Will there every be a sequel to...? (Older books you'd love to see sequels to)

[Alchemist]

Third and final new thread for the day - I'm on a roll!

The title says it all: What older books, say those written ten or more years ago, would you like to see a sequel to? They don't have to be 10+ years old, but they should at least be a few years old and not part of a known sequence or series.

I've been on a Morgaine Saga kick, so that would be my first choice. Exile's Gate was published 23 years ago and there is plenty of story left in Morgaine's universe.

I'd also love to see a follow-up to Riddlemaster. I'm not sure where McKillip would go with it, but even pushing the timeline far into the future, perhaps the descendents of Morgan.

I suppose the chances of either happening are unlikely, but they could happen, right?

 

[algernoninc]

a sequel to Chapterhouse Dune. [no, I don't consider the books written by his son and Kevin Anderson worthy of the original series]

a sequel to Helliconia Winter. [we had spring, summer and winter]

some more Master Li and No. 10 Ox stories by Barry Hughart.

 

[owlcroft]

Let's see . . .

(I am including here some now-deceased authors, just for the conversation.)

• Bellairs, John: The Face in the Frost (he had actually started a sequel, called The Dolphin Cross, but only a small, first-draft fragment exists).
• Cherryh, C. J.: the "Morgaine" tales (arguably sf, but fantastical)
• Davidson, Avram: a famous leaver of unfinished business--we need The Six-Limbed Folk and The Cap of Grace (from the "Island Under the Earth" trilogy), Peregrine: Tertius from the "Peregrine" trilogy, and the many "Vergil" books he intended.
• Dexter, Susan: The Wizard's Shadow practically screams for one or more sequels.
• Dunsany, Lord: more "Jorkens" tales.
• Eddison, E. R.: proper completion of The Mezentian Gate (from the "Zimiamvia" trilogy").
• Hanratty, Peter: the expected sequels to The Book of Mordred.
• Hughart, Barry: more "Master Li" books.
• Lafferty, R. A.: the rest of the "Coscuin" quartet--Sardinian Summer and First and Last Island (manuscripts are said to exist).
• Orr, A.: more "World in Amber" novels
• Peake, Mervyn: all the rest of the planned "Titus" novels (the idea was to follow Titus from birth to death in a lengthy sequence).
• Tolkien, J. R. R.: as son Christopher's work shows, there was the stuff of several more works there; would that they could have been completed by the man himself in some reasonably final form.

I'd say the greatest losses are the Bellairs, the Davidsons, the Eddison, and--above all--the Peakes.

 

[DarthV]

Not fantasy, but

1. Tony Daniel's Metaplanetary/Superluminal.

2. Scott Westerfield's Succession duology.

 

[Alchemist]

[*]Cherryh, C. J.: the "Morgaine" tales (arguably sf, but fantastical)

At most I think you could call Morgaine science fantasy, but even then its a stretch. Morgaine carries around a "phaser" of some kind, her sword might be a technological device, and the gates themselves sound like science and not magic, but the feel of all four books is fantasy and, if we're following Clarke's third law, the technology of the sequence is magic, because that is how it appears to the viewpoint character, Vanye.

 

[Heather Myst]

I would love to see a sequel to Jennifer Fallon's Second Sons trilogy.

 

[Werthead]

[*]Peake, Mervyn: all the rest of the planned "Titus" novels (the idea was to follow Titus from birth to death in a lengthy sequence).

I'd say the greatest losses are the Bellairs, the Davidsons, the Eddison, and--above all--the Peakes.

There is the 'new' Gormenghast book out next month, I believe, based on a small fragment written by Peake and then the rest written by his wife, based on information give to her by him (allegedly). I am skeptical it can be any good, but you never know.

 

[JunkMonkey]

I'm still waiting for Alexei Panshin's The Universal Pantograph. 42 years since Masque World. I need to know what happens next!

 

[owlcroft]

Be afraid.

There is the 'new' Gormenghast book out next month, I believe, based on a small fragment written by Peake and then the rest written by his wife, based on information give to her by him (allegedly). I am skeptical it can be any good, but you never know.

From what I have read about it--not a lot so far, but suggestive--I have great fears. If it is as I suspect, we can just hope that it sinks without trace and leaves Peake's reputation unsullied (yes, it's by Maeve, but everyone will associate it with Peake).

Peake had undertaken a major project; his plan was to produce a quite long series of novels following Titus literally from birth to death, but his untimely death cut off the series after three books, at the end of which Titus was I forget exactly, but I think barely out of his teens. Even so, because the third book was somewhat different from the first two, which were set in Gormenghast (to the extent that the three are usually, and incorrectly, referred to as "the Gormenghast trilogy", when they are neither), lots of people who expected a simple repetition were disappointed. Indeed, the novel was often described as inferior by supposed effect of Peake's decaying mental state near his death. In reality, he was just striking out in a new direction, after having finished one stage of Titus's life, the Gormenghast phase.

Critics always complain that writers repeat themselves and never do anything new, then bitch and moan when they don't crank out exactly such repetitions. Mirth-provoking.