@geoffc - Good reading is great. But my eyes are too tired after work for significant reading. :(

I prefer to read a paper book. Someone wrote a fan-fic 4th book in the series, and I collected all 57 chapters, formatted it, cleaned up typos, and upload it to a print on demand site, and printed 4 copies for me and some friends. We have our own personal copy of a fake book4. Now book 4 may be actualy coming out.

did fans threaten to complete any other works of his? It's bad cheese SF but I was semi-invested in There Will Be Dragons, etc

and the cover art got progressively worse until he stopped writing them after book 4