Anticipated 2007 Releases

Why does it bother you so much? It's only a book, and the only obligation Martin has to finish it is to his publishers, who seem to be fairly permitting of him. If he takes another year to write the book, so be it; I'll knock a couple more books off my to-read pile while I wait.
 
That's a strange question. Why does it bother me at all? Because I'm eager to read the next book. The last one had a lot of cliffhangers and I really enjoy his characters and his overall story. I want to read more of it. Sooner rather than later. Of course it bothers me when the books is delayed again and again.

Is that really so difficult to understand? Seems to me that you might as well ask why are you not bothered if you are really a fan of the series?
 
It's a question of the relative importance of the thing. Compared to many things in life, the time I have to wait before I can read a book I enjoy is not important enough to complain about. Less so when I can find similar enjoyment in other books which are already or are continuously becoming available.

Look at the length of the list of book releases. I can honestly say that no matter how long it takes for A Dance with Dragons to come out, I will always during that wait have something good to read.

Believe me, I am eager to continue the series. If it came out sooner, I would be happy about it. But if it does not, well, it's not that important.

I suppose you're right, there. I'm not a fanatic, more of an enthusiast.
 
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Mithfânion said:
Wert

If GRRM finishes ADWD in february I will come back here and eat crow.

But he won't. He will not finish before the Summer and likely later than that. In fact I wouldn't be at all surprised if he stil has it on his plate this time next year. And then to consider that he already had 50% finished, which he cut from AFFC. He's only ever had to write half a novel and even that takes him forever. That second half will not even be published next year IMO.

I don't know if you were there for the whole five year wait for AFFC but if you were you'd be hard pressed to be this forgiving.
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I bought ASoS on the day of release in August 2000, so was there for every minute of it. I survived. When GRRM said back in September 2001 he was abandoning the five-year gap and starting from scratch, I knew we were in for a long haul (admittedly not how long). For any writer, abandoning a large amoung of work and starting again is a soul-destroying business. I feel like that if I write a long post and accidentally delete it before posting, so God knows how soul-destroying it was to junk several hundred pages and then not being able to reuse them at all.

Again: the material that GRRM cut from AFFC for ADWD was not 50% of the book. If it was, than AFFC would have only been about 500 pages long at the most. It was more like 35%, maybe 40% at a stretch. And he went back and rewrote most of those to make them better and fit in with the rest of the book. The only characters he hasn't touched, as far as I can tell, are Arya and Asha. Okay, it's probably not quite as much work as starting those chapters from scratch, but it was still a lot of work and not the simple, "Taking ages to write half a book," explanation that critics always resort to. GRRM once or twice used the term 'half' which he shouldn't have done, agreed, but he probably felt that 'half' was simpler to say than 'more than a third, less than half'.

EDIT: This thread has been dragged off-topic, so I suggest continuing this debate in the GRRM forum.
 
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Anybody know when we might expect Matthew Woodring Stover's next Caine book? I heard book 3 was supposed to be entitled Caine Black Knife, but haven't seen anything since.
 
Most of what I read I wait for the paper version, so completely new books in 2007 are still about a year away for me.

What I am waiting for to go into paper in 2007:

Demon and the City by Liz Williams
Soldier of Sidon, by Gene Wolfe
Eifelheim, by Michael Flynn
Blindsight, by Peter Watts
The Harsh Cry of the Heron, by Lian Hearn


Brand new in 2007

For a Few Demons More, by Kim Harrison
from UK in PB, rather than the HC in the US

The Harlequin, by Laurell K. Hamilton (god knows why)
Next ABVH book

Broken Kings by Robert Holdstock
UK HC

Bone Song, by John Meaney
UK HC

Rome Burning, by Sophia McDugall
UK

The next book in the Retrieval Artist series by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Non-Genre books:

The next new and old book in Donna Leon's Guido Brunetti mystery series set in Venice

The next IJ Parker book set in the Sugawara Akitada medieval Japan mystery series

City of Spies, by Simon Levack
Aztec Mysteries (UK)

The next book in the Liquor series by Poppy Z. Brite

And of course those that don't really have a due date:

A Dance with Dragons, GRRM
A Stone Dance with Chameleons, Ricardo Pinto
 
I think I read somewhere isobelle carmody is going to publish the next book in the obernewtyn series and also possibly the next and hopefully the last in the series for legendsong in 2007.
 
Anybody know when we might expect Matthew Woodring Stover's next Caine book?
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Stover has been struggling with it for years. There is no release date or knowledge if it will come out, but it doesn't look like it will come out in 2007.
 
I want to pick up Rome Burning. Romanitas had a lot of flaws, but I found the story reasonably interesting. If she improves a bit more as a writer (she's still only 25, I believe) McDougall could be a major author in the future.
 
Hey Everyone! I’ve been lurking around here for the past eight months or so; you guys have a great forum. Quick correction: The Tower of Shadows is going to be released on December 12th, 2006 rather than during the first quarter of 07.

Right now I’m reading Un Lun Dun. In terms of sales, this will probably be China's biggest book yet. He's in new territory but his voice is unmistakable. Many YA readers don’t select books based on genre, so I expect Un Lun Dun will introduce cutting edge fantasy to many teenagers (and parents) who will then (hopefully) make contact with his Bas Lag trilogy, a great launching platform for discovering more examples of innovated speculative fiction.
 
If Un Lun Dun does that Drew Bowling, that would be excellent exposure for Spec fic. I like the thought of a youngster next picking up something like PSS or King Rat, ooooh what roads they could be led down!!!
 
Mithfânion said:
John,

there's a section missing ( Q-V).
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I'd be happy to but apparently in the midst of posting the list, my server became persona non grata here. If I think to bring the list to work next week, I'll try again.
 
That would be Mr. Drew Bowling of "Tower of Shadows," coming out from Del Rey in the U.S., perhaps? If so, we give you leave to provide us with a 2007 schedule of publications. :)

P.S. Thanks John, if you can get to it. Not that I can keep up with all the titles these days.
 
You caught me, KatG. ;) JohnH’s list looks good, but plowing through Un Lun Dun reminds me that China Mieville has completed his first science fiction novel (it’s actually been finished for quite some time now), which may or may not come out in 2007. Del Rey wanted to publish his YA book first.
 
Anticipated 2007 books?

Count me in with a single one.

Pirate's Freedom by Lord Gene Wolfe.

No one knows anything at all about the plot of this book?
 
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Rob, it matters not but for "the peace of my mind", to quote Sir Wolfe. :)

"A fantasy historical novel" is all we know so far.
 
Theodor said:
Anticipated 2007 books?

Count me in with a single one.

Pirate's Freedom by Lord Gene Wolfe.

No one knows anything at all about the plot of this book?
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The only thing I know is that it's going to be a "true blue pirate story". That was on Tor's (?) blog.
 
So wait, we've got pirates and zombies as really popular now. (Which is grand, as I like both.) Any predictions on what's next?

Anybody know anything about Cameron Rogers' "The Music of Razors"? It sounds very interesting.
 
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