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{{quote|''"After all, as some of you like to point out in your emails, I am sixty years old and fat, and you don't want me to [[Person as Verb|'pull a]] [[The Wheel of Time|Robert Jordan]]' on you and deny you your book."''<ref>Someone created a cartoon pretending that he's deliberately planning to do '''exactly''' that. "They think they hate me now... wait til they see who I kill off next!"</ref>
|'''George R.R. Martin''' on ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire|A Dance with Dragons]]''}}
A [[Fandom]]'s worst nightmare.
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* Z.A. Recht died with the third book in his ''Morningstar Strain'' trilogy unfinished.
* Andrew Keith, who co-wrote the ''[[Wing Commander (video game)|Wing Commander]] III'' [[Novelization]] and ''[[Wing Commander (novel)|False Colors]]'' with William Forstchen, passed away in 1999 before he and Forstchen could work on a planned sequel to ''False Colors'' that would have bridged the gap between that book's end and the start of ''Wing Commander IV''.
* [[Diana Wynne Jones]] was working on a fourth book in the ''[[Howl's Moving Castle (novel)|Wizard's Castle]]'' series before her death in 2011. Although series completion is thankfully not an issue with that series (like her ''[[Chrestomanci]]'' series, ''[[Howl's Moving Castle (novel)|Wizard's Castle]]'' is a series of individual stories connected by a few recurring characters), it was nonetheless a disappointment, as the series had received a recent [[Colbert Bump|popularity boost]] thanks to [[Studio Ghibli]]'s
* ''The Cat Who Smelled Smoke'' was to be the thirtieth volume in the popular ''[[The Cat Who]]...'' mystery series by Lilian Jackson Braun. It was to have been published in 2008, but was put on hold due to the author's failing health. When she passed away in 2011, the book was canceled entirely, and so the series will remain unfinished.
* [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]' ''Skeleton Men of Jupiter'', the last story in the ''[[John Carter of Mars]]'' series, was intended as the first in a series of novelettes with ongoing plot, so the story ends with the plot unresolved. The followups never got made, and ERB died a few years after the story's publication.
* Averted at one point by [[Stephen King]], who had finished only four out of seven books in ''[[The Dark Tower]]'' series when he was struck by a van and sent to the hospital with severe injuries. He later references this, at least indirectly.<ref>After he is written into the story, fictional King says he became motivated to finish the story after coming so close to death.</ref>
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* [[Anne McCaffrey]] managed to avoid this with the long-running [[Pern]] series by collaborating with her son, Todd, on a few books before turning the franchise over to him entirely. So even though she passed away in November 2011, Pern survives. (YMMV as to whether this is a good thing or not.)
** Their final collaboration has been finished and 'in the can' for quite some time. The publisher is sitting on it for unknown reasons, perhaps to avoid a [[Too Soon]] release that could be construed as capitalizing on her death. There's also the "final" Pern book she worked on for years, with a working/joke title ''After the Fall is Over''. No word on whether or not Todd will finish it.
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