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* Some fans of the ''TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'' books by LFrankBaum refuse to acknowledge the existence/validity of those written by other authors after his death. This group included Jack Snow, the author of two of the later books, who included no references whatsoever in them to the works of Baum's previous successors.

* Some AlexRider fans say that Alex died at the end of Scorpia and the other two did not happen, not because they were bad, but because fans like the realism of the books and refuse to believe that [[spoiler:Alex survived a shot to the chest]].

* Some AlexRider fans say that Alex Died at the end of Scorpia and the other two did not happen, not because they were bad, but because fans like the realism of the books and refuse to believe that [[spoiler:Alex survived a shot to the chest]].

* In common with the other long-running series mentioned, very few AnneRice fans acknowledge the entire VampireChronicles series. Just where the line gets drawn varies, but fans generally fall into two camps: those that believe the series ended with ''Queen of the Damned'', and those that acknowledge everything up to the point where Anne Rice started the {{Crossover}}s with the Mayfair Witches. The major point of contention seems to be when precisely Lestat became a GodModeSue and BoringInvincibleHero (note that "if" he did is not even brought into question). But it's worth noting that not even the most diehard fans accept ''Blood Canticle''. Speaking of the Mayfairs, an awful lot of fans pretend ''that'' series ended with ''Lasher'', and a significant minority refuses to accept anything but the first book. Tellingly, neither set of fans is happy with the VC crossovers.

* Many fans consider ''Eclipse'' the last book of the ''{{Twilight}}'' series, to the point that there's a LiveJournal community about it.

* Many Main/ScienceFiction fans refuse to acknowledge any ''Main/{{Dune}}'' books not written by Frank Herbert, despite this ending the series on a massive cliffhanger. They choose to follow Muad'Dib's philosophy, instead: "Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife -- chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now, it's complete because it's ended here.' " Some go even further and ignore books after ''Children of Dune'' or ''Dune Messiah'', or even accept only the original novel.

* Many fans are of the opinion there are only four (or possibly three... or two) books in ''Main/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' trilogy. Either option means Arthur has a chance of living Main/HappilyEverAfter.
** It is written somewhere (maybe in ''Salmon of Doubt'') that Adams was very depressed while writing ''Mostly Harmless'' and [[Main/CanonDisContinuity intended to write a sixth book, reversing the ending]], before he suffered Main/AuthorExistenceFailure.
** The radio series suggested that the characters escape via AppliedPhlebotinum and offers several alternate endings, including one where [[spoiler: Arthur is reunited with Fenchurch]] in Milliways, which just turns this troper's heart into [[SugarWiki/CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming melted]] [[Main/RomanticPlotTumor cheese]] (in a good way).
** There is now a sixth book, in which everyone survived (using the method [[Main/IKnewIt this troper thought of]]). Of course, it's likely to be Main/DisContinuity as well for many people, for obvious reasons.
* Terry Pratchett has stated that the (unnamed) Patrician in ''Discworld/TheColourOfMagic'' is Havelock Vetinari (though written by a worse writer), but since a) he doesn't act much like Vetinari, b) it's a little dicey timeline-wise, and c) it's hard to believe that Vetinari could ''ever'', in ''any'' alternate timeline, have been an obese man who threw wild parties and ate candied jellyfish, many fans choose to believe that the earlier Patrician is one of Vetinari's predecessors (Snapcase or Winder).
* Depending on the ''Main/HarryPotter'' fan, some may completely ignore the epilogue to the last novel, completely ignore the last novel, or completely ignore the last two novels, either in order to "preserve" the characters in [[Main/HesJustHiding the state that they found most attractive]] or to prevent the characters from [[Main/DieForOurShip ending up in the wrong pairings]]. There's even a commonly-used FanFic abbreviation - EWE, [[FunWithAcronyms for]] "'''E'''pilogue? '''W'''hat '''E'''pilogue?"

*** There are some aspects, however, that are almost universally ignored. For instance, there exists all of one major Next Generation fanfiction that acknowledge McGonnagal having retired by the 2017. And even then she comes back.
* The ''Main/StarWars: Jedi Prince'' young adult novels (also known as ''TheGloveOfDarthVader'' after the first book) are considered Main/ExpandedUniverse canon, with handbooks and timelines briefly referencing characters in the series. Still, fans refuse to accept that the series ever took place, and only two points from the series are ever brought up again, ever; the concept of [[Main/RidiculouslyHumanRobots Human Replica Droids]], and Duro being a wasteland, polluted to the point of being uninhabitable by industrial waste and other early-'90s chic social issues.
** Naturally, many ignore the ''Main/StarWars'' Main/ExpandedUniverse completely.

* The sequels to Main/ArthurCClarke's ''RendezvousWithRama'' are generally left out of existence by anyone who happened to read them.
** Ditto the last two sequels to the SpaceOdyssey series
* A number of fans prefer to deny the ''Main/EndersGame'' series kept going after ''Speaker For the Dead''. Others ignore anything after the original, and still others discount the Ender-focused sequels but include the more recent Bean-focused series.

** Some don't believe that it took something like ten years after Wulfgar's death for Catti-brie and Drizzt to go to bed together, and some think it's a trick and never happened at all, and some can't believe that either the relationship or the marriage happened so quickly. More recently, some just don't understand why [[spoiler:Salvatore would go to the trouble of putting them together and setting up a possibility for her to live a very long life--i.e. magery--only to marginalize her character for the last two books, hand her a DistressBall, use her as a plot device to put the characters where he need them to go, [[StuffedInTheFridge and then kill her and put her in a heaven that]] ''[[FridgeLogic Drizzt won't even]]'' [[DownerEnding get to go to]]''.]]]] ''Especially'' when he could have avoided all that and just taken [[spoiler:her magic away and had her die of old age before the new era in 4th Edition ForgottenRealms]].

