So, it seems like the hip happening thing to do is keep making books in a series even after the author keels over.
Some notable examples include The gathering Storm (the 12th book in the Wheel of Time series), And Another Thing (part six of the trilogy), and at least a third of Tolkien's published work.
What do you all think of this? Should the series just die there, or is it better to keep the wheels turning?
For instance, when Robert Jordan died, the publisher announced that the last book in the series had been written BEFORE he keeled over, and only needed typographical editing before release. Four years later, another author has put out what was supposedly the last book and informs us that there will be two more books. The story goes that after writing the manuscript of the final novel (already proving the first announcement lies) it was determined to be "way too long" and split into three novels. In the same statement the new guy says he's halfway through writing the second book, failing to keep his new story straight, and proving that Mr. Jordan didn't have the stuff written, and that there are still major gaps that need to be filled by someone who may ruin everything.
That's my thought on the topic, does anyone else get paranoid about these sort of things?
Some notable examples include The gathering Storm (the 12th book in the Wheel of Time series), And Another Thing (part six of the trilogy), and at least a third of Tolkien's published work.
What do you all think of this? Should the series just die there, or is it better to keep the wheels turning?
For instance, when Robert Jordan died, the publisher announced that the last book in the series had been written BEFORE he keeled over, and only needed typographical editing before release. Four years later, another author has put out what was supposedly the last book and informs us that there will be two more books. The story goes that after writing the manuscript of the final novel (already proving the first announcement lies) it was determined to be "way too long" and split into three novels. In the same statement the new guy says he's halfway through writing the second book, failing to keep his new story straight, and proving that Mr. Jordan didn't have the stuff written, and that there are still major gaps that need to be filled by someone who may ruin everything.
That's my thought on the topic, does anyone else get paranoid about these sort of things?
