30 Day Book Meme Day One: Series cut short in their prime...

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Since I have finished the thirty day movie meme, I might as well feature the Thirty Day Book Meme. Making this Day One. I got the meme from the book meme lj community and marifee's blog and Dreamwidth's Anna Genoese. (Thanks to them all!)

Day 01 – A book series you wish had gone on longer OR a book series you wish would just freaking end already (or both!)

1. I don't care if series I don't like go on and on. Let them! I don't have to read them.
   
   
2. Wanting more: The "Dumarest of Terra" series by E.C. Tubb. It's a series of space adventure novels about a man from the planet Earth, a planet that has been lost and forgotten and long considered a myth. Earl Dumarest stowed away on a spaceship as a child, and now, as a battle-toughened adult, is trying to find his way home, wandering from planet to planet, taking high-risk, high-paying work (bodyguard, gladiator, bounty hunter) to earn his way back to a place which may no longer exist. And there's a sinister quasi-religious organization who wants him dead.
   
   I always pictured Dumarest as a youngish Clint Eastwood.
   
   I loved those books. They stopped, rather suddenly, at a point where the plot was thickening: Dumarest might have found a valid clue to Earth's whereabouts.
   
   And eureka, I just discovered on answering this question, that two books I didn't know about were added to the series: The Return and Child of Earth. Sadly, The Return seems to be available at amazon dot com for $282.87. For a small paperback. Sigh. Guess I won't be buying it soon.
   
   I'd be happy to read it in French, but Amazon.fr doesn't list Le Retour. It it does have a Tubb novel called Stardeath, apparently not a Dumarest novel.
   
   And what's this on amazon.ca: a book called The Death Zone by E.C. Tubb, coming out soon, with no information given? Could it be the mysterious " (2010>" mentioned on the Wikipedia page?
   
   
   
3. Wanting more: The notorious series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin, a dark medieval fantasy about a world falling into chaos. Beautifully, beautifully written - until Martin began running out of steam and wandering away from his own storylines. Projected publication dates for A Dance of Dragons have become more and more fanciful and some of us think Martin never will finish this saga. It was magnificent for a while.
   
   Very soon the first book, A Game of Thrones, will be an HBO miniseries starring Sean Bean as Eddard Stark - brilliant casting. I'm looking forward to this.
   
   The story has a cast of way too many people and huge diverse families - I'm delighted to see people putting together and encyclopedia with cast list on Tower of the Hand.
   
   
4. Wanting more: I hope there will be more Torchwood novels.