I’m not saying that’s not a valid topic. But I think it’s distinct enough it should get a separate thread.
Making a movie is a collective work. It takes hundreds of people to do it and it costs millions of dollars. So when a movie doesn’t get made there can be a vast number of different factors involved.
But a book is pretty much a one person project. When a book doesn’t get written, we can focus on why the author didn’t write it.
I must say Douglas Adams has been slacking a bit on Salmon of Doubt. What’s the zarking hold up?
Iain M Banks would definitely have written more books on The Culture, amongst other things, if he hadn’t died at the age of 59.
I understand that Anne McCaffrey was working on a final tie up to the Dragonriders of Pern series, provisionally titled “After the Fall is Over”.
I would like to see that, even though I got fed up with the series after the introduction of modern technology.
I have been waiting for this sequel since I was about 10 years old. Come on Mel Brooks what the fuck is taking you so long?!?!
I’ve been reading random internet blurbs for years that talk about how Butcher is hard at work writing Peace Talks only to watch him publish another book (I’m not interested in) so you’re going to have to forgive me if I have lost the faith.
I mean you can’t just turn Butters into a Jedi Knight of the Holy Sword and then just…stop. That’s like touching me in the morning and then just walking away…
On a double bill with "Buckaroo Banzai versus the World Crime League.
I tend to doubt we’ll ever see the rest of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Caterbury Tales.
IIRC, the afterword to Spēcial Education indicated that Palmer had lost his original outline for the trilogy, so when he finally wrote book 2 he ended up finishing the story off there, without any need for a book 3. In other words, it’s now a duology, not a trilogy.
Naah, that’d be too easy.
I mean it’s top of mind for everyone: we’re all just waiting to see the promised Buckaroo Banzai sequel, Remo Williams: The Adventure Continues, and *Leonard Parts I, II, III, IV and V.
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And virtually NO ONE has forgotten that “In the Next Episode…” teaser in Kung Pow: Enter the Fist, or the “We’ll Be Back” freeze-frame at the end of Mac and Me!
To say nothing of Doctor Detroit II: The Revenge of Mom.
I think I can say with confidence that virtually nobody is waiting to see those.
James Douglass’s excellent JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters was published in 2008.
I saw him speak in 2010, and he mentioned that he was writing, or intended to write, a similar treatment of other assassinations; at the time, he stated he was working on a book about the RFK assassination.
In 2012, Gandhi and the Unspeakable: His Final Experiment with Truth was published.
I already know about the “hidden in plain sight” bogus official narrative and cover-up of RFK’s assassination-- Lisa Pease’s A Lie Too Big to Fail is a cogent exposé-- but I wish Douglass had done the RFK book before Gandhi. It took him 12 years to write the JFK book, and he’s not getting any younger, but I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
Just yesterday, the Wall Street Journal published an article (behind a paywall) that touched on this subject. Matt Salinger says he’s still working on transcribing some of his father’s work, but it will be five to seven years before anything is published. He gave no details about what sort of work(s) would be published.
Really? Where can I find them?
Two I can think of offhand are Snooks North and South and Snooks The Presidents’ Man, both by Peter Brian.
I’d be very interested in seeing The Captal’s Tower. My (fuzzy) recollection is that McKinley was in a bad place in her life that interfered or prevented her writing it when she originally intended to.
I was always hoping that Barry Hughart would write more books about the adventures of Master Li and Number Ten Ox, but now that he’s died I’m guessing that won’t ever happen.
I’m still hoping for the following:
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[li]That Patricia Kennealy-Morrison will finish out her Keltiad series, even if it’s self-published. I google from time to time, but no word on it.[/li][li]That James Hetley will finish out his Summer Country/Winter Oak series. The Winter Oak ends on a cliffhanger, damnit.[/li][li]That Lilith Saintcrow would consider writing a sequel to The Demon’s Librarian. Apparently she always intended this for a standalone, but dangit, there’s so much room for more in it and yes, I’m greedy. The concept was interesting and I really liked the characters. [/li][li]That Illona Andrews would consider a full-length novel or two in the world of the Kinsmen, although I admit thinking it might be set in the future of her Hidden Legacy books.[/li][li]Also Illona Andrews, novels set in the world of Alphas: Origins. Their short story for that collection was amazing. Apparently they felt it was too dark and scary, though, and most of their readers didn’t like it so it’s unlikely.[/li][li]That Diane Duane would continue her Raetian Tales series. She obviously intends more, but only the first has appeared.[/li]That Mercedes Lackey would write more books in the Hunter universe. In this case, the publisher didn’t want more, which just goes to show that some people are bloody idiots.[/ul]
Henry Darger’s The Story of the Vivian Girls, in what is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion, 15,000 pages, unfinished, unpublished aside from exerpts and supposedly unread - those who tried found it heavy sledding indeed.
well, since I don’t have cable and am waiting patiently for season 8 to be available on disk (even though the least offended comments were that it was ‘disappointing’) I would say longer than five months, thank you vary much.
‘Rosebud’ you’re pretty safe.
Can’t speak for later volumes but Peace Talks is apparently done now.
Supposed to be out in the spring.