# Abandoned book series you wish would get finished **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 12, 2007, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-book-series-you-wish-would-get-finished/395628 "2007-03-12T17:24:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2007, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-book-series-you-wish-would-get-finished/395628/41 "2007-03-13T04:43:03Z")
I’d like to see the Hardy Boys book that shows Frank going to college and getting a girl pregnant and Joe picking up a meth habit. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2007, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-book-series-you-wish-would-get-finished/395628/42 "2007-03-13T07:15:24Z")
[QUOTE=lizardling] I’m not sure if it counts as truly abandoned, but – Diane Duane’s Door series. There was a blurb years ago that the final book, Door into Starlight, would be published as part of an omnibus in 2004 or so. It’s 2007. ☹ [/QUOTE] I’d really like to see that last book too. There’s quite a few books that I’d like to see come out, but most of them are not actually necessary for the series. I just like some worlds and settings, and would like to see more stories in them. ---
**Author:** ![Schuyler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/54ee81/32.png) [@Schuyler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schuyler)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2007, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-book-series-you-wish-would-get-finished/395628/43 "2007-03-13T07:15:46Z")
I don’t get into series unless I know they are finished (LOTR) or don’t care how many I read (Kinsey Milhone mysteries), but one that I was hoping to see a sequel to was Architect of Sleep by Steven R. Boyett. He get’s so much flak about “when are you going to finish” that he has a lengthy part of his website dedicated to answering it –\> [here](http://www.steveboy.com/archetyp.html). From there: > [@](#): > > … the novel still worries at me like a pebble in my shoe. Trust me, I didn’t invest years of my life because I wanted to abandon the books midstream. … > > The current plan is to finish Eloi and then return to Architect. But I say this knowing that “life is what happens while you’re making other plans.” … > > …If it bothers you they aren’t finished, that you can’t find them (or any of my other work, thanks so much for the reminder) anywhere—well, think of what that’s like on this end of the keyboard. (I think part of the fascination with that book is reading his description of the publishing process, and the aftermath for why there was no immediate sequel.) ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2007, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-book-series-you-wish-would-get-finished/395628/44 "2007-03-13T07:34:44Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] [Paint Your Wagon mode]Is…he…dead?[/PYW] [/QUOTE] That’s from Mark Twain, “The Innocents Abroad”. **Yookeroo** - I agree 100%. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2007, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-book-series-you-wish-would-get-finished/395628/45 "2007-03-13T11:40:47Z")
I’m waiting for Clive Barker to write the third Book of the Art. After \*The Great and Secret Show \* and _Everville_ there was supposed to be a third. I’m still waiting! ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2007, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-book-series-you-wish-would-get-finished/395628/46 "2007-03-13T13:27:13Z")
Mark Frost’s _The List of Seven_ was a truly ripping yarn. In it, we meet a young Doctor, A. Conan Doyle. With his small practice, he has time to write & investigate the occult. After a seance that goes horribly wrong, he becomes drawn into a fiendish plot that extends to the hightest reaches of British Society–& beyond. And he assists Jack Sparks, Special Agent to the Crown–a brilliant investigator with several “quirks” & a dark past. After the thrilling & chilling adventure concludes, Young Doctor Doyle marries & settles into a quiet practice. Then, he begins a series of stories about a Great Detective–based upon the unforgettable Jack Sparks. I really loved this book & snatched up _The 6 Messiahs_ the minute it was released. It was an initial disappointment–not as excellent as I’d hoped. On later re-reading, it rose in my estimation. Frost did not _say_ he was beginning a series–but it certainly seemed likely. Perhaps the second book didn’t sell? But–there are at least 5 stories still out there. Full of derring do & wild adventure. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2007, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-book-series-you-wish-would-get-finished/395628/47 "2007-03-13T14:42:14Z")
I am deeply disappointed that death forced James Herriott to abandon his country vet books. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2007, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-book-series-you-wish-would-get-finished/395628/48 "2007-03-13T14:48:58Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] Personally, every time I see Jerry Pournelle I want to punch him because he won’t finish, or allow to be finished, the **Janissarries** books. They just…stop. [/QUOTE] That’s the one I came in to note, as well. Although he is supposedly working on [Janissaries IV](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janissaries_IV:_Mamelukes). I’ll believe it when I see it. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2007, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-book-series-you-wish-would-get-finished/395628/49 "2007-03-13T14:51:07Z")
Ed McBain’s final 87th Precient mysery was suppose to be EXIT, but he died before writing it ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2007, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-book-series-you-wish-would-get-finished/395628/50 "2007-03-13T15:29:06Z")
