Anticipated 2007 Releases

Thanks Mith. Ha, another Australian! It's coming out from Del Rey in the U.S. He sounds very interesting -- will check that one out.
 
I have already bagged Abercrombie's entertaining sequel, so I will have to wait an extra year for more Glokta goodness!

I am looking forward to Lynch's second instalment of the Gentlemen Bastards sequence and Barclay's final volume in his Ascendants duology.

Gary Wassner's Gemquest 4 looks great and I am intrigued by the new Tolkien. I seem to remember talk of his interpretation of Beowulf some time ago, did that ever see the light of day?

It doesn't look good for Caine Black Knife in 2007, Stover mentioned a massive re-write not so long ago... we can assume at least a 12 month turn-around from final MS?

Mieville has some YA due I believe?
 
Mieville's Un Lun Dun will be published by Del Rey in the US on 13 February 2007 and by Macmillan in the UK on 6 April 2007.

There's a brief excerpt on Amazon.co.uk:

The iron wheel began to spin, slowly at first, then faster and faster. The room grew darker. As the light lessened, so did the sound. Deeba and Zanna stared at each other in wonder. The noise of the cars and vans and motorbikes outside grew tinny ... The wheel turned off all the cars and turned off all the lamps. It was turning off London.
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OMG.

*squeals like a fanboy*

I think I am in love with Un Lun Dun.
 
There is now a listing on Amazon UK which says: Troy 3: Fall Of Kings by David Gemmell

Now I don't know if this was up before (he died) but I thought not. So I guess there is a chance that the book will actually come out as scheduled.

I'll ask Transworld.
 
IIRC, the book was 50% complete when he died, so his wife has stepped in to polish up the remaining drafts (apparently she was his first reader and editor on all of his books anyway) for publication.
 
Great news!

Not a book, rather a novella.

Memorare by Gene Wolfe.

It will appear in the April 2007 number of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Which will be a special Gene Wolfe issue.

On a side note, Memorare is the name of an old christian prayer.

Sounds amazing to me.
 
Snips Long discussion of GRR Martin waiting

Do you know how long we've had to wait for Gene Wolfe's Soldier of Sidon? 16 years is it? The second book, Soldier of Arete, came out in 1989. Sidon came out this year, in fact I'm very much hoping Santa will bring it.

J
 
JonLaidlow said:
Snips Long discussion of GRR Martin waiting

Do you know how long we've had to wait for Gene Wolfe's Soldier of Sidon? 16 years is it? The second book, Soldier of Arete, came out in 1989. Sidon came out this year, in fact I'm very much hoping Santa will bring it.

J
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Well if Sidon isn't the end, he better not make us wait another 16 years. :eek:

I am waiting for it to go into paper, but I am worried it might stay in trade and not go into mmpb. I have the other 2 in that format, and I hate it when they are mixed sizes. I will have to see if it goes small in the UK, which will also be an odd size, but closer to the other 2. Or I may have to just get the omnibus trade of the first 2.
 
Slushgod,

Interesting for you to bring up 'The Gunner's Mate' of Wolfe.

From a review of it:

Muriel is an attorney in New York, but when she vacations on a very secluded Caribbean island (it only has a hotel on it), she starts to feel at home. Most other people get creepy feelings, but Muriel gets good ones; so good, in fact, that she begs the hotel manager for a job, wanting only room and board (he wouldn't even have to pay her) in order to stay. But one of Henry Morgan's old pirates may be causing those feelings.

Now, this sounds good but I hope, in the end, Pirate's Freedom will not turn out to be another ghost story. I hold my hopes for something more similar to The Wizard Knight. The Gunner's Mate might be to Pirate's Freedom what the novella Golden City Far [from Starwater Strains collection] was for The Wizard Knight.
 
I think the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction will have an "All Gene Wolfe" issue next year too. Very nice!
 
Back to add:
The Terror, Dan Simmons, out Jan. 8
Arctic exploration, the Franklin expedition, two ships trapped in ice, "Madness, mutiny and cannibalism follow. And then there's the monstrous creature from the ice, the thing like a polar bear but many times larger, possessed of a dark and vicious intelligence."

