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X, 2010, 2061, 3001 in Arabic numbers or their equivalents in Roman numerals (trying to avoid a complete spoiler) did NOT seem to make a series, either in terms of addition, number / letter patterns or anything else to me.

Have I missed something?

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Google a list of his works. I have to say, I'd only ever heard of the famous one. In your list of numerals, apart from the years you've given you should also have MM. This requires another single 'missing' numeral.

I don't know where you get your X from at the beginning, jazzlover, but otherwise your numbers are correct. Have you got the unclued entries in the top and bottom rows because they will explain a lot? This is not a mathematical series; the puzzle commemorates someone's anniversary.

I used X as a missing number example - eg X + 8 = 13.
I think I know the right answer, but was just querying the logic of the sequence.

Yes, I know, Nelson. I'd finished the puzzle before posting - I'd just like to discuss the logic. Seems to me, there's no logic for that sequence.

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MMI, MMMI, MMMMI would have worked better, would it not?

Sorry jazzlover, I was wrong with my numerals in last post.

Now I've looked again the sequence I have is:

MMX, MMLXI, MMMI.

So the missing number would go at the beginning and make a logical sequence.

Sorry, jazzlover, I don't see what you're getting at. My sequence seems perfectly logical, linked thematically.

Jazzlover, you need to see what the books are about to understand the logic. Eg, 2061 because it is about the return of Halley's comet, due in that year.

Thanks Orson, you've explained it now.

I haven't read the books (except one, as a child) and don't intend to, so that explains the weird sequence.

Happy again!

And what about the title?
I've come across various refs to his work being 'hard'but nothing definitive.