# We're never going to see these books, are we? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** books-writing-myths\ **Created:** [October 16, 2019, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-never-going-to-see-these-books-are-we/841830 "2019-10-16T04:29:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 117
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> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > S.M. Stirling released _The Sky People_ in 2006 and _In the Courts of the Crimson Kings_ in 2008. And then he moved on to other series. Some of which went on far too long IMHO. ‘Dies the fire’ was a good start, but he dragged it out and morphed it from mostly SF to mostly fantasy… the last few books were pretty meh… I’m wondering if Jim Butcher is really ever going to write another Harry Dresden episode? He seems to have written himself into an impasse. Harry used to have a sort of everyman relatability, but in the last couple of books he has rather become transformed into a semi-supernatural being? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-never-going-to-see-these-books-are-we/841830)._