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Originally Posted by Quoth
Or the author died.
Or after the 6th book in the more than 10 series it was tedious
Or the main character suddenly has a completely different sexual orientation in the 6th (or whatever book).
Or the last book has a crazy rushed ending (the Character is suddenly a god and makes everything OK, or it was all a dream, or a robot had been manipulating everything from the start - Asimov 30 years later Foundation Series retcon & zeroth law).
Or the alien technology turns out to be magic in the last book.
Or the magic turns out to be forgotten genetic engineering or etc in a much later book. (Pern, Shannara)
Some series suffer from more than one of these. Wheel of Time?
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Or (sorry if I post about for the second time: didn't posted the full explanation before) the author suffered a controversy, on copyrights from a videogame he also made, inspiring it by his previous work that was that book - so the rights of it would had been not clear and the book, which seems to have a fan made translation and a professional one, is still not being sold...