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January 26, 2005
Series Books
I have just finished Kage Baker's excellent The Life of the World to Come, seventh (if you count Black Projects, White Knights and Mother Aegypt) in her "Company" series of books that currently includes In the Garden of Iden, Sky Coyote, Mendoza in Hollywood, and The Graveyard Game.
And I want to know what happens next. And I want to know now! And I have a very bad feeling about this: <not really a spoiler> our heroes cannot penetrate the Silence, and presumably the faction that wins can and does</not really a spoiler>. The reason I cannot learn what happens next because at the moment there are no more books to read: Kage Baker has not written the end of the big story arc yet.
Thus I am once again contemplating my forsworn oath not to read any books that are part of a series until the author has not only publicly announced the end of the series, but has also done things to make sure that the series is... shall we say beheaded and staked? I really don't want to become one of those damned addicted souls bidding a fortune for advance bound galleys on eBay, do I?
And what, exactly, is the title "The Life of the World to Come" supposed to mean in this context (yes, I know where it comes from)?
Posted by DeLong at January 26, 2005 11:55 AM
Comments
"...not to read any books that are part of a series until the author has not only publicly announced the end of the series..."
So you're ok with Harry Potter, then?
Posted by: Linkmeister at January 26, 2005 11:58 AM
I agree completely. I was suckered into _To Your Scattered Bodies Go_ without being aware that the series would just wander off into nowhere. I got into _Chung Kuo_ which also wandered off into nowhere by the end. But with the _Dark Tower_ I have waited till the end, and I think I'll be happier for that.
Harry Potter (and, as other examples, Diskworld or Iain M Banks' Culture books) are rather different in that they pretty much stand on their own. You don't even miss that much by reading them out of order, and you certainly don't feel that each one ends with unresolved issues that you want resolved now.
Posted by: Maynard Handley at January 26, 2005 12:27 PM
I was really pissed about Chung Kuo not going anywheres. That was a really good series through to the fourth book or so...Wonder what happened to David Wingate.
Posted by: shah8 at January 26, 2005 12:44 PM
I meant wingrove, not wingate, sorry
Posted by: shah8 at January 26, 2005 12:49 PM
Alas, those books are not in my library...
Posted by: sm at January 26, 2005 12:56 PM
(tapping my feet, glaring impatiently at George R.R. Martin.)
[Let me join you...]
Posted by: LizardBreath at January 26, 2005 02:39 PM
The mysteries I want to know about are gur yvggyr fghcvq crbcyr naq gur fgenatr grpgbavpf. But I can wait.
[I wish I were one of the people who could do rot13 in my head...]
Posted by: Carlos at January 26, 2005 04:18 PM
LizardBreath, George is a *friend* of mine and I have to tell him and his S.O. that no, I haven't read a word of Song of Ice and Fire and I'm not going to until just before the publication date of Feast of Crows. Paris just grinned and told me that she knows what I mean.
Posted by: Jim S at January 26, 2005 07:12 PM
Speech is silver, silence is gold.
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