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Thieves World is very different. It was developed as a "shared universe" ... it's meant to be a collection of stories and novels by different authors using the same world, social rules, characters, etc.
By graverobbing I specifically mean using well known characters, like Holmes or James Bond, and writing them new adventures. They can even be done by otherwise decent authors, as with the Gardner Bonds ... it's NOT a Bond book unless Fleming wrote it ... I feel the same way about the vast mountain of books based on Star Trek. (I have a signed copy of Imzadi by Peter David that I still haven't read ... his dad was a friend of one of my friend's dads, and I usually ended up sitting next to him at the Passover Seders at my friend's house, and it was one of those "Oh, you like the Star Trek, I'll get you my boy's book".)
I have read some of these sorts of books. I admit it, but am not proud of it ... Brian Herbert raping his father's literary legacy has been particularly painful, but strangely not as painful as God-Emperor of Dune.
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