As pointed out on rasfw

[james_davis_nicoll]

The perils and pleasures of long-running fantasy series

Also as pointed out on rasfw: Poor Gerrold; his grand unfinished series has pretty fallen off people's radar.

Comments

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

I will start moaning about Game of Thrones delays the week after I get The Universal Pantograph in my in-box (considers my James is a dumbass Panshin story but then saves it for another occasion.

[mme-hardy.livejournal.com]

Damn, I wish I could read that book. It's very high up on my list, together with the third Naga Teot (Bloodstorm) book.

[agharta75.livejournal.com]

I'm too busy with "The Last Dangerous Visions" to get to either of them.

[mme-hardy.livejournal.com]

Haven't most of those stories leaked out by now? I think the Cordwainer Smith one has. Or am I conflating two things?

[le-trombone.livejournal.com]

"Most" is an over-estimate, but a significant number of them have seen print.

[mme-hardy.livejournal.com]

Damn. There are a lot of fine authors still buried there.

[le-trombone.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Without naming names, one of the people involved in the TLDV Bibliography list happened to meet one of the authors over a decade ago, and asked her (I'm willing to mention gender) if she had plans for her story outside of TLDV.

Reading between the diplomatic lines, he believes that she will start submitting the story the week after H.E.'s obituary runs. I don't know if he's still as famously litigious as his reputation has it, but I do wonder if some of the no-shows are because the authors just don't want to bother when they can just write a different short story.