* "The Mazarin Stone" (adapted by Arthur Conan Doyle from his play "The Crown Diamond") gets this treatment by ''{{Sherlock Holmes}}'' fans, for it is one of only two stories that are narrated in third-person, breaking the long tradition of Watson as the biographer (and the rare examples of Sherlock narrating his own adventures), with an {{Idiot Plot}} of trying to recover the stone - via the Villains showing off the stolen goods ''right in the Great Detective's home'' after he switched places with a wax dummy of himself. Granted the dummy was a {{Chekhovs Gun}} since "The Empty House", but ''still''!

*** Is it possible to have '''Fanon''' Discontinuity for all of the increasingly absurd {{Ret Con}}s and alternate theories people have tried to come up with to either discount or "explain" a canon that never really needed explaining in the first place?

** Many fans also dislike some of {{Todd McCaffrey}}'s books. ...The ones that were only written by him, to be specific.

* Evan Wright's GenerationKill has a fair share of military personnel who describe it as either embellished or outright fiction.
* While August Derleth's contribution in H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos can't be denied (he invented the name "Cthulhu Mythos", and helped to popularise Lovecraft's work), many people consider many elements he added into his version of the Mythos as DisContinuity, as they often went completely against Lovecraft's vision. For one thing, he tried to introduce the concept of good vs evil into the Mythos (while Lovecraft himself always maintained that good and evil are concepts created by humans and cannot be aplied to godlike alien beings).

* Some fans of the ''Oz'' books by L. Frank Baum refuse to acknowledge the existence/validity of those written by other authors after his death. This group included Jack Snow, the author of two of the later books, who included no references whatsoever in them to the works of Baum's previous successors.

* ''Ardneh's Sword'' never existed for many fans of ''Empire of the East'' and the ''Swords'' series. Especially since it contained several obvious and absurd RetCons.
* A few fans of Brent Weeks' Night Angel Trilogy chose to ignore the middle and last book completely, only accepting Way of the Shadows as canon. This is mostly because of [[GodModSue a little sloppy characterization]] and not one, but two cases of very annoying girlfriends.

* A few MaximumRide fans have ignored the TrilogyCreep by deciding that only the first three books are canon. The fact that the continuing stories basically became an Aesop about global warming didn't help much; neither did the fact that Patterson said he planned to only write a trilogy.
* Some PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians fans choose to ignore [[TheHeroesOfOlympus The Lost Hero]] in its entirety.

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* Terry Pratchett has stated that the (unnamed) Patrician in ''Discworld/TheColourOfMagic'' is Havelock Vetinari (but written by a worse writer), since a) he doesn't act much like Vetinari, b) it's a little dicey timeline-wise, and c) it's hard to believe that Vetinari could ''ever'', in ''any'' alternate timeline, have been an obese man who threw wild parties and ate candied jellyfish, many fans choose to believe that the earlier Patrician is one of Vetinari's predecessors (Snapcase or Winder).

* Some PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians fans choose to ignore The Lost Hero in its entirety.

*** Not to mention turned Robinton into a massive BlackHoleSue.

*** So no friendly DeusExMachina to break the status quo to have a happy ending?

* ''The Time Ships'' by StephenBaxter, a sequel to ''TheTimeMachine'' by HGWells.
* Anything after ''Tarzan the Terrible'' in the {{Tarzan}} series by EdgarRiceBurroughs.

* Anything published [[SonnyBono after 1922]] in general, for FanFic authors in the United States who are trying to [[PublicDomainCharacter stay legit]]:
** ''The Time Ships'' by StephenBaxter, a sequel to ''TheTimeMachine'' by HGWells.
** Anything after ''Tarzan the Terrible'' in the {{Tarzan}} series by EdgarRiceBurroughs.

** A VocalMinority of the fans who held on past the NewJediOrder, past [[SoBadItsHorrible the Swarm trilogy]], and up to that point in the Legacy of the Force series stopped with [[spoiler:the death of Mara Jade]].

* [[YourMileageMayVary Some fans]] of ''TheSilenceOfTheLambs'' admit the existence of a [[SoBadItsGood sequel]] called ''Hannibal,'' but there is virtually nobody who acknowledges the alleged [[SoBadItsHorrible prequel]] ''Hannibal Rising.''

* "The Mazarin Stone" (adapted by Arthur Conan Doyle from his play "The Crown Diamond") gets this treatment by ''{{Sherlock Holmes}}'' fans, for it is one of only two stories that are narrated in third-person, breaking the long tradition of Watson as the biographer (and the rare examples of Sherlock narrating his own adventures), with an {{Idiot Plot}} of trying to recover the stone - via the Villains showing off the stolen goods ''right in the Great Detective's home'' after he switched places with a wax dummy of himself. Granted the dummy was a {{Chekovs Gun}} since "The Empty House", but ''still''!

** The above troper has apparently spent little/no time in Pern fandom, especially RPGs, where heterosexual male green riders and the canonically-most-accurate bisexual male blue rider are roughly as rare as unicorns. (Female green riders are canonically straight, males are gay trending to CampGay.)

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** The radio series suggested that the characters escape via [[Main/TranslatorMicrobes phlebotinem]] and offers several alternate endings, including one where [[spoiler: Arthur is reunited with Fenchurch]] in Milliways, which just turns this troper's heart into [[SugarWiki/CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming melted]] [[Main/RomanticPlotTumor cheese]] (in a good way).

* The AnitaBlakeVampireHunter novels ended at ''Obsidian Butterfly''. Period. There were no mythical novels after that one in which IkeaErotica, CharacterDerailment, MyGirlIsASlut, and [[{{Wallbanger}} Wallbangers]] happened. Nope. Not at all.