The Line of Beauty brings to an end this sequence of books in which he has consciously explored gay identity and its fight for recognition.
But now it features as an emblematic moment in Modernity Britain, the latest in the historian's acclaimed sequence of books about postwar life, Tales of a New Jerusalem.
Koza shared his programming experiences in a sequence of books beginning with Genetic Programming: On the Programming of Computers by Means of Natural Selection (1992).
The latest Faber catalogue does contain one worth reading though, for Adam Mars-Jones's novel Cedilla, the next in the sequence of books begun by Pilcrow.
He wrote several named series of these: notably the Deathworld series (three titles, starting in 1960), the Stainless Steel Rat books (12 titles, from 1961), and the sequence of books about Bill, the Galactic Hero (seven titles, from 1965).
That he is gone so prematurely saddens me, but I remain more committed than ever to finding readers for his extraordinary sequence of books about ghosts of footballers past and ghosts of prime ministers present.
Vampires had a resurgence in the mid-noughties with Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series, a sequence of books for teenage girls dealing with the pressures of premature sexualisation in Western culture.
It was a prose style that he further developed into a brilliantly effective instrument of self-expression in The Smoking Diaries, the acclaimed sequence of books that brought him a new and wider audience in recent years.
The Last Cigarette, his latest, is the third in a sequence of books that, in their low key and lugubrious fashion, have made the diary form into something startlingly new.
And last week a book published as four "enhanced ebooks", which didn't have just words on a page, but video footage and sound and blogs and flickering images as well, a book (or sequence of books) you could even pay for "with a tweet", made it onto the Booker longlist.
