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Unless they were officially published after the author's death.

Anyway, I have another tangentially related question. The same author has a short series with one novella and three short stories that precede it. How would the numbering look in such a case?

I would suggest
- if novella is significantly longer than short stories:
#0.1, #0.2, and #0.3 for short stories and #1 for the novella
- if they are all similar length:
#1, #2, #3 and #4
The first four novels should obviously use full integers as part of the series (#1, #2 and so on), but what happens with the fifth one. Should it be added as #5 even in the halfway finished status? Or a fraction, like #4.5 should be used? An even smaller number, like #4.1? Or maybe it shouldn't be added at all?
As the author in question was very prolific, there are not one but a few unfinished series left by her, neither of which are on GR yet, thus the question.