Yes, please. I don’t particularly care about the characters anymore, but occasionally I’d just like the story to be finished so I can not think about them anymore. (not that I think about them all the time or anything. Or even regularly. Just occasionally - once or twice a year, if that.)
That’s what occurred to me. I know, though, that Stasheff said in an interview that he wrote the first three entirely on spec to see if there was interest. My guess is that sales numbers weren’t quite what he’d hoped and no one wants to pick up the series.
Threshold, by David Palmer. It was supposed to be the start of a trilogy, but the other two books never materialized.
That’s the one I was going to say.
Has Palmer written anything in the last 10 years?
No, Threshold was the last, 22 years ago. I have a long memory.
[Paint Your Wagon mode]Is…he…dead?[/PYW]
Well, he is trying. He promised to wrap it up in one more volume, even if it’s huuuuuuuuuge! And he is fighting a terminal chronic illness.
Given how he picked up the pace in the last volume, I’ll cut him a little slack.
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. 
Definitely another vote for the War Against The Chtorr. Although I could do without the psychosexual mindfucks Gerrold throws in every now and then.
John DiFool writes:
> I will point out that the aphorism “Be careful what you wish for” holds true
> here: Exhibit A is the hurried and awkward conclusion to the Dark Tower series
> by Stephen King, who only took up the gauntlet again after almost 20 years
> and zillions of fanmail bugging him to do so.
Excuse me, but what are you talking about? Here’s a complete list of all the books in the Dark Tower series:
The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born (2007)
The Little Sisters of Eluria (1998)
The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger (1982)
The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three (1987)
The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands (1991)
The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass (1997)
The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla (2003)
The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah (2004)
The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower (2004)
King didn’t take off 20 years between books.
Yeah, I’d like to see both of those, particularly the Troupers series, continued.
My addition: Rosemary Edghill’s Twelve Treasures series. She got three written and then nothing. Where are the other Treasures, dang it?
I’d also like Elyse Guttenberg to write and publish the sequels to Sunder, Eclipse, and Seed. And Melanie Rawn to finish off her Exiles series. And someone to find Zelazny’s notes for his implied sequel to the Changeling and Madwand books. And for Glen Cook to write a few more books in the Starfisher’s universe, and definitely some more Garrett books, and a collection of his short stories would be nice, too. And I also think it would be nice if someone had sense enough to buy more books from Barry Hughart; I want to hear more about Master Li and Number Ten Ox.
I have a purt near incureable desire to know “but what happens next?”
I whine about this in every thread like this, but I’ll do it again. I’m convinced by this point Kate Elliott’s Jaran series will never be finished. There were nine books planned and three got published (technically there are four books released, but two and three were originally to be one book). She abandoned it in the mid-90s to work on a seven book fantasy series. I was so excited when she said she turned the final book in to the editor, and then she announced she was working on a new series. I understand that one of the reasons it was abandoned was because there wasn’t enough interest, but still.
After the last one I’m not sure I want to read anymore, there’s better soft-core porn around. I don’t really need to hear anymore about Jondalar’s huge manhood and Ayla’s ability to take it to the hilt.
Robert Jordan could save a lot of time and space in his series if he’d stop describing dresses in great detail and have the women stop smoothing said dresses and tugging on their braids constantly. And stop adding 20 new characters every book that have names that sound like 20 other characters!
No … I’m not bitter. :dubious:
Robert Anton Wilson had started a fascinating little series, I read the first two books, not sure if a third ever made it out… it was set during the American Revolution and included Cagliostro as well as George Washington. The books were hard to find to begin with, and then he just seemed to have dropped the idea. I really wanted to know how it turned out. Well, he had satirized James Joyce dictating his new novels from the afterlife to mediums who assumed they had flipped out and quit transcribing, wouldn’t that be a funny fate for Wilson now…
Auel should have admitted she was out of ideas and wrapped up the series at the ends of Plains of Passage. She had enough inspiration for one great idea for a novel, and each sequel got a little thinner… what Rumi called “the soup of the soup of the soup…”
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
“Ancient China that never was” series by Barry Hughart.
Number Six just contains the full names and bloodlines for all the characters in Number 7. 
I’m patiently waiting for Diana Gabaldon to finish up Outlander. From what I’ve heard, there’s 2 more books to go. I know she’s working on other projects including a modern day mystery, but for the love of God please, please, please get back to Jamie and Claire as soon as possible!
THere was a series of books called “Firebrats” that came out in the late 80’s about two American teens who survived a nuclear war in the United States. I have no idea who wrote it, what the individual titles of the books were, or if they ever finished the series, but it was a series I remember wanting to finish back when I was still in middle school. Anyone ever hear of it?
Marc
Koontz’ Frankenstien
The Traveler
There are perhaps a few more, but I can’t think of them.