# Authors you wish would/could write another book **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 16, 2009, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/authors-you-wish-would-could-write-another-book/514001 "2009-10-16T05:58:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2009, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/authors-you-wish-would-could-write-another-book/514001/21 "2009-10-16T14:39:43Z")
From the “bring back from the dead” category: Kurt Vonnegut John Kennedy Toole ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2009, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/authors-you-wish-would-could-write-another-book/514001/22 "2009-10-16T14:40:52Z")
I heartily wish [Robert Anton Wilson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Anton_Wilson) had lived long enough to complete his [Historical Illuminatus Chronicles](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Historical_Illuminatus_Chronicles) (planned as a pentalogy; only three novels published). ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2009, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/authors-you-wish-would-could-write-another-book/514001/23 "2009-10-16T14:42:44Z")
both deceased: John Steinbeck, to finish _The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights_. Roger Zelazny, to wrap up some of the loose ends in the Amber series. (The ending of that last book was kind of rushed.) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2009, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/authors-you-wish-would-could-write-another-book/514001/24 "2009-10-16T14:43:33Z")
I wish Terry Pratchett didn’t have Alzheimer’s. Not that it’s going to stop him from writing (his [latest Discworld novel](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unseen_Academicals) just came out), but it’s bound to slow/reduce his output. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2009, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/authors-you-wish-would-could-write-another-book/514001/25 "2009-10-16T15:18:41Z")
Ken Grimwood, to complete his sequel to **Replay**. Tom Reamy. **Blind Voices** was a terrific book (even if he didn’t quite finish polishing it) and his short story output showed him to be one of the best emerging SF talents of his time. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2009, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/authors-you-wish-would-could-write-another-book/514001/26 "2009-10-16T15:22:14Z")
> [@raspberry\_hunter](#): > > I want to know what happened to Scout when she grew up! She turned into Harper Lee, duh! ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2009, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/authors-you-wish-would-could-write-another-book/514001/27 "2009-10-16T15:31:02Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > I’d like Heinlein only if he could go back to writing juveniles - or at least the adult (in the sense of “for grown-ups”) novels he wrote in the late '50s. Man, his last half-dozen or so sucked major. Still better than 95% of everything else in the field, though. Second this. And I’d add H. Beam Piper, who committed suicide without realizing that he had just sold several works (other personal problems may have contributed to his decision). I would love to have seen what else he might have produced. ---
**Author:** ![cdsilv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cdsilv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cdsilv)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2009, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/authors-you-wish-would-could-write-another-book/514001/28 "2009-10-16T15:32:35Z")
Douglas Adams Rudyard Kipling George Washington Harris Terry Pratchett - more discworld please…we need to find a cure for Alzheimers! A. Conan Doyle Mark Twain Larry Niven ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2009, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/authors-you-wish-would-could-write-another-book/514001/29 "2009-10-16T15:42:41Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > George R.R. Martin. > George R.R. Martin. > George R.R. fucking Martin, damn it. You beat me to the punch. ---
**Author:** ![runcible\_spoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc29f/32.png) [@runcible\_spoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/runcible_spoon)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2009, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/authors-you-wish-would-could-write-another-book/514001/30 "2009-10-16T16:07:45Z")
> [@UncleRojelio](#): > > Patrick O’Brian Aye. Also, in the realm of the living, but goddamn slow: Martha Wells (at least she finished her last series, but still) Iain M. Banks (because I’m going through the Culture at a terrible rate) George RR Martin David Brin ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2009, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/authors-you-wish-would-could-write-another-book/514001/31 "2009-10-16T17:44:23Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Tom Reamy. **Blind Voices** was a terrific book (even if he didn’t quite finish polishing it) and his short story output showed him to be one of the best emerging SF talents of his time. That’s who I came in to mention. Also Charles Dickinson. He wrote a charming time travel novel – _A Shortcut in Time_ – it begs for a sequel and he’s written one but his publisher isn’t interested. I’d buy more Civil War mysteries if Owen Parry would write them, but apparently he’s said all he has to say about crime-solving dwarfs in the 19th century. I’d also read more from John Morressy, particularly the Kedrigern wizard tales. ---
**Author:** ![misling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@misling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misling)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2009, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/authors-you-wish-would-could-write-another-book/514001/32 "2009-10-16T17:54:53Z")
I’m sure I’ll think of more as soon as I post this, but: Barry Hughart. ---
**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2009, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/authors-you-wish-would-could-write-another-book/514001/33 "2009-10-16T17:56:49Z")
Seconds to Douglas Adams and George R. R. Martin. But I’ll go ahead and be the first to say **Robert Jordan** also **J.R.R. Tolkien** I might get stoned by Tolkein purists for saying this but, all the stuff his son put together is impressive and all, but I’d rather have some more actual long-form novels like LOTR (whether on Middle Earth or not.) ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2009, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/authors-you-wish-would-could-write-another-book/514001/34 "2009-10-16T18:00:12Z")
I’m almost tempted to say Spider Robinson. His earlier stuff in the _Callahan_ series is great. The recent stuff in that series, not so much. Last one I read was just horrible. Killed off a major character for no apparrent reason, has a virtual zoo full of animals that talk, and the puns weren’t particularly sharp. ---
**Author:** ![Terraplane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@Terraplane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terraplane)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2009, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/authors-you-wish-would-could-write-another-book/514001/35 "2009-10-16T18:36:06Z")
> [@UncleRojelio](#): > > Patrick O’Brian Same. 20 books of Aubrey/Maturin isn’t nearly enough. ---
**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2009, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/authors-you-wish-would-could-write-another-book/514001/36 "2009-10-16T19:42:20Z")
> [@Critical1](#): > > Frank Herbert, to both write more and kick some asses of certain people writing more from his universe Oh yeah, that’s another one! Oh, and I dunno if this counts, but I wish **William Messner-Loebs** and **Sam Kieth** would team up again. I just read _Epicurus the Sage_ for the first time, and it brought back such great memories of when I first discovered _The Maxx_. I do enjoy Kieth’s more recent solo stuff, but those two together were really a great team. ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2009, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/authors-you-wish-would-could-write-another-book/514001/37 "2009-10-16T19:48:48Z")
Everyone else has already said it, but I’m going to chime in anyway. I want some more of Douglas Adams’ Dirk Gently. ---
**Author:** ![TheBoltEater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@TheBoltEater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheBoltEater)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2009, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/authors-you-wish-would-could-write-another-book/514001/38 "2009-10-16T19:58:22Z")
> [@omgzebras](#): > > Same. 20 books of Aubrey/Maturin isn’t nearly enough. Thirded (or fourthed? I forget). The only series I’ve ever read where I found myself (by about book 9 or 10) actively attempting to slow my own reading down, cause I so badly didn’t want to reach the end. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2009, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/authors-you-wish-would-could-write-another-book/514001/39 "2009-10-16T20:10:05Z")
Dorothy L. Sayers. I could read some more of her Peter Wimsey stories. ---
**Author:** ![Phatlewt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a698b9/32.png) [@Phatlewt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phatlewt)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2009, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/authors-you-wish-would-could-write-another-book/514001/40 "2009-10-16T20:17:33Z")
Orson Scott Card’s “[The Tales of Alvin Maker](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tales_of_Alvin_Maker).” A seven book series with six books. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/authors-you-wish-would-could-write-another-book/514001.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/authors-you-wish-would-could-write-another-book/514001.md?page=3)