Re: "To Challenge Heaven (Out of the Dark, 3)" by David Weber and Chris Kennedy

On Tue, 10 Jun 2025 21:10:07 -0400, WolfFan <akwolffan@zoho.com>
wrote:

Weber’s going all George R.R. Martin, except with multiple series.
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There hasn’t been a new Empire of Man since 2005. No new Starfire since
2002. (Steve White has perpetuated at least two more by himself. They were
distinctly inferior.) There hasn’t been a new Safehold since 2019. There
hasn’t been a new Bazhell since 2015. No new Hell’s Gate since 2016. No
new Dahak since 1996. Lots of space vampires who are really solar-powered
nanobots and prequels to the AliciaDeVries and weird alt universe stuff.
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Personally I think that there ain’t gonna be any resolution of the
cliffhangers in the old series, and I am _very_ reluctant to start up new
series. I expect that he’ll lose interest. Again. And the space vampires
are just so utterly ridiculous. Especially after the bad guys from the first
book switch sides in the third book ‘cause they weren’t really all that
bad, they just killed a third of humanity, that’s all.
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Bloody hell.

Perhaps he's just run out of ideas.

Not every author writes out the master plot of the entire series and
stores it in a vault, after all.

Not every series starts with a clear idea of where the overall story
is going.
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Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"