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* ''The Death of Grass'' by [[John Christopher]]. A very interesting apocalypse plot about all Earth's grasses dying, but after an interesting beginning the whole thing turned into survivalist horror and the plot might as well have been zombies for all the difference it makes.
* In ''[[Empire From the Ashes]]'', the galaxy is periodically purged of intelligent life by mysterios invaders known as the Achuultani. In the second book, their latest genocidal wave is defeated and their homeworld ({{spoiler|and the evil AI enslaving them}}) is identified. Humanity never does get around to advancing on the Achuultani homeworld...
** The text points out that defeating the entire Achuultani race is going to be a multi-generational project, steps one and two of which are 'Finish salvaging as much Fourth Empire remnant tech as possible and building up our forces to sufficient size' and 'Breed and raise enough free Achuultani to have the occupation troops/missionaries sufficient unto actually converting the rest of their brainwashed hordes so that you don't have to kill them all'. Both jobs are hinted at needing a couple of centuries to complete, so, yes, the main plot effectively ends as soon as the Achuultani incursion into the galactic arm is defeated and the Fifth Empire is founded.
* In [[Alan Dean Foster]]'s ''[[Spellsinger]]'' series, the lead character is a dabbling musician [[Fish Out of Water|transported to a magical world]]. But the thing is, the wizard who called for him was trying to get an engineer. The [[The Engineer|possible]] [[Magitek|awesomeness]] [[Magic Versus Science|of]] [[This Is My Boomstick|that]] is only matched for the fact that it would by any means turn out as a horrible case of [[Mary Sue]].
** Rick Cook fulfils this wasted potential in his ''[[Wiz Biz]]'' novels, featuring a computer programmer summoned to a world of magic.
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