 During one of his last televised interviews, he revealed that PBS once planned a production of "Mockingbird" as a follow-up to their 1979 film of Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Lathe of Heaven".Tevis also wrote "The Steps of the Sun" (1983), "The Queen's Gambit" (1983) and "The Color of Money" (1984), a sequel to "The Hustler".His short stories were collected in "Far from Home" in 1981.