Golden Sunlands

I've been a big admirer of Rowley since I bought The War for Eternity. Original, believable, well-written. Rowley seems to specialise in very human humans and very alien aliens, exciting and fast moving plots. I've re-read both The War for Eternity and The Black Ship more than a couple of times. I bought Golden Sunlands some time ago (years) and kept hold of it meaning to re-read it when the sequel came out. I would reccomend it whole-heartedly to anyone who is a fan of this kind of thing except for one thing (See below). Similar to Larry Niven's Ringworld in concept. Basic plot is entire population of colony planet are enslaved by alien robots and taken to the Plowl, an artificial universe constructed around an expanded singularity (Don't ask me I'm not a physisist). Think of a huge inside-out Dyson's Sphere with thousands of equally spaced red dwarf suns surrounding the outside living surface and you'll be getting there. The creators are desparate for manpower, I won't go too much into why, you might want to read it. It's a great book as you'd expect from this author. Now to the reason for not bothering to read it. From the ending it's clear this book quite definately was intended as the first in a series. The story is left VERY unfinished. Having recently re-read it, I decided to find the sequel and was dissapointed to find there isn't one. It's frankly, rude of author and publisher never to bother to continue it. Kinda upsets the readers, no? I'd be very surprised if there isn't a half finished M/S somewhere, the first book is too well developed for there not to have been a lot more of the story already written. So what happened? It's good, original, enaging, well developed. I'd have re-read it more had it ever been finished and I'd have given it five stars.