When an author finishes a book or a series, I consider it done. I read the book(s) with the understanding that the story is complete. Even if I adore the narrative and characters, I don’t typically feel a burning desire for more. (The exception, of course, being when an author stops writing a story in the middle of a series.)
All of this means that I have had a very mixed response to Neil Gaiman’s announcement that he is writing a sequel to Neverwhere and Philip Pullman’s statement that he is publishing a companion trilogy to the His Dark Materials series.
Why? Why would they do this?
That may be a silly question to ask. The ‘why’ is because the authors wanted to write more within specific worlds they created. They hardly need to defend that decision. As a reader though, I still don’t entirely understand it. I have read…
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