So they can do what they want. I consider myself lucky just to be able to read them. With that said, I don't much care what the timeline is. I like to read the writing about Whately and the kids. The Advancer just doesn't seem up to par for the quality of writing or perhaps it's just that I don't care much for the characters and plot. I wasn't expecting something else so maybe any "not a Whately" story was going to be a disappointment. I think I started reading just a couple of months before the crash and so never had to deal with being "caught up" rather than being "caught up in" the WU stories. It's hard enough waiting as it is and I got spoiled by being able to read them as fast as I could read. Then read them over again a couple of times and finally got to the point where I only read my favorites over again now. I don't think there's any series of stories that I've enjoyed as much as the W.U. stories in my 50+ years of reading. Maybe the lensmen stories when I was a kid, and the Heinlein stories when they were new, but the memories of those are faded with time and the enjoyment of these is fresh and memorable. Great writing and, and, ah darn, I'm not built to use the big sad puppy dog eyes. My new dog Jack could do it. I think he's a combo Jack Russel Terrier and Chihuahua. He bounces. He's as enthusiastic about going outside as I am about getting a new story about the W.U...

I've read Fate a couple of times and just finished part 7 of Anathema and came here looking for Nightbringer, hoping against hope. No such luck.

Chris in CA

PS: If I understand Binary, I graduated from High School back in 1000101 and for awhile I thought about getting that as my personalized license plate. I had better things to spend my money on though.

PPS: It about broke my heart to learn that Maggie has sworn off writing any more W.U. stories and that Starwolf is leaving as well. I despair of ever learning what happens to Fey and Tennyo other than second hand in the remaining author's stories. I hope it's just to write other stories in other universes and not anything we, her fans have done or said.