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Originally Posted by CRussel
Though that may be a bit harsh of a description, since even though she was quite ill for many of her last years, MZB did have editorial input into even those later day Darkover books.
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The "glorified fanfic"* ones I'm talking about are the ones written and released many years after her death, which include the latest "Hastur Lord" which came out last year or so, a good decade after her decease.
Whatever initial editorial input MZB may have had in planning even those before she died, it's thoroughly gotten lost in the mess of contradictions that appear in the finished volumes unless she was planning to do a universe-wide reboot of the series.
And I say this as someone who's read all and mildly liked parts of them.
* Though frankly, the Mercedes Lackey and Adrienne Martine-Barnes co-writes weren't all that great in the continuity department, either.