Need I say more??? Preordered!

Holy crap! 784 hardcover pages! Nurse, get me my wrist braces! Or just go ahead and put both wrists in casts for the couple of months it'll take me to read this.
 
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Me too - signed as well. I think Simmons is fantastic.

Also ordered and looking forward to: China Mieville's Un Lun Dun, Gavriel Kay's Ysabel and Tad Williams' Shadowplay (all signed!)

I have a copy of Joe Abercrombie's Before they are Hanged which I'm determined to start over Xmas, and Hal Duncan's Ink which I have dipped into. Both look very good, though at first glance Ink looks just as mystifying as Vellum....

Would you say overall that 2007 looks (on paper) as if it will be a good year for SF/Fantasy?

To answer Ficus' earlier point about Gene Wolfe: at the moment the only copies we're getting of Latro/Sidon Wolfe are the imports from Orb/Tor. Don't think it'll get a UK print unless you know different, sadly. (Mine's a HB)

Hobbit
 
2007 looks like being an amazing year for SF&F. A new GRRM book (probably), a new Peter F. Hamilton, Alastair Reynolds' return to the Revelation Space universe, a new Richard Morgan (although I need to catch up with some of his other books first), a new Paul Kearney, Abercrombie and Lynch (sounds like a law firm) hopefully fulfilling the promise of their first books, new Erikson and Bakker books, Wilson delivering his sequel to the Hugo-winning Spin etc etc.

And of course there's the legends of the genre: new books from Gene Wolfe, Arthur C. Clarke (based on his last few solo novels, perhaps not that great though) and even JRR Tolkien.

All-in-all, I'd say 2007 is shapig up to be the best year in SF&F in some time.
 
Hobbit:

Would you say overall that 2007 looks (on paper) as if it will be a good year for SF/Fantasy?
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An awful lot of top mark authors have a book coming out in 2007 so I'd say yes. At the same time I would make the personal caveat that if Martin fails to get ADWD in for even a 2007 release, or Bakker doesn't release Aspect Emperor next year, that will put a serious damper on the year's quality in my book. These are my two most anticipated releases and we still do not know for certain when they will be published next year, if they even make it. The rest of the books are all interesting looking books that I will definitly pick up but it is better if they are sort of like the Christmas presents that are nice to get, but not as great if they were all your going to get and no big presents were in the sack.

The Tolkien book is great and any really new Tolkien book would surpass even Martin as my most anticipated release. But Children of Hurin is a story which I probably have read for 90% already so isn't as new or exciting to me as it may be for non-Silmarillion/Unfinished Tales readers.
 
Every year the list to buy and/or look at gets longer and longer. But the quality doesn't seem to be anything staggering.

Already have Kay, which was one of the big ones of the year for me. No stunning new discoveries. Not that last year had too many of those anyway. Bakker is probably the biggest and as it remains unconfirmed, the upcoming year is not a nailbiting with anticipation one for me.

Now if Ricardo Pinto were to actually add book III, Bakker becomes a definite and the slight rumors that Carlos Ruiz Zafon will publish his follow up to The Shadow of the Wind in '07, I might change my mind. Melanie Rawn actually getting Captal's Tower finished would be some incredible icing.

Still it looks to be a solid if not spectacular year. If Harry Potter is truly released in July of this coming year as many suspect, it will probably be the benchmark of the year for many. For me it will be interesting to see if she can save the series from its downward spiral since book four or whether it will crash and burn completely.

Jones's A Sword from Red Ice will also be interesting as fewer and fewer authors have been able to return to a setting many years after and do it well. Martin's big gap led to a book that was much worse than his last which I didn't think possible for an author of his abilities; Wolfe's Soldier of Sidon got raves from others no doubt, but I found it tepid and very much a "why bother".

Another slighter but still anticipated book for me is the possible publication of a new Paula Volsky.

In fact when I look at my list for 2007, the year might as well be subtitled "where the heck have you been?"
 
JohnH said:
...the slight rumors that Carlos Ruiz Zafon will publish his follow up to The Shadow of the Wind in '07...
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Do the rumors suggest publication in Spain, or also in English translation, U.S. publication?
 
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