's "Chtorr" series!
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    10/24/09

    @njesto: Never. Gonna . Happen. #books
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