Other than the Bible and the James Bond series, name a series that didn't stop

[MrScorpio]

After the original author died

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. Sherlock Holmes; Dune; Star Trek

Although partly this depends on definition - only Doyle's stories are canonical, so it's almost more fan fiction than any kind of actual "continuation" of a series.

[Westegg]

2. Congressional Congress/NT

[Dr. Strange]

3. The Hardy Boys

Which barely has an "original author" from the sound of it.

[mainegreen]

4. Robot Series

Caliban, Inferno, Utopia by Roger MacBride Allen, approved by Asimov before he died.
:shrug:

[Dr. Strange]

5. I suppose one could include the Foundation series with the prequel books

by Benford, Bear, and Brin.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

6. L. Ron Hubbard seems to have been fairly prolific even after death...

He had a science fiction series that went on for a while, I think, plus lots of other non-series crap.

[Pendrench]

7. The Wizard of Oz n/t

[Pacifist Patriot]

8. Nancy Drew

[TommyO]

9. Gone With The Wind

Scarlett and Went With The Wind were the sequels, with WWTW being the far better one.

[bikebloke]

10. (some intials) Andrews

In the Attic series. I read one and didn't care for it. For years after they died, new books kept coming out. All those poor trees died for that tripe.

[MrScorpio]

12. V. C. Andrews

A local writer

http://www.nndb.com/people/228/000044096/

[TheMightyFavog]

11. The Deathlands Series.

Continued after one of the original authors who wrote pretty well much the first thirty books died seven years ago.

All the books except for the first one were written under the pen name James Axler.

[Parche]

13. The Hugh Series1111111

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :hi:

[Orrex]

14. Superman, Batrman

etc.

[Orrex]

24. Who the hell is Batrman?

:shrug:

[pokerfan]

15. Lord of the Rings

Christopher Tolkien took it over from his father.

[Squatch]

16. Does anybody know WHO the original author of the Bible was?

[MrScorpio]

17. Moses wrote the first five books

Or so he said

[yardwork]

27. God wrote the Bible in English for the Pilgrims to bring to America and found a new Nation

under God.

Don't you know anything???

[LanternWaste]

29. good luck!

66 books written by over 50 authors with diverse backgrounds ranging from shepherds and doctors to kings and tax-collectors, written in approximately six different languages and from three different continents over the span of 3500 years... good luck!

On Edit: I think it was Stephen King...

[NightWatcher]

18. who wrote "Police Academy"?

I doubt that anyone even did write that series but for a while in the 90's it looked like they would go on forever.

[Sequoia]

19. Nancy Drew

[baldguy]

20. Fibonacci

[truedelphi]

21. Wise Guy! n/t

[XemaSab]

22. you rock.

:D

[mark414]

23. the Boxcar Children

[QueenOfCalifornia]

25. THE INFAMOUS CIRCUIT CITY SERIES!

it still happens all the time

[KamaAina]

26. Lawrence Sanders' Archy McNally series

now written by Vincent Lardo, who I sincerely hope did not have a weight problem in third grade. :-)

Factoid: The Lardo books are actually titled (for example) "Lawrence Sanders McNally's Dare", so that the publisher can continue to print the name "Lawrence Sanders" above the real title on the cover, in the same font as when Sanders was the author, sort of like the reverse of what the Goldmans' publisher did with "if I DID IT".

[LanternWaste]

28. Robert Arthur's 'The Three Investigators'

Robert Arthur's 'The Three Investigators'



Sure, I was a kid once, and man-o-man did I love these books (along w/ Danny Dunn, Alvin Fernald and Henry Reed)! Am I showing my middle age or what? :crazy:

[MonkeyFunk]

30. The Tupac music catalog