Ever come across a series that never finished?

Clansman said:
You mean, they have an obligation to do the work of writing a novel and give it away? They should work for free?

Bollocks. There is no contract between an author and readers to finish a series.

If you like a series, buy it when it is new, and get as many people you know to also buy it. If enough copies sell, the series gets continued. If a lot of books sell, then the publisher gives it more marketing dollars. The mill that created the book (i.e. the author) needs the raw materials (i.e. money) to complete a series.

Hard to write a book when your time is spent working your butt off in the local factory to feed your family.
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I didn't say for free, did I?
 
I'm still waiting on the Amtrack Wars by Patrick Tilley - I loved those books. Don't know if I would still enjoy them as much, it's been so long, but the series just stopped in mid-stride as I recall. Hopefully he'll come back to it one day.
 
Can't believe no-one mentioned Wheel of Time - okay so its being finished, but not by the original author.
 
I think death can be considered an adequate excuse, or any one of a number of disabling illnesses that prevent the author writing at all.

But when (s)he goes on producing other works, leaving an unfinished work, that is pretty unpleasant to the readers; and would be grounds for me to cease reading the particular writer.

I am talking, evidently, of a story in multiple episodes, not a freestanding book and sequels.
 
thatollie said:
The Dark Tower by Stephen King doesn't end, according to some people.
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You are right for a couple of reasons, one is because is actually adding a book(probably more) to the series and two, SPOILER!!!!!! because the end is just the beginning. I actually loved how it "ended".;)
 
Barbara Hambly Rainbow Abyss trilogy. Not her greatest but I'd have liked to have read the third book. By the end of the second she had a lot set up that could have made for a cracking finale.
 
Perpetual Man said:
Good call Clansman, yeah she has written other stuff, but when questioned on her website about the Ruins of Ambrai she basically said that she wasn't going to finish, giving no reason other than that.
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Maybe because it wasn't very good?

I also like her first two series but found the first book of exiles dull, and the second duller and depressing to boot.
 
Mark_Lawrence said:
I'm still waiting on the Amtrack Wars by Patrick Tilley - I loved those books. Don't know if I would still enjoy them as much, it's been so long, but the series just stopped in mid-stride as I recall. Hopefully he'll come back to it one day.
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Been waiting for the continuation of this series for a long time
 
John Ringo’s “Aldenata“ series? Military SF, don’t know if people look down on that kind of thing here. He has co-written most of the volumes published so far and seems to have a bunch of superfans who hang out with him.
 
Clansman said:
Doesn't Melanie Rawn have a long-outstanding novel for her Exiles series? The trilogy is Ruins of Ambrai, The Mageborn Traitor, and the unwritten finale is Captal's Tower, but Mageborn Traitor was published in 1997.

Doesn't seem like Rawn is terribly interested in finishing the Exiles story. Has she written much else since? I enjoyed the Dragon Prince and Dragon Star trilogies in the early 1990s.
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Apparently she had a mental breakdown or something like that. She has written other stuff after a long rest period (Glass Thorns series), and says (via some internet interview a few years ago that I can't find anymore) write Mageborn Traitor eventually (but I'm not really holding my breath on that one).
 
I suppose it's possible that Scott Lynch might finish the Gentleman ******* series of fantasy novels, but ill-health stopped the series a while ago and I don't know whether, if he was better, Lynch would want to write the remaining novels.
 
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