Bisson was already working on it when Miller died, IIRC
Werthead Send a noteboard - 22/09/2010 11:17:50 PM
You're just not cynical enough about all this 
Personally, I rarely read multi-volumes these days, so I never think much about it. But then again, there was the Walter M. Miller, Jr. "sequel" to A Canticle for Leibowitz that came out about 40 years after the original...of course, Miller had to commit suicide first and then the family had to get Terry Bisson to finish it
Personally, I rarely read multi-volumes these days, so I never think much about it. But then again, there was the Walter M. Miller, Jr. "sequel" to A Canticle for Leibowitz that came out about 40 years after the original...of course, Miller had to commit suicide first and then the family had to get Terry Bisson to finish it
I remember reading Bisson's article where he was talking to Miller's publishers about the book and Miller wanted another author to come in and finish it off. Everything was set and Bisson had received the extant MS pages just when Miller killed himself. Since Miller's last statement had been that he was happy for Bisson to finish the book, he went ahead and did it.
An odd affair, it has to be said. Of course, to play devil's advocate, the second Miller book is an unrelated narrative set during the timeline of the original novel rather than a much-promised continuation of an incomplete story
Because George R.R. Martin does everything but write these days...
- 22/09/2010 04:15:04 AM
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I don't hate him. But, like you, I'm fed up with him.
- 22/09/2010 04:47:31 AM
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I'm pretty much in the same camp as you and Tom.
- 22/09/2010 06:17:53 AM
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I'm beginning to agree.
- 22/09/2010 09:55:07 AM
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*NM*
Not only is he a writer, but he has really only one successful series.
- 23/09/2010 03:40:30 AM
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I said I'm "growing" to hate him. I'm not ready to pay for his death yet.
- 23/09/2010 03:37:53 AM
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I was thinking the same things a couple days ago
- 22/09/2010 02:22:49 PM
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If I was an author I wouldn't defend him.
- 22/09/2010 03:35:17 PM
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I agree but emphatically endorse use of the subjunctive "were".
- 23/09/2010 03:31:25 AM
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If I were to be grammatically correct, the world would stop spinning. 
*NM*
- 23/09/2010 02:27:00 PM
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*NM*
- 23/09/2010 02:27:00 PM
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I stopped caring so long ago I don't even remember much of what it's about. *NM*
- 22/09/2010 04:21:52 PM
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Wolves and incest and a big wall of ice with barrow-wights on the other side. *NM*
- 23/09/2010 03:36:19 AM
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You know whenever the new book is ever released, it'll sell even more copies due to the wait, right?
- 22/09/2010 11:06:37 PM
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Bisson was already working on it when Miller died, IIRC
- 22/09/2010 11:17:50 PM
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There's a huge difference between Song of Ice and Fire and Miller's Leibowitz.
- 23/09/2010 03:28:31 AM
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Not neccessarily. There are plenty of series that I started but didn't finish because I lost
- 24/09/2010 12:58:10 AM
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Don't mistake yourself for the average consumer
- 24/09/2010 04:03:57 AM
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Re: Don't mistake yourself for the average consumer
- 24/09/2010 08:55:29 AM
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which is why I always rant - why review a book on your blog, but not Amazon?
- 25/09/2010 03:36:45 PM
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Where's your evidence that Neil Gaiman thinks he's God?
- 23/09/2010 01:31:03 PM
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Re: Nothing wrong with him if does have a high opinion of himself. *NM*
- 26/09/2010 12:11:06 AM
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I'm always amused by these threads.
- 24/09/2010 08:22:54 AM
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Re: I'm always amused by these threads.
- 24/09/2010 02:42:27 PM
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Truly, there's really no reason that you can't be both angry at him and planning to buy the book.
- 25/09/2010 12:46:03 AM
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Re: Because George R.R. Martin does everything but write these days...
- 02/10/2010 02:57:29 AM
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