Quick fantasy / SF question

[ffutures]

I'm looking for examples of books where a work or a series, which was apparently complete, is followed up by more works after some time.

What I don't want is sequels by other hands, share cropping, "based on an idea by," continuing series, etc.

Examples I have so far are the later Earthsea books and Hal Clement's "Needle" and "Through the Eye of a Needle"

Can anyone suggest more examples?

Comments

[timill]

Foundation?

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

The Pern novels maybe?

[robertprior.livejournal.com]

Mary Stewart's Arthurian trilogy, followed quite a time later by "The Wicked Day".

Particularly interesting because (in the copy I had) Stewart talked about how she was constrained by the choices she'd made earlier, even though she had a different take on the legends and would have done things differently were she starting again.


Clarke's Rama books always seemed that way to me. "Rendezvous with Rama" stood nicely on its own, ending enigmatically and inviting the reader to use their imagination. The sequels seemed a bit like Harry Turtledove's endless series' — variations of the same idea, over and over. 2001 as well — the sequels weren't obvious from the first novel, which seemed complete.

[vincentursus.livejournal.com]

Haldeman's Forever War series.
The General Series by Drake and Stirling.
I think L. E. Modesitt did it a couple of times, with the Corean Chronicles and Saga of Recluse.

[whswhs.livejournal.com]

Asimov's Foundation series, and its merger with the Baley/Olivaw novels.

Heinlein's Future History.

The Anthony Villiers/Torve the Trog books (no, just wishful thinking!).

The Vorkosigan novels.

Going way, way back, wasn't there a long hiatus after Dr. Doolittle in the Moon?

It also occurs to me that Chelsea Quinn Yarbro wrote something like half a dozen St.-Germain novels—Hotel Transylvania, The Palace, Blood Games, Path of the Eclipse, Tempting Fate, and the short story collection The Saint-Germain Chronicles—and came back, after some years, to write many, many more.

[coth.livejournal.com]

Didn't Pohl take a break in the Heechee sequence? And would you count Cyteen/Regenesis?

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

The Sherlock Holmes stories.

Arguably The Hobbit / Lord of the Rings qualifies.

[pauldormer.livejournal.com]

Amber?

[draconin.livejournal.com]

I think a definite contender would be Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time. The original was written in 1959/60 but it was only after it won awards and acclaim that the sequels were published, the first over a decade later, in 1973. I doubt that she had those in mind when she began writing as the first book reads to me as completely self contained.

[jeymien.livejournal.com]

Stephen R. Donaldson's Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. It seemed done after the second trilogy in 1983, then he released a new quartet in 2004.