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Message: <blockquote data-quote="capn_frank" data-source="post: 1694929" data-attributes="member: 7021">I'd like to nominate the "Chung Kuo" series of books by David Wingrove.The Chung Kuo series consists of eight novels about a future in which the Chinese have dominated the world, rewritten history, and built enormous indoor continent-spanning cities three hundred levels in height. I loved the first 4 books and read them several times.I finally got books 5-7 and liked them too.Book 8 was published in England in hardcover and had one very limited print run in paperback in the US, but has been out of print since 1999.I found a copy of book 8 in a used bookstore in London on a trip in 2002 and read it on the plane ride home.Then I had to read it again to confirm my first impression.It totally pulled the rug out from under everything that occured in the first 7 books. It seemed to be from a totally different series altogether, with the characters acting differently and an ending that was totally unsatisfying.It was like a middle schooler's paper that ended with the words "And then he woke up."I read recently that it was going to be 9 books but the publisher made him finish it in 8 but it still leaves a sour taste in my mouth.I would recommend the first 7 to anybody though, it's well worth your time and could very easily be translated into a d20 Future campaign.Frank</blockquote>