Looking forward to 2009

[suciul]

I'm looking foward to Liviu's review on Interregnum. Liviu promised to read and review it asap over on the Fantasy Critic blog, so I've already got short-triggered on my wishlist.

Reading it now loving it so far though the full review won't come until late next week or two weeks from now since we are sort of booked till then

(Julian and Naamah are my reviews for early/mid next week, then hopefully this one or Jasmyn for late week, while NSO 2 and Osiris Ritual are for 2 weeks hence with the other of these two Interregnum and Jasmyn also)

But in a day or two a mini-review here and on Goodreads; Interregnum takes precedence over Best Served Cold which I got yesterday too

 

[Mithfânion]

New Locus list goes upto Marfch 2010:

http://www.locusmag.com/Resources/ForthcomingBooks.html

Well, ADWD will certainly not be out this year given Martin's latest message, so that is Spring 2010 possibly. But probably not, let's be realistic.

Wise Man's Fear has gone from 2008 to Spring 2010, which seems likely now that Rothfuss has finished the first draft and it will now go through editing.

Lynch III is now listed as March 2010 by Gollancz but you might say, what do they know, because that is the umpteenth time it has been rescheduled.

Horns by Joe Hill might be interesting. Wolfsangel seems like an interesting Gollancz debut in May.

JV Jones is still working on book 4 of her series and said a while ago she expected a first half of 2010 release for Watcher of the Dead.

Bakker's second book in the series was scheduled for 2010 last we heard. Really excited about that one.

I wonder if Abercrombie will have that Northern book for us next year, what with all the distractions of late.

Morgan's Dark Commands has now been moved forward to July 2010.

Hobb has Dragon Haven due in Spring 2010. And of course there is another Guy Kay book due next year, traditionally 3 years after the last one, and traditionally we don't know squat about what it will be about, or when precisely it will be out. More info to follow as we go along.

Locus says Brett's Desert Spear is due in March in the US, that would beat the UK release by nearly 2 months...

New book by Connie Willis in February, it's been a while.

Ghosts of Manhattan by George Mann looks cool from what I have seen sofar.

Lot of stuff on there from PS publishing which looks very interesting ( Jay Lake, Terry Dowling, David Moles ) but you never know when they will actually publish it.

William Horwood's Hyddenworld is one I am looking forward to. Years since he published a book.

I'd probably read Shadowrise when that comes out. The new Wolfe sounds pretty good, he's very much a hit or miss author.

METRO 2033 from a Russian author, due in December, has an interesting synopsis.

November is going to be a big month what with Vandermeer's Finch, Bear's By the Mountain bound, Scholes' Canticle, Chadbourn's Silver Skull which looks promising, King's under the Dome, Bullington's Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart and Cherie Priest's steampunk Boneshaker. The collection Northwest Passages from Barbara Roden also piqued my interest a while ago. Maybe Night Shade might actually finally publish Madness of Flowers as well.

 

[suciul]

I would not take everything above as granted - Orbit, Pyr and Baen for example are good with titles announced but others move them around a lot. Up to end 09 though I think the schedules are much more reliable than past 09 while the general outline is also good.

I have a list of (many) books planned for 09 as per 11/08 and it makes an interesting reading as opposed to actual dates, but it's quite accurate on the whole, so a 2010 list will be more reliable around 11/09 too...

Regarding Ghosts of Manhattan I read an excerpt and is fun - mobsters, steampunk and magic in alt-Manhattan cca 1925

Regarding Albion 1 (Skulls) by M. Chadbourn, I heard big raves so I may give it a try

I am very excited about (late 2010) Akers Horn of Ruins Pyr novel just announced since Heart of Veridon is such a great book (read it 2 or 3 months ago but since it's Aug UK, I have not posted the full rv)

Now that Veridon 2 is outlined with a superb outline from what I hear I cross my fingers that the Solaris situation will get solved and that book will get written too...

And maybe we get Evolutionary Void in 2010 for that matter and a new Brent Weeks (I know, I know but I just love his style) novel...

