From: robertaw@drizzle.com   
      
   In article <10ddkpc$1tdte$1@dont-email.me>,   
    Thomas Koenig  wrote:   
      
   > Dimensional Traveler  schrieb:   
   > > On 10/22/2025 3:29 PM, WolfFan wrote:   
   > >> On Oct 22, 2025, Thomas Koenig wrote   
   > >> (in article <10daujp$o013$1@dont-email.me>):   
   > >>   
   > >>> Christian Weisgerber  schrieb:   
   > >>>> On 2025-10-20, Lynn McGuire  wrote:   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>>> Chtorr books 5, 6, and 7 by David Gerrold. I remain convinced that   
   > >>>>> these books will be published by his son when Gerrold passes away.   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> That would require for those books to have been written. Do we have   
   > >>>> any reason to believe that this is actually the case?   
   > >>>   
   > >>> Not necessarily. Some people (names escape me at the moment) may   
   > >>> have published works that were alledegly written by their parents   
   > >>> and found in the attic. Increasing volumes of stuff found in the   
   > >>> attic made this assertion unlikely.   
   > >>>   
   > >>> (And I do _not_ mean Christopher Tolkien).   
   > >>   
   > >> Tom Clancy sure had a lot of outlines hanging around.   
   > >>   
   > > IIRC Clancy is/was one of those authors who wrote up outlines and then   
   > > farmed the actual book writing out.   
   >   
   > Reminds me of an anecdote I once read about Alexandre Dumas,   
   > who (allegedly) did the same.  When asked about a plot details   
   > in one of his numerous books, he answered evasively; when asked   
   > "But you wrote it, don't you remember", he answered "I wrote it,   
   > but I didn't read it".   
      
   I remember an occasion that Eric Flint had forgotten which painter he   
   had in a 1632 series short story he had written 2 years before. I also   
   remember an episode of "To Tell the Truth" (a 50s-60s television show   
   where 3 contestants all claimed to one person and the 4 panelists had to   
   determine the truth) where the contestant was John Creasy. One of the   
   panelist had read a good number of the hundreds of mysteries he had   
   written and she knew the detail better than he did.   
      
   --   
   "We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."   
   Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_.   
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