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Originally Posted by homealone
one of the things that stopped me buying new SciFi (and Fantasy) books, was that they moved away from being self contained to becoming trilogies & beyond - Mission Earth anyone, a decology!!!
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I believe that's actually spelled "Drekology" (or, at least, should be!)
But I know what you mean. I see a new work by a new writer and it's billed as "Book one in the XYZ trilogy" and my response is "oh gods, here we go again, another lot of turgid pap churned out to make money"
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Different stories within a 'world frame' set by an original story, Like Terry Pratchett, or the 'known space' stories by Larry Niven are ok
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Hear hear! If you haven't read him, may I recommend Allen Steele ("Clarke County, Space", "Lunar Descent" and "Orbital Decay" are three excellent works) he's well worthy of taking up the mantle of the "Hard SF" writers such as Clarke and Niven.
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I still buy some, if I can get them second hand, Red/Blue/Green Mars, was a recent purchase, for example at 80p each 
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I tried that series recently and was frankly disappointed with it. I got about half way through Blue and just gave up. It seemed that Kim Stanley Robinson can write good technical stuff, but doesn't know how to put together a good story, eg he casually tosses away a line about a child being the n-th one born on Mars, but the *first* one, which should have been a *major* event, doesn't even get a mention!)