 

[PeterWilliam]

James Enge's Blood of Ambrose, seems to have been either panned, or mildly enjoyed, at best. I fall into the latter category. I thought it was a very interesting debut novel from a short story writer and cannot wait to see the continued development of the writer, and his work. To that end, I just saw this posted up over at Pyr.

 

[suciul]

James Enge's Blood of Ambrose, seems to have been either panned, or mildly enjoyed, at best. I fall into the latter category. I thought it was a very interesting debut novel from a short story writer and cannot wait to see the continued development of the writer, and his work. To that end, I just saw this posted up over at Pyr.

At FBC we have an interview with James Enge - since sffworld does not like external links to review blogs and with good reason imho, just go to our main page and check the Interview Index on the left hand side - and there is a chronology of all the Morlock stories, the 2 (!) upcoming novels, some info about them, where they fit...

 

[Garyfury]

New Locus list goes upto Marfch 2010:

http://www.locusmag.com/Resources/ForthcomingBooks.html

I'm hugely excited by Elizabeth Moon's Oath of Fealty off that list, which apparently is her return to Paksenarrion's world.

 

[Mithfânion]

Have to say that the synopsis for The Crooked Way sounds very coopl. I'll probably pick it up now.

MORLOCK AMBROSIUS RETURNS!

Travelling alone in the depths of winter, Morlock Ambrosius (bitterly dry drunk, master of all magical makers, wandering swordsman, and son of Merlin Ambrosius and Nimue Viviana) is attacked by an unknown enemy.

To unmask his enemy and end the attacks he must travel a long crooked way through the world: past the soul-eating Boneless One, past a subtle and treacherous master of golems, past the dragon-taming Khroi, past the predatory cities of Sarkunden and Aflraun, past the demons and dark gnomes of the northern woods.

Soon he will find that his enemy wears a familiar face, and that the duel he has stumbled into will threaten more lives than his own, leaving nations shattered in its chaotic wake.

And at the end of his long road waits the death of a legend.

 

[Mithfânion]

True convergence of interesting books coming out near November for me:

Certain to buy:

Finch-Vandermeer
Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart-Bullington
By the Mountain Bound- Bear( a prequel, which seems more interesting to me)
Canticle-Ken Scholes
Madness of Flowers ( Night shade says it will be out in October at last)
The Windup girl- Bacigalupi
Eclipse III anthology
Northwest Passages-Barbara Roden ( interesting looking collection)
This Crooked Way-James Enge
The Silver Skull-Chadbourn

Possibly also buying:

Leviathan-Westerfeld
Under the Dome-King ( I still have so much King to read, including The Stand)
The very best SF & Fantasy of 2009- edited by Rich Horton

 

[Cranky Hamster]

Obviously I should have posted in this thread rather than trying to start my own, which I will take as a lesson for next time.

In any event, it hit my radar pretty late, but I'm looking forward to Cherie Priest's Boneshaker, which is due out at the end of this month. I have it on preorder. It doesn't seem to have attracted that much attention around here, so I guess I will be reporting back on whether it lives up to expectations once it arrives.

I'm also looking forward to the last of the Joe Pitt books (due in/around early Oct., IIRC), although I'll be sad when they're over and I rather strongly suspect our befanged antihero is not going to survive past the end of book five. But we'll see.

Bacigalupi's Windup Girl is another one I'm excited about. Loved his short fiction, so if his full-length work is comparably good I'll be thrilled. I might have a problem with sky-high expectations on this one, though, and am going to try to control myself before reading the actual book.

 

[suciul]

In any event, it hit my radar pretty late, but I'm looking forward to Cherie Priest's Boneshaker, which is due out at the end of this month. .

Robert loved it - he wrote a while the review for FBC (tbp 21st I think) and he even made me want to read his arc that he is mailing me despite that zombies are not my cup of tea...

 

[Rob B]

Bacigalupi's Windup Girl is another one I'm excited about. Loved his short fiction, so if his full-length work is comparably good I'll be thrilled. I might have a problem with sky-high expectations on this one, though, and am going to try to control myself before reading the actual book.

I'm into this one right now and liking it. His style is good and the setting is good too.

