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Close enough Larry Send a noteboard - 22/09/2010 11:26:51 PM
You're just not cynical enough about all this

Personally, I rarely read multi-volumes these days, so I never think much about it. But then again, there was the Walter M. Miller, Jr. "sequel" to A Canticle for Leibowitz that came out about 40 years after the original...of course, Miller had to commit suicide first and then the family had to get Terry Bisson to finish it


I remember reading Bisson's article where he was talking to Miller's publishers about the book and Miller wanted another author to come in and finish it off. Everything was set and Bisson had received the extant MS pages just when Miller killed himself. Since Miller's last statement had been that he was happy for Bisson to finish the book, he went ahead and did it.

An odd affair, it has to be said. Of course, to play devil's advocate, the second Miller book is an unrelated narrative set during the timeline of the original novel rather than a much-promised continuation of an incomplete story


Of course, I could have made the point better if I noted the Slan "sequel" that was released a few years ago...by Kevin Anderson
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie

Je suis méchant.
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Because George R.R. Martin does everything but write these days... Tom - 22/09/2010 04:15:04 AM 2073 Views
I don't hate him. But, like you, I'm fed up with him. LiterateDog - 22/09/2010 04:47:31 AM 1108 Views
I'm pretty much in the same camp as you and Tom. everynametaken - 22/09/2010 06:17:53 AM 1216 Views
I'm beginning to agree. Ghavrel - 22/09/2010 09:55:07 AM 1107 Views
I do like Neil Gaiman's writing, though. *NM* Ghavrel - 22/09/2010 10:01:24 AM 474 Views
I can forgive you. *NM* Tom - 22/09/2010 02:08:46 PM 508 Views
Not only is he a writer, but he has really only one successful series. Tom - 23/09/2010 03:40:30 AM 1037 Views
Far more people watched B&B than have read ASoIaF. Werthead - 23/09/2010 07:01:22 PM 1217 Views
good point *NM* aragornital - 22/09/2010 08:07:16 AM 582 Views
Wait a minute... Larry - 22/09/2010 11:33:37 PM 1143 Views
I said I'm "growing" to hate him. I'm not ready to pay for his death yet. Tom - 23/09/2010 03:37:53 AM 1036 Views
bahahahahahahahahaha temeraire - 22/09/2010 06:10:26 AM 1128 Views
I was in an odd mood last night Tom - 23/09/2010 03:36:46 AM 983 Views
Hahaha Darth_Katie - 22/09/2010 01:24:17 PM 1112 Views
I'm not sure I'd be dictating chapters from my deathbed Tom - 23/09/2010 03:35:43 AM 1006 Views
I was thinking the same things a couple days ago Fox and Ravens - 22/09/2010 02:22:49 PM 1245 Views
I'm not sure Brandon Sanderson could finish the series, either. Tom - 23/09/2010 03:33:52 AM 1022 Views
Sadly, I would be satisfied with this. StormCrow - 23/09/2010 03:01:04 PM 1128 Views
If I was an author I wouldn't defend him. Tigr - 22/09/2010 03:35:17 PM 1108 Views
I agree but emphatically endorse use of the subjunctive "were". Tom - 23/09/2010 03:31:25 AM 979 Views
If I were to be grammatically correct, the world would stop spinning. *NM* Tigr - 23/09/2010 02:27:00 PM 515 Views
Martin is not the only one... ajah - 02/10/2010 08:16:51 AM 1103 Views
If he had only ever written stand-alone books... Gher - 22/09/2010 03:42:48 PM 1126 Views
There is more than an expectation. Tom - 23/09/2010 03:30:32 AM 1082 Views
I stopped caring so long ago I don't even remember much of what it's about. *NM* Macharius - 22/09/2010 04:21:52 PM 478 Views
Wolves and incest and a big wall of ice with barrow-wights on the other side. *NM* Tom - 23/09/2010 03:36:19 AM 474 Views
You know whenever the new book is ever released, it'll sell even more copies due to the wait, right? Larry - 22/09/2010 11:06:37 PM 1143 Views
Bisson was already working on it when Miller died, IIRC Werthead - 22/09/2010 11:17:50 PM 1111 Views
Close enough Larry - 22/09/2010 11:26:51 PM 1142 Views
There's a huge difference between Song of Ice and Fire and Miller's Leibowitz. Tom - 23/09/2010 03:28:31 AM 1031 Views
I know - I was just thinking about wait times for stories Larry - 23/09/2010 03:40:09 AM 968 Views
Not neccessarily. There are plenty of series that I started but didn't finish because I lost Tashmere - 24/09/2010 12:58:10 AM 978 Views
Don't mistake yourself for the average consumer Larry - 24/09/2010 04:03:57 AM 1236 Views
Re: Don't mistake yourself for the average consumer Werthead - 24/09/2010 08:55:29 AM 1120 Views
which is why I always rant - why review a book on your blog, but not Amazon? Aeryn - 25/09/2010 03:36:45 PM 1050 Views
That's why I always do. Werthead - 25/09/2010 04:51:49 PM 974 Views
Re: Mostly, because I don't buy from Amazon. *NM* Danae al'Thor - 26/09/2010 12:09:03 AM 501 Views
I don't plan to read it. nossy - 26/09/2010 03:28:02 PM 1226 Views
As I said in a previous response... Larry - 26/09/2010 11:15:13 PM 1012 Views
I only recently started reading the books fistofpainx - 23/09/2010 04:17:14 AM 1053 Views
Re: I only recently started reading the books Fox and Ravens - 23/09/2010 03:36:17 PM 1019 Views
Where's your evidence that Neil Gaiman thinks he's God? Tim - 23/09/2010 01:31:03 PM 1077 Views
Re: Nothing wrong with him if does have a high opinion of himself. *NM* Danae al'Thor - 26/09/2010 12:11:06 AM 448 Views
I'm always amused by these threads. Variant - 24/09/2010 08:22:54 AM 1061 Views
Re: I'm always amused by these threads. Fox and Ravens - 24/09/2010 02:42:27 PM 1139 Views
Truly, there's really no reason that you can't be both angry at him and planning to buy the book. Kotagg - 25/09/2010 12:46:03 AM 1059 Views
I never said it was hypocritical, just saying it's amusing. *NM* Variant - 25/09/2010 11:06:42 AM 472 Views
So y'all just bitching? Variant - 25/09/2010 10:31:23 AM 1060 Views
Re: I'm always amused by these threads. Werthead - 25/09/2010 05:04:56 PM 1009 Views
Re: This is funny beyond the telling. Danae al'Thor - 26/09/2010 12:07:40 AM 1019 Views
Re: Because George R.R. Martin does everything but write these days... Mossman - 02/10/2010 02:57:29 AM 959 Views
Here's the thing... ajah - 02/10/2010 08:23:14 AM 1397 Views
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