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Originally Posted by BenG
They are simply authors writing sequels to someone else's books. Much like L. Sprague de Camp did for Conan the Barbarian and John Gardner did for James Bond.
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Originally Posted by BenG
In Gardner's case, Ian Fleming's estate chose him to write new James Bond novels.
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In the case of the James Bond novels by Gardner, I became convinced that Gardner was making each one worse than the previous one deliberately to get out of his contract.
More recently I was unable to finish a Clive Cussler novel because the writing was so offensively bad. I suspect the publisher's employees' middle-school students are ghosting them.
I have always admired John D MacDonald. maybe I will start writing Travis McGee stories.
Nope. I like him too much.