With Scott Lynch's recent return to the 'net I have hopes for Republic of Thieves for 2010, although he said he's still reviewing it, found a glaring continuity error just last week which he had to fix. I've given up hope for ADwD for 2010 and put that on the maybe 2011 list, although Amazon's 2035 release date is looking like the most likely one for that. I also have hopes for Chris Wooding to do a follow up to Retribution Falls.
This is correct actually. The Desert Spear will be very long so in the US version nearly 700 pages, which means at least 750 to 800 in the UK version if I compare the first book in the two editions. Brett was talking about the manuscript being "half again the size of the 1st one".I was just wasting time on amazon, and the site *claims* that the publication date for the American edition of Mark Newton's Nights of Villjamur is June next year. It also claims that Peter Brett's The Desert Spear is huge, at almost 700 pages, though how they would possibly know I've no idea. [I do remember that it was to be a longer book, though.]
Villjamur's US release date for June next year is also correct I believe. There was a US publisher signed a while ago. So Newton has the US hardcover release in June, the UK paperback release in June, and the release of City of Ruin in the UK in June as well. Big month.
Re; Kraken
Has anyone heard what this might be about? Anything? I heard he was working on a science fiction a time back but also a non Bas Lag Fantasy.
What else? Orbit says Ian Banks has a new Culture novel out in September 2010. His last one, Transition, has just been released.
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P. Brett cut a lot from Painted Man to make it "publishable" - you see some of that and explanations in Great Bazaar which is essentially a compilation of the best of the cuts, so no wonder that once he had a hit, he was able to do a big bookOriginally Posted by Mithfânion
City of Ruin is on track as far as I know, done and in the back-and-forth editorial process now
Transition - after second read which I believe necessary since you really cannot appreciate the book on first read with all multiple threads and back and forth in time - is the best IMB has written since his great early 90's novels; still a bit too "look how clever I am" here and there to be truly at Use of Weapons level, but the best sff I read so far in 09; maybe that pay cut he talks in the Guardian interview and the critical bashing got him out of "coasting mode", back to his edgy great...
No idea about Kraken - as mentioned I was told it's under wraps for now, maybe someone better informed can help
Hey, new Culture? Really? Cool. [Just to clarify for any who care and do not know: Banks's latest, Transition, is not a novel of the Culture, though as per Suciul's comment above it is reportedly very good.] Matter didn't work for me the way it did for a lot of people, but I did enjoy parts of it and will totally buy a ticket back to the Culture when one is available, because no one does space opera in quite the way Banks does.
Oh, and I imagine there'll be a new Reynolds too, the first book in that huge ten book deal of his. Very curious about that. And didn't Gollancz buy another SF book a while back for 2010? I remember something about Simon Spanton including in the announcement that he bought the book within 24 hours of reading the first chapter.
Re Kraken: Given Mieville's perfectly justifiable views on spoilers, I'd expect information on this to be pretty hard to come by this early even if Tor UK wasn't keeping it locked away. I don't think we even know for sure that it's not a Bas-Lag book, though based on what Mieville said in the interview I read I don't think it is. He said something about his next being an urban fantasy, but didn't say anything about it being a Bas book. So my personal guess would be non-Bas urban fantasy, but, in true Mieville style, we shall find out in due course.
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The follow-up to Retribution Falls is apparently 75% complete as of last week and up for delivery before the end of the year. He's then got a little breathing room to pursue other projects before he looks at Book 3 in the series.
I am about 50% dubious on the Rothfuss in 2010. It sounds like the editing is requiring a lot more work than previously thought. I am genuinely surprised it's taken Lynch this long to not-finish RoT, when it looked like it was going to be finished six months ago. If we lost both Rothfuss and Lynch from 2010 I think that would be surprising.
OTOH, ADWD does, genuinely, look good for 2010 at the moment. I think the February/March dates being thrown around by GRRM's editor are a little optimistic though. Maybe summer.
Great news about Wooding. I think Lynch will make 2010 and even if RoT doesn't we still have Queen of the Iron Sands to keep us entertained.
I already have a 2011 release to look forward to with Abercrombie's Heroes.
Yup, almost finished with the rewrites, so everything is on track. Only the line edit and the copyedit to go.
GRRM has a blog post up about Warriors. Slightly unexpected was the news that the new Dunk 'n' Egg story is the longest in the series to date, which given that the first two were pretty long (about 100 pages each) is interesting.
They've also got the Tor cover up.
Full list of stories and authors:
"Stories from the Spinner Rack," by George R.R. Martin
"The King of Norway," by Cecilia Holland
"Forever Bound," by Joe Haldeman
"The Triumph," by Robin Hobb
"Clean Slate," by Lawrence Block
"And Ministers of Grace," by Tad Williams
"Soldierin'," by Joe Lansdale
"Dirae," by Peter S. Beagle
"The Eagle and the Rabbit," by Steven Saylor
"Seven Years from Home," by Naomi Novik
"The Custom of the Army," by Diana Gabaldon
"The Pit," by James Rollins
"Out of the Dark," by David Weber
"The Girls from Avenger," by Carrie Vaughn
"Ancient Ways," by S.M. Stirling
"Ninieslando" by Howard Waldrop
"Recidivist" by Gardner Dozois
"My Name is Legion," by David Morrell
"Defenders of the Frontier," by Robert Silverberg
"The Scroll," by David Ball
"The Mystery Knight," by George R.R. Martin
I'm assuming the first entry is an introduction/essay kind of thing.
Two items of note on Warriors
The cover is absolutely boring, it looks more like journal than an actual book with stories in it.
While not something new to note, I just sort of connected now that the Dunk n Egg story is being published in a Tor book when the main series is under a different publisher.
The Warriors anthology looks great, table of contents wise. I agree the cover is merely serviceable. The Martin, Hobb, Beagle, Lansdale, Williams, Haldeman & Holland would be the ones I'd anticipate the most, but that's the cool thing about anthologies, there are often surprises in there and stories from less well known writers ( or simply lesser novelists who work better in short form) that surpass those from the big names.
A must buy anyway, but I'm even more interested in the Swords & Dark Magic anthology due from Eos, edited by Anders & Strahan. No release date yet because the book hasn't been handed in, but it's supposed to be a very big book as well, according to Anders.
Will there also be a graphical novel version like the two others had? (Dunk'n'Egg)
The two previous ones were pretty cool.
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Swords & Dark Magic will be published by Eos in july 2010. This book looks awesome with stories by Steven Erikson, Joe Abercrombie, Scott Lynch, Michael Moorcock (new Elric story), Greg Keyes, CJ Cherryh, Glen Cook, James Enge, Gene Wolfe ....
Another bit of news that I welcome : Paizo Publishing (Planet Stories) is reprinting Walrus and the Warwolf by Hugh Cook in a trade paperback edition.
For those who don't know Hugh Cook he wrote a huge series in the 80's (Chronicles of an Age of Darkness). These books were never very succesfull but over the years they have become something of a cult classic. Walrus and the Warwolf is the best in the series and for me personally the best ever pirate fantasy ever written. It seems even China Mieville agrees because he will write a special foreword for this new edition. I think it's great to hear this novel will be back in print, especially for American readers since this cult novel was never published before in the US. I believe the book will come out early 2010.
Wasn't the name of the Anders & Strahan collection Conquering Swords?
It was, but Anders announced that they'd changed it in the comments on the Fantasy Book News & Reviews blog.
Nevermind.
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