How many eventual books in Out of the Dark series

The Dahak series was never really completed.
The Safehold series was never really completed.
The Honorverse gets a trickle but unlikely to be completed.
There are more examples.

Can anyone tell me if Out of the Dark ends with the trilogy? I don't want to start it only to have it never be completed.

tangledweb wrote:The Dahak series was never really completed.
The Safehold series was never really completed.
The Honorverse gets a trickle but unlikely to be completed.
There are more examples.

Can anyone tell me if Out of the Dark ends with the trilogy? I don't want to start it only to have it never be completed.

Actually Dahak did reach a reasonable conclusion. Safehold is a little bit up in the air, as is the Honorverse. But let's be reasonable about this, we're talking DECADES worth of time in writing and publishing of somewhere in the vicinity of 70+ books. That, right there is amazing. At some point you have to sit down and accept that except under the most perfect of conditions, not all series are going to be "finished"

Now, let's talk about the "Out of the Dark" 3 books. Like all of the better writers RFC's book series generally are, if not exactly "stand alone" each book ends without any egregious cliffhangers. The OotD series is just that 3 very good books that CAN be added onto. OotD was my least favorite, and the closest ANY of David's books came to a cliffhanger (which for you is no big deal, because the following 2 books have already been written) The next book "Into the Light" follows the same outcome, a not too egregious cliffhangers. An ending that we know can be added to. "To Challenge Heaven" (my favorite) has the least not a cliffhanger ending. It can in fact be in the same class as the Dahak series. Yes it can be added to, but I'm satisfied with where we end up.

All of this long winded exposition is to say "Read the damn books!" They're really good, and well worth the time you'll put into them, and if they're not quite a "one and done: trilogy they're still a good read. And bear in mind that the second and third books have a co author in Chris Kennedy, who undoubtedly has outlines for the multi book continuation of the series from RFC, and can surely carry on without too much trouble.

That is my thought on why RFC has done so many collaborations recently, he has many many stories in his head, and not enough time left to him to finish them. So he's farming out outlines and general story directions to younger fitter authors knowing that after collaborating on the first one or two books, they should be able to pick up the story on their own and drive it to a satisfactory conclusion without him.