Enough sex to keep it interesting, male pov and umm oh yeah, thanks in advance.
Enough sex to keep it interesting, male pov and umm oh yeah, thanks in advance.
https://storiesonline.net/s/71259/zombies-werewolves-vampires-and-other-improbable-things
Also Magician (and the sequel Mage) by QM - Vampires, Werewolves, Sidhe, Gorgons, Dwarves, Trolls, Gnomes and all manner of critters.
Very (very!) different take on vampires, werewolves, and elves (and dragons, and cat-people, and ...). Some become involved more in later books.
https://storiesonline.net/s/74428/time-of-eden-and-elves
Warning one: you're starting on a long, long story.
Warning two: the author has passed away and so the odds of it being finished are quite low. But there's so much that is there that if you like very long science fiction stories, it's worth the ride.
Warning one: you're starting on a long, long story.
5 volumes with a total of about 5 million words.
I always get put off when someone recommends me a really good novel that never got finished, like why bother reading it then and i know i know, you guys are going to say "well use your imagination but some of those don't have any of that lol.
like why bother reading it then and i know i know, you guys are going to say "well use your imagination but some of those don't have any of that lol.
No, what we are going to say is that there are some unfinished long stories out there that have enough posted and are good enough that they are worth reading even if you do get left hanging at the end.
even if you do get left hanging at the end.
However, some of us hate being left hanging at the end so much, we refuse to start unfinished stories, because we've been left hanging too many times. (Then there's those like me, who don't want to wait for chapters, and just wait until the whole thing is posted... just like binge-watching a TV show rather than waiting each week for a new episode.)
Some of the question is, what's an unfinished story, exactly? I didn't start posting my first book until I had it finished 'enough' (it's had additional volunteer editors join subsequently). But it's not a standalone book. If I'd written all I'm-not-sure-however-many volumes I'd have lost heart.
Similarly, the story in question (Time of Eden and Elves) has four complete volumes. So one could read those and have a 'finished' story. Sure, there's more out there, but that won't be finished, unless someone comes forward with great ideas and who can write in the author's style enough that the readers accept their additions (at least the last that I'd heard - may be superceded now - is that volunteer efforts to continue it would be OK).
Almost any multivolume story runs the risk of the author passing away mid-story, because few authors will write a work that long with no feedback on whether anyone's going to want a second book, much less a fifth or tenth or whatever.
Almost any multivolume story runs the risk of the author passing away mid-story,
Especially if the author is G.R.R.Martin... or Robert Jordan. Or David Gerrold.
Especially if the author is G.R.R.Martin... or Robert Jordan. Or David Gerrold.
or Piers Anthony
Piers Anthony is still writing and has some books coming out soon. He took time from writing as his wife was ill and died from heart related complications due to a 15 year long battle with Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP).
But he is writing again and even remarried.
Piers Anthony is still writing and has some books coming out soon. He took time from writing as his wife was ill and died from heart related complications due to a 15 year long battle with Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP).
Did I say he was dead or that he had stopped writing.
He could live to be 250 and keep writing until the day they bury him, and the Xanth series will still be unfinished. It might be 150 books, but it won't be finished. :)
The Xanth series is finished just never ending as he loves to use loopholes to progress and write another book. His favorite loophole is using the children/grandchildren of the main characters from previous books or write a story from a character that the main character met during their adventures but at least he does finish just finds a way to continue.
The Xanth series is finished just never ending
This statement contradicts itself.
That which is finished can not be never ending.
That which is never ending can not be finished.
This statement contradicts itself.
That which is finished can not be never ending.
That which is never ending can not be finished.
Exactly just like watching Doctor Who or listening to the radio drama shows in the 30's-50's tune in next week for the further adventures of .....(your show name here)..... or try Batman TV Series (1966–1968) stories would have a two episode arc giving watchers a finished story but we would always return to watch further adventures same Bat time same Bat channel.
@Dominions Son
That which is finished can not be never ending.The circumference of a circle.
Nope. To finish something is to end it. Even a circle is either finished or never ending, it can not be both.
David Gerrold
David Gerrold isn't dead. He just can't figure out how to complete something that he started THIRTY YEARS AGO!
David Gerrold isn't dead. He just can't figure out how to complete something that he started THIRTY YEARS AGO!
And at this rate, how likely is he to live long enough to finish it.
David Gerrold isn't dead. He just can't figure out how to complete something that he started THIRTY YEARS AGO!
So? Martin isn't dead yet either (in fact, he's not as close to death by a few years) but it's not any likelier he'll finish his series.
If I was going for exclusively dead writers, it would've been Jordan, Tolkien, Pratchett (there were more Discworld novels to be written), Asprin, Herbert, and maybe Hubbard.
the whole nine yards..
I had to look up the origin of this phrase. I found it interesting that it has to do with machine gun weapons. I would have guessed cloth material and I was thinking in football you have to go ten yards so that would be even better.
Early machine guns (not Gatling style) used cloth belts to feed the bullets, so it's not like it was unrelated to cloth.
I'm having trouble relocating it, but I found an article which said the saying "the whole nine yards" goes back to at least 1907 which would pre-date the earliest aircraft mounted machine guns (the supposed origin).
On the other hand, the first mass produced belt fed machine gun, the Maxim gun was patented in 1883.
The Oxford English Dictionary places the earliest published non-idiomatic use of the phrase in the New Albany Daily Ledger (New Albany, Indiana, January 30, 1855) in an article called "The Judge's Big Shirt." "What a silly, stupid woman! I told her to get just enough to make three shirts; instead of making three, she has put the whole nine yards into one shirt!" The first known use of the phrase as an idiom appears in The Mitchell Commercial, a newspaper in the small town of Mitchell, Indiana, in its May 2, 1907 edition:
"This afternoon at 2:30 will be called one of the baseball games that will be worth going a long way to see. The regular nine is going to play the business men as many innings as they can stand, but we can not promise the full nine yards."
The idiom was used three more times in the Mitchell Commercial over the next seven years, in the forms give him the whole nine yards (i.e., tell someone a big story), take the whole nine yards (i.e., take everything), and settled the whole nine yards (i.e., resolved everything).
Being Scottish and living in Scotland, I was always told that the "whole 9 yards" refers to the amount of material used in a great Highland kilt (i.e. the one that you loop all around the body rather than the more common one often seen worn by members of the tartan army)