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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Right. I'm aware that he has other books available. But unfortunately, seemingly everything else he wrote (except for the fairy tale books and the D&D players vs. a computer books) are sequels to The Iron Tower.
That's the danger of an author setting everything in the same fictional world. To an outsider, their work can become impenetrable. Ray Feist has the same problem.
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He also wrote a bunch of other unrelated things, I've bought as physical and ebooks. Check out his brilliant novel,
The Caverns Of Socrates, for one ... now called
Shadowtrap (and it has a sequel,
Shadowprey), it is a great blend of technology and fantasy, and could make a great movie I reckon.
However, it depends on how you look at things and how he became an author in the first place, and what motivated him to write.
Many of the latter books in the same Mithgar series, are prequels, and both them and later sequels change things within the world of Mithgar significantly. So they are very much different to the humble beginnings of The Iron Tower. In fact for me personally, while still enjoying them a lot, they mostly never really had the magic of his first foray (Hel's Crucible duology one of the exceptions). Chiefly because they give a very different slant on things ... much broader scope. So you would be very much mistaken, to think his later books in the series add little. Terry Brooks has done a similar thing, especially with his prequels to Shannara.
So Dennis did diverge, but pressure from fans and the odd idea popping up, meant he kept returning to Mithgar. And very much in the beginning at least, he was governed by writing for pleasure, especially as he started late in his life. He was not exactly a prolific writer either, when you consider the timeline.
From what I have picked up about him, he never had the goals of being a best selling author.