From: robertaw@drizzle.com
In article ,
ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan ) wrote:
> In article ,
> Robert Woodward wrote:
> >In article <10kuahc$3c8ij$1@dont-email.me>, BCFD 36
> >wrote:
> >
> >> As I have mentioned before, I listen to novels via Audible when I am on
> >> my (somewhat) daily walks or doing my job as an organlegger. I saw one
> >> by Dean Koontz that looked interesting and got it, "Fear Nothing"
> >> (1998). I liked it, although the writing style of the narrator I find to
> >> be a bit off-putting. The narrator is fond of lists that have too many
> >> entries and goes off on too much expository (I think that might be the
> >> right word) prose at times, but I like the story overall. It does make
> >> the miles go by faster, both walking and driving.
> >>
> >> The next book in the series is "Seize the Night" (1999) and I downloaded
> >> that one and it too was good.
> >>
> >> I didn't realize the books had been published that far back, but that
> >> was not really an issue. I went to get the next in the series, "Ride the
> >> Storm) and IT HASN'T BEEN FINISHED YET! Or maybe even started!
> >>
> >> Who does he think he is, George R.R. Martin? I need closure, damn it!
> >
> >I might form a list of unfinished series. The current leader is the
> >Anthony Villiers series by Alexei Panshin. Three books (of 8? promised)
> >published in 1968-1969, 4th promised at the end of the 3rd. No more
> >books appeared and Panshin died over 3 years ago.
> >
>
> Depending on what you mean by "leader", I would say Burroughs
> _Beyond the Farthest Star_ series might top that.
I must confess that I wasn't going to include authors who died before I
was born in my list.
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"We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_.
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