I expect that you are right. I thought at the time of the two sequels that McCaffrey had little interest in the plot any more, and turned them over to Nye to write. I also wondered whether McCaffrey had ever any interest in sequels at all, or whether she was just trying to satisfy her fans who were pleading for a sequel. A famous example is Fredric Brown's short story "Mitkey Rides Again", the sequel to his fan-favorite "The Star Mouse", which he wrote just to shut up his fans who had been clamoring for another Mitkey Mouse story for a half-dozen years. Nobody knows if Brown deliberately wrote "Mitkey Rides Again" to be a stinker, but his fans never again asked for more Mitkey stories. Or read Dean Koontz's thirty-years-later Afterword to his most popular novel, "The Watcher", about why he does not want to write a sequel to it despite getting so many requests for one.
Also, "Crisis on Doona" and "Treaty at Doona" were not copyrighted by McCaffrey or Nye, but by "Bill Fawcett & Associates". I would love to know what Fawcett's connection with them was. Was the whole idea of sequels to "Decision at Doona" Fawcett's, who was (and still is) a professional s-f "packager"?
"Crisis on Doona" and "Treaty at Doona" were written toward the beginning of Nye's s-f career. They would probably be better-written today.
I expect that you are right. I thought at the time of the two sequels that McCaffrey had little interest in the plot any more, and turned them over to Nye to write. I also wondered whether McCaffrey had ever any interest in sequels at all, or whether she was just trying to satisfy her fans who were pleading for a sequel. A famous example is Fredric Brown's short story "Mitkey Rides Again", the sequel to his fan-favorite "The Star Mouse", which he wrote just to shut up his fans who had been clamoring for another Mitkey Mouse story for a half-dozen years. Nobody knows if Brown deliberately wrote "Mitkey Rides Again" to be a stinker, but his fans never again asked for more Mitkey stories. Or read Dean Koontz's thirty-years-later Afterword to his most popular novel, "The Watcher", about why he does not want to write a sequel to it despite getting so many requests for one.
Also, "Crisis on Doona" and "Treaty at Doona" were not copyrighted by McCaffrey or Nye, but by "Bill Fawcett & Associates". I would love to know what Fawcett's connection with them was. Was the whole idea of sequels to "Decision at Doona" Fawcett's, who was (and still is) a professional s-f "packager"?
"Crisis on Doona" and "Treaty at Doona" were written toward the beginning of Nye's s-f career. They would probably be better-written today.
Fred Patten