XPost: alt.books.david-weber

On 8/5/25 13:19, Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 8/29/2022 4:39 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

 From David Weber's Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/david.weber.5621/posts/
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"Um. I posted this as a comment in a conversation about unfinished
series and storylines that would probably never be completed on one of
the TRMN pages, and someone suggested I should make it more broadly
available, so …..
———-
Okay, I am looking to the future of the Honorverse and several of the
other series I have going. There almost certainly WILL be at least
one, and probably 2-3, more novels in the Honorverse, following END IN
FIRE's merger of the main series and the Crown of Slaves series. They
won't be written with ERIC (which i hate) but he and I always knew
exactly where the books were going, and they will go there. It is
possible that the collaborator I have in mind will also replace ME
before the end of the journey (as someone said, I am --- alas ---
mortal, and I am one of those writers who will never be "done"), but
the end will be reached,
Tim Zahn, Tom Pope, and I will be wrapping the MANTICORE ASCENDANT
series in the next couple of books, at which point we will tie it off
with a bow. Jacob Holo and I will be writing the story of Edward
Saganami shortly. Joelle and I are working on the next MULTIVERSE/
HELL'S GATE book, and we know precisely where that series will
ultimately end up. I don't know that I'll be here to see the final
book, but I know what will be in it and I totally trust Joelle,
Sharon, and Toni Weisskopf to get the series there with quality
writing. Richard Fox and I have about 3 more books to bring Terrence
Murphy's immediate story to a close, though we may go a tiny bit
farther than that. We are looking at doing the second book in the
Murphyverse later this fall/winter. It's already plotted and ready to
go. Chris Kennedy and I just handed in the sequel to INTO THE LIGHT,
and I think it's solid. I'm not sure how far we're going to get into
that one, but I think we can keep our readers satisfied. And the only
reason I'm not sure how far we'll get is that I set up a heck of a big
enemy when I created the Hegemony, and it's likely to "end up" with a
case of Mutually Assured Destruction rather than a clear cut military
victory. Can't say that for sure; we got farther in the current book
than we'd really expected. I need to sit down with Jane Lindskold some
time in the next couple of months and lay out the writing outline for
the next STAR KINGDOM novel. We are envisioning three more in that
series, too. I have at least two more novels in SAFEHOLD (might be 3)
at which point I will be at a thoroughly satisfying stopping point.
(Could go farther if I brought in the right collaborator, but I don't
think it's likely.) 3-4 more books in the SWORD OF THE SOUTH series,
and then that's done.
So, by my calculations, that's another 22 books I need to get written
to wrap up my current series plans.
I'm 70 this October. I sold the first novel thirty-three years ago.
Since then, I have published (or have currently turned in, awaiting
production) 74 solo and collaborative novels, which works out to
roughly 2.24 per year. That doesn't count the anthologies, of course.
I lost roughly 2 years to the concussion, and about a year and a half
to the Covid, so let's call it 30 years, not 33, which brings the
production up to 2.5 per year. And let's assume that I write for
another ten years, which (at the moment, and barring any anticipated
encounters with mortality) seems entirely plausible. By my
calculations, that comes to another TWENTY-FIVE solo and collaborative
novels, in the process of which I will be working with some of my
collaborators to establish them firmly in the existing universes going
forward.
People, like the characters in Richard Adams' PLAGUE DOGS, I'll
probably still be writing "when the dark comes down." That means,
obviously, that I won't be "finished" when I leave, but don't go
around thinking that you're getting rid of me next week!
Just saying."

Amazing plans.

Lynn

Yup, I see 2 or 3 more SAFEHOLD books in those massive plans and 3 or 4
more SWORD OF THE SOUTH books.

Should be enough to make everyone happy if Weber survives.

Lynn

Well Safehold was an interesting series but with so many other series to
pursue I will not likely be around when the next novels come around. On the outside chance that sooner or later we will all end up in some state of
being
be sure to read them closely so that you can tell me all about if we end up
in the same place.

bliss - 88 by this time next week

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