# 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:** 8\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-book-series-you-wish-would-get-finished/395628/101 "2007-03-17T03:46:39Z")
[QUOTE=jkusters] I seem to recall that the whole “why” of the gastropod thing that kicked it all off had yet to be fully resolved, but it’s been years since I read them. I just remember that there were to my mind some big questions that had yet to be answered. JOhn. [/QUOTE] That’s exactly right. Who is the Far Being and why is is interested in this earth lad? What did happen with the gastropod? What’s a Flinger to do? I’m really flummoxed because he told me that fifth book is written (has been for over a decade) and goes unpublished. GRR ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-book-series-you-wish-would-get-finished/395628/102 "2007-03-18T01:15:28Z")
[QUOTE=Sleel] Nope, he’s [dead](http://www.slovotskys-laws.com/index.php?n=Articles.2006JUN23). Dead dead. All the way dead. Not coming back. No do-overs. Itty-bitty pieces of Karl are all over the beach at Melawei. The Warrior does not live. [/QUOTE] I know that and you know that, but the slavers guild sure as hell doesn’t know that 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Full_Metal_Lotus)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-book-series-you-wish-would-get-finished/395628/103 "2007-03-18T08:41:24Z")
And just WHEN Douglas Adams gonna come out with a 6th book in the HHGTG increasingly inaccurate “trilogy”? Oh sure, some people say he died, but it probably just for tax reasons! regards FML ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-book-series-you-wish-would-get-finished/395628/104 "2007-03-18T14:37:23Z")
I’ll second the **Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon**. The series started off with a bang and has hit a few creative speedbumps along the way. but I wish she’d finish it just so I can know how Jamie and Claire’s story ends. I used to care about the Earth children series, but no longer care if Ayla or her bowling ball head son live or die. ---
**Author:** ![Nature\_s\_Call](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nature_s_call/32/19006_2.png) [@Nature\_s\_Call](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nature_s_Call)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-book-series-you-wish-would-get-finished/395628/105 "2007-03-18T15:07:05Z")
[QUOTE=Full Metal Lotus] And just WHEN Douglas Adams gonna come out with a 6th book in the HHGTG increasingly inaccurate “trilogy”? [/QUOTE] Never mind HHGTTG, I just want him (or his ghost) to complete “Salmon of Doubt” It was shaping up just nicely when Mr. Adams so rudely shuffled off his mortal coil. ---
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-book-series-you-wish-would-get-finished/395628/106 "2007-03-18T23:24:18Z")
[QUOTE=Lok] Lawrence Watt-Evans is the same. I wish his Ethshar stuff sold better so he could keep writing it. [/QUOTE] From what I hear, so does Lawrence Watt-Evans. To an extent where he is actually writing new Ethshar books and posting them online – see [here](http://www.ethshar.com/thevondishambassador.html) for the latest one. [QUOTE=Pazu] I’d also like to see Neil Gaiman finish his run on _Miracleman_. [/QUOTE] Oh, God, yes. I’d _love_ to read the rest of _The Silver Age_ and all of _The Dark Age_. ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-book-series-you-wish-would-get-finished/395628/107 "2007-03-19T01:24:54Z")
Man, I need to get around and check author websites more. I never heard about what LWE was doing with the Ethshar stuff. I would have been on that when it started. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-book-series-you-wish-would-get-finished/395628/108 "2007-03-19T04:36:07Z")
At one point, Patricia Kennealy-Morrison (The Keltiad) was going to write a trilogy about Gwydion, as a sequel to her trilogy about Aeron. Still waiting. Of course, she was also supposed to write a trilogy about Brendan, but the three proposed titles would up being one book instead of three. _wistful sigh_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abandoned-book-series-you-wish-would-get-finished/395628.md?page=5)