Leviathan-Westerfeld

I just started this today, only one (short) chapter in so can't really tell. However, I've liked most, if not all, of what I read by Westerfeld so I'm hoping this will follow suit.

 

[Julian]

Finch-Vandermeer
Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart-Bullington
By the Mountain Bound- Bear( a prequel, which seems more interesting to me)
Canticle-Ken Scholes
Madness of Flowers ( Night shade says it will be out in October at last)
The Windup girl- Bacigalupi
Eclipse III anthology
Northwest Passages-Barbara Roden ( interesting looking collection)
This Crooked Way-James Enge
The Silver Skull-Chadbourn

Some good titles here. I'll certainly get:

Finch
Canticle
This Crooked Way

Thanks for pointing out The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart, by the way. I've never heard of Bullington and this would have passed right by me - looks interesting, though!

 

[PeterWilliam]

Thanks for pointing out The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart, by the way. I've never heard of Bullington and this would have passed right by me - looks interesting, though!

Aldarion already has a review of the book up on his blog and possibly some discussion of it somewhere around here.

 

[suciul]

Rats and the Ruling Sea (Redick 2) is coming out next month and it is the most anticipated title of the Fall in fantasy for me - should get an arc in a week or two in time to add my impressions for the review, but already Robert read it and wrote the review and it seems to be excellent, improving on the debut which i thought great too.

I am curious about Canticle too since I was not impressed by Lamentation but liked it enough to read this one - again we have the review scheduled (sept 23) and Robert loved it though for this one and Boneshaker (sept 21 rv) I won't get them in time to add my thoughts.

For me another big novel turned out to be Her Fearful Symmetry by A. Niffeneger of TTW fame which I will review either next week or for its pub week and is everything a ghost story with weird characters should be and more...

 

[Julian]

Aldarion already has a review of the book up on his blog and possibly some discussion of it somewhere around here.

Thanks for the helpful links, Peter

 

[Winter]

True convergence of interesting books coming out near November for me:

Certain to buy:

Finch-Vandermeer
Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart-Bullington
By the Mountain Bound- Bear( a prequel, which seems more interesting to me)
Canticle-Ken Scholes
Madness of Flowers ( Night shade says it will be out in October at last)
The Windup girl- Bacigalupi
Eclipse III anthology
Northwest Passages-Barbara Roden ( interesting looking collection)
This Crooked Way-James Enge
The Silver Skull-Chadbourn

Going to be a busy few months. Finch, Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart, Canticle, and Madness of Flowers are all at the top of my list and I still have books to pick that were released in the past few months.

 

[Winter]

Thanks for the helpful links, Peter

If you haven't already gotten to it: Larry's review is here. The discussion can be found here.

 

[Julian]

If you haven't already gotten to it: Larry's review is here. The discussion can be found here.

Thank you!

I hadn't gotten to it at all, yet! (Although - I'm being serious here - I did do a short Google search on "Aldarion's blog". Not helpful.)

Now I have, though...

 

[PeterWilliam]

Thank you!

I hadn't gotten to it at all, yet! (Although - I'm being serious here - I did do a short Google search on "Aldarion's blog". Not helpful.)

Now I have, though...

Ah, sorry about that. When you click on a poster's name, the drop down reveals a homepage, if they have one. I've just noticed that Aldarion's is OF Blog of the Fallen and assumed that Aldarion is Larry from OFBotF.

 

[Julian]

Ah, sorry about that. When you click on a poster's name, the drop down reveals a homepage, if they have one. I've just noticed that Aldarion's is OF Blog of the Fallen and assumed that Aldarion is Larry from OFBotF.

Weird. I tried it on my name, and got a blog I'd written for the US elections 2008. Extraordinary! How does "it" do it? I certainly never linked the two...

Before I know it, you'll all find out I'm a man with three huge breasts and a midget hamster, living in Poughkeepsie (oh God, don't mention Felix).

Darn! There goes my anonimity!

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Back on track:

Madness of Flowers does look interesting, too. If you've a bent for Vandermeer, and, perhaps, M. John Harrison.

Only thing is, I know nothing of the author, except that he's written Trial of Flowers before. Perhaps I should get both...