Continuations

What I want and cannot have is a longer Technic History. Poul Anderson did not write it and no one else can. Some series are multi-authored from their inceptions. A TV series has a single story editor or small editorial team but multiple script writers. Star Trek: Picard not only is a valid continuation but also is of a much higher quality than Star Trek: The Original Series. But a single-authored prose series like Anderson's Technic History cannot be continued in that way. In the Man-Kzin Wars series, I have read only instalments by authors, notably Anderson, in whom I was already interested anyway. The continuation Millennium volumes are not the novels that Stieg Larsson had projected and are not authentic. Any author who set out to add to CS Lewis' Narnian Chronicles would have to either share or at least fully empathize with Lewis' unique blend of Platonic Christianity. (And, in that case, they would probably agree with Lewis' decision to complete the series in seven volumes.) It cannot be done.

Much as I would like to read a whole series about Diana Crowfeather, I know that it cannot be. Fortunately, such works can be reread a lot.