From: noone@nowhere.com   
      
   On 23/10/25 07:52, Michael F. Stemper wrote:   
   > On 21/10/2025 11.09, Christian Weisgerber wrote:   
   >> 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?   
   >>   
   >> I would settle for an outline of where Gerrold wanted the story to   
   >> go... assuming he knew himself, which I have increasingly come to   
   >> doubt.   
   >   
   > Ditto me for Peake's seven (?) never-written volumes of the Titus   
   > works. I mean, if it was known to be seven, he must have had a pretty   
   > solid outline.   
      
   I hadn't heard that there were seven. In the introduction in Book four,   
   Titus Awakes, it states:   
   "Peake began this fourth and final volume of the Gormenghast stories but   
   died having only written a few pages. Using notes and the fragments he   
   left behind...", it was written by his wife.   
   Of course, final volume might refer to written father than planned.   
      
   I haven't read Titus Awakes, (book 4), and don't how it fits in with   
   Titus Alone, (book 3), which I disliked intensely and did not   
   understand. Even after reading expert analysis and literary reviews   
   online, I still couldn't understand why the trilogy, (how I thought of   
   it then), would take such a weird swerve in many aspects, with one of   
   the main ones being the lack of richness of character and plot, and the   
   lack of character development, features of my favourites, Gormenghast,   
   (book 1), and Titus Groan, (book 2).   
      
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