[QUOTE=Wendell Wagner] Johanna, there were three books in the series: _The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles, Volume One: The Earth Will Shake_ _The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles, Volume Two: The Widow’s Son_ _The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles, Volume Three: Nature’s God_ [/QUOTE] That was it, thanks! Was the series actually completed with the third book? ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2007, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-book-series-you-wish-would-get-finished/395628/51 "2007-03-13T16:01:10Z")
Lyda Morehouse’s apocalypse books. There’s 4 of them out: Archangel Protocol Fallen Host Messiah Node Apocalypse Array She had planned to write more, but they didn’t do as well as hoped so they were all remaindered. I need to buy the other three. Quite interesting though. Kinda cyberpunk meets archangels and the apocalypse. Lucifer, Uriel, Michael and Gabriel make appearances throughout the books and it’s not all based around one religion. Even the angels are of different religions and use whatever pronouns are appropriate at the time to describe God(dess). I wanted to see what the new Messiah would do, but unfortunately there was only one book actually about her (the first is more about the world and her conception, the last is when she’s a teen and just discovering her path. The ones between are about various things, like Lucifer or the AI’s). ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2007, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-book-series-you-wish-would-get-finished/395628/52 "2007-03-13T17:01:09Z")
[QUOTE=Yookeroo] “Ancient China that never was” series by Barry Hughart. [/QUOTE] Ah, but all the other volumes of _The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox_ were destroyed to prevent them from spreading corruption, if you’ll recall. 😉 I’d love to see more of the _Chronicles_ too, but only if Hughart could maintain the quality of the first three books. Fortunately, each book is self-contained. At least we have closure. ---
**Author:** ![Fetchund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b2d939/32.png) [@Fetchund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fetchund)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2007, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-book-series-you-wish-would-get-finished/395628/53 "2007-03-13T17:22:06Z")
[QUOTE=lizardling] I’m not sure if it counts as truly abandoned, but – Diane Duane’s Door series. There was a blurb years ago that the final book, Door into Starlight, would be published as part of an omnibus in 2004 or so. It’s 2007. ☹ [/QUOTE] This series is the reason I will no longer start reading a series until all books are available. I’m a bit behind on my reading, but I’m not going nuts waiting between books! ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-book-series-you-wish-would-get-finished/395628/54 "2007-03-14T02:09:57Z")
Johanna, I haven’t read the books, so I don’t know. ---
**Author:** ![jkusters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/fbc32d/32.png) [@jkusters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jkusters)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-book-series-you-wish-would-get-finished/395628/55 "2007-03-14T02:37:35Z")
I’m still waiting for the next book in the _The Journeys of McGill Feighan_ by Kevin O’Donnell Jr. Though I note that work on book 5 has been “in progress” for a couple of years now. JOhn. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-book-series-you-wish-would-get-finished/395628/56 "2007-03-14T02:44:23Z")
Hell, I’m still waiting for Jack Pearl to write book # 3 of the **Space Eagle** series. You know, the one with Space Warp Infinity Finity Transport (aka S.W.I.F.T.) Anybody else ever read those? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![hlanelee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3bc359/32.png) [@hlanelee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hlanelee)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-book-series-you-wish-would-get-finished/395628/57 "2007-03-14T02:44:38Z")
I want to know how **Harry Flashman** served on both sides of the American Civil War. ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-book-series-you-wish-would-get-finished/395628/58 "2007-03-14T07:40:12Z")
Fourth (or howevermany it may be) for the Chtorr series AND the sequet to Threshold, dammit. Let me also add the McGill Feighan series by Kevin O’Donnell, Jr. Four books in, with a fascinating premise, and the last one, Cliffs, is now 21 years back. He’s announced the title for his fifth book, Plains, on his website, but it hasn’t been updated for more than two years. Had a chance to meet him at Westercon back in 1990, and was much impressed. He’s a class act. Hope all is well with him… ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-book-series-you-wish-would-get-finished/395628/59 "2007-03-14T11:35:09Z")
The **Bannerman** series by John R. Maxim. _Bannerman’s Prophecy_ was supposed to come out a few years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Atrael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Atrael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atrael)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2007, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-book-series-you-wish-would-get-finished/395628/60 "2007-03-14T14:19:56Z")
[QUOTE=jkusters] I’m still waiting for the next book in the _The Journeys of McGill Feighan_ by Kevin O’Donnell Jr. Though I note that work on book 5 has been “in progress” for a couple of years now. JOhn. [/QUOTE] Huh…it’s been a long time since I read that series, but I had sort of gotten the idea that it kinda wrapped up at the end of the fourth book. With him saving the great whatever the hell from the bird plauge. Seemed like a natural sort of open ending that type of series would have. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-book-series-you-wish-would-get-finished/395628.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-book-series-you-wish-would-get-finished/395628.md?page=4)