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* David Weber's ''[[Honor Harrington|Honorverse]]'' was originally going to be timeskipped several decades, following the death of its namesake character. Her children would have continued the action. His Eric Flint collaboration ''Crown of Slaves'' nixed this original plan; its espionage plot ended up fast-forwarding the conflict by putting pressure on {{spoiler|the Mesans}} (spoiler probably unnecessary) to enact their plan early. As a happy side effect, Honor was spared, cutting off what would probably have been the greatest [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks|fan rebellion]] in modern Sci-Fi literature.
** He's also had several space battles that would have been epic happen offscreen. We get the setup and then... [[Meanwhile Back At The Ranch]].
* [[Larry Niven]] was planning to write a book for the ''Known Space'' verse tentatively called that would have given a definitive end for that universe taking the whole thing "down in flames". Before he'd gotten past a rough outline he came up with the idea for ''[[Ringworld]]'' and decided to do that instead. ''Ringworld'' and the books that followed have invalidated much of the original plans Niven had for the down in flames storyline but a modified version may eventually be written. The outline and Niven's comments about how it ended up getting discarded can be read [https://web.archive.org/web/20161218200726/http://www.larryniven.org/stories/downinflames.shtml here].
* At the very beginning of his career, [[Sherlock Holmes]] was called Sherringford Hope.
** And Dr. Watson was Ormond Sacker.
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