Kinda Sad

On one hand, it's sad that a series I am enjoying will never have another book written by a dead author.

On the other hand, at least you can know you have all the books they wrote.

It's especially nice if they completed the series before they died.

Tolkien got out the whole Lord of the Rings.

Saberhagen got out the entire Empire of the East/Swords series.

I don't think that Rosenberg had finished with the Guardians of the Flame series, but he had not come back to it in the four years between the last book and his death; but he had been writing other things.

I don't know if Herbert got to the end of Dune because I didn't manage to finish the books he wrote, let alone the ones that come later by someone else.

Somewhere around here I have the compiled CoDominium book, "The Prince" which is supposed to have all those stories save the Motie books. 

We're on the clock with the Jhereg novels.  Stephen Brust is not a spring chicken any more and he's got two books left to write. 

I have never read a word of A Song of Ice and Fire, despite enjoying the first few seasons of Game of Thrones.  I think George RR Martin is gonna run out the clock on that one and it will be an unfinished series with a dead author.