Five Stories That Make You Wish For a Sequel

[james_davis_nicoll]

Five Stories That Make You Wish For a Sequel

Comments

[maruad]

A drunken scholar with a slight flaw in his character and Ox feature in one of my all time favourite series of books. Alas, what could have been.

[maruad]

Number 10 Ox to be more precise.

[ba_munronoe]

Personally, I think the second and third books didn't live up to the first, so the lack of further volumes doesn't bug me too much. (Not that I wouldn't pay new-book prices if an actual sequel _did_ appear).

[maruad]

I agree the the next two books were not as brilliant as the first but really, how many books are that good. I also would buy the 4th book in a heartbeat.

[kate_schaefer]

When I saw the title of this review, I found myself muttering, Thurb, thurb, thurb. I have to assume that if you were going for six rather than than just five, Alexei Panshin's Villiers series would have been on your list. It's certainly on mine.

[filkerdave]

I would preorder another Steerswoman book, and I NEVER preorder

[dionysus1999]

Same here.

[ba_munronoe]

A sequel to "The Architect of Sleep" (guy finds himself in alternate universe inhabited by intelligent raccoons) was apparently mostly written by Boyett, but apparently he didn't like the way it turned out and consigned it to the drawer.

I'd like a sequel to Garfinkle's "Celestial Matters" (another fantasy-alternate history novel set in a world where both ancient Greek philosophy and Chinese alchemy correctly describe the physical world), or a book by him set in a similar "alternate physics" setting

Could had done with another "Tea with the Black Dragon" book or two.

Has "The Long way to a Small. Angry Planet" had any sequels yet?

[julian]

Not really *sequels*, per se, but Chambers has two more novels in the same universe. A Closed and Common Orbit and Record of a Spaceborn Few. (People call Record a sequel, but it's just intricately connected. IMO, etc.) There's also something (I think it's a novella?) coming out in 2021.

[gatunian]

Have you read Garfinkle's "All of an Instant"?

[lampwick]

Sadly, Michael Reaves has Parkinson's, and according to Wikipedia typing is difficult for him.

[(Anonymous)]

Frederick Delius could not physically write music in the last few years of his life. Fortunately, a young man volunteered to be his hands, and the music that resulted was among his best work.

The young man went on to a successful career in music and artillery.

William Hyde

[dormouse1953]

Back in the eighties I read the first two books in R.A. Lafferty's Coscuin Chronicles, The Flame is Green and Half a Sky. They were published by Corroboree Press, who advertised the next two books, which I was looking forward to, but it would appear that they went bust before publishing them. I don't even know if Lafferty ever wrote them.

[kgbooklog]

I'd like to see more of Rosemary Edghill's Twelve Treasures books. Also, Diane Duane's "The Door Into Starlight".

[julian]

You may know this already, but Duane is, supposedly, working on that latter, and has put out a few additional works in service of writing it, but I don't know how progress is on the actual novel. More info here.

The additional works:

https://www.dianeduane.com/portfolio/the-levin-gad-tales-of-the-five-1/

https://www.dianeduane.com/portfolio/the-landlady-tales-of-the-five-2/