Ever come across a series that never finished?

[JunkMonkey]

It is, and since remembering it for this thread, I have been wanting to read it [Halo Jones] again. I've been unsuccessfully searching the house all day for either of the two copies I know we have... and found a third! Belongs to daughter Number One and is still shrink wrapped so I have as her permission before liberating it.

And two months later I found my copy!

The hot tap in one of the sinks in the kitchen has been leaking for a while and I have been meaning to fix the damn thing for weeks. I finally got round to it tonight. To turn off the hot water to the kitchen I have to lift a hatch in the floor at the other end of the building in the living room. Since the last time I'd lifted that hatch I'd managed to put a book case on top of it. So I had to move that first. The Ballad of Halo Jones was not on the bookcase. It was in the stack of books behind the bookcase.

I really need to get a grip...

 

[Provincial]

And had you read your daughter's copy by then?

 

[Danny McG]

I suppose we should include Sue Grafton and her Alphabet Crime series - she got all through the alphabet but unfortunately popped her clogs at 'Y'

 

[Toby Frost]

Sorry.

 

[Danny McG]

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Sorry.

One of the things I really wish I'd thought of to say, well done sir

 

[BAYLOR]

We are still waiting for the rest of G RR Martin's As Song of Ice and Fire.
Patrick Rothfuss's King Killer Chronicles.

With regard to George R Martin , nothing definitive but he does say that he will have the next book out before the end of this century, give or take.

 

[Fiberglass Cyborg]

The "Hunted Earth" trilogy by Roger McBride Allen.

The first book, "The Ring of Charon" (1990) is an absolute beast of a high-concept space opera. Gravity experiments on Pluto's moon accidentally trigger long-dormant alien biomachinery that snatches Earth away through a wormhole and starts messily disassembling the rest of the inhabited Solar System to make a Dyson sphere. A second book, "The Shattered Sphere" came out 4 years later but I've never read it as I don't think it was ever published in Britain. The third book never appeared. Allen is still alive and published several novels after abandoning this series, but seems to have retired now.

 

[Fiberglass Cyborg]

The unwritten works of Sir Terry Pratchett.
There were lists of what he planned to do next. But "next" never arrived.
Even his last "finished" Discworld book The Shepherd's Crown feels unfinished.

I found it interesting, but couldn't bear to finish reading it. According to the editors note, this was the "plot" draft before he'd have started working up all the jokes.