Looking forward to 2009

Kesterel said:
The Shadow Queen by Anne Bishop (April)
The White Road by Lynn Flewelling (September?)

I don't have much time to read anymore, and even less money with which to buy books D=
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The Shadow Queen is already out in the US. It was one of mine to look forward to this year also. Had to get it the day it came out. If you like(or love) as I do the original trilogy this one does not dissapoint.
 
Rob B said:
That is really cool. I am looking forward to getting the US copy in the next month or so, the cover is already up on BN.com and has a great quote from Hobbit's review

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How many books have quotes from sffworld? and do you have more pictures? That's so cool.
 
Quite often they're on the inside, Seak.

It's really nice actually.

Erm: US copy of Mary Gentle's Ilario has one; so too the UK edition;
Pyr's Keeping It Real by Justina Robson has one on the back, I believe.
Esslemont's Night of Knives (UK edition) has one; the UK paperback edition of David Anthony Durham's Acacia one too.

Perhaps we should start a thread for such things? I'm always concerned by such things as we're seen to be bragging, which isn't my style at all: but it is a lovely surprise to have it pointed out to us from time to time.

Mark
 
I've been reading the discussion on Peter Brett's blog and there's some bad news there. Apparently The Desert Spear in August was too good to be true, a year after The Painted Man. The US and UK publishers seem to be deciding they will be going for a worldwide release. Bad news for a waiting reader of course, since The Painted Man was only just released in the US last week and usually publishers are not keen on releasing two books of the same series in one year. Undoubtedly Harper Voyager could release this year if they wanted to even though Brett was slightly overdue with his manuscript, but whereas Brett mentioned that the book would probably come out a few months later than August, the worldwide release date idea means that the date could be pushed into 2010. Brett did say he would not be happy with that, but that it was out of his hands. Hopefully there will be good news about a '09 release, and soon. The book would be big though, the manuscript was half again as big as Painted Man, which was quite sizeable as it is.

In better news, a book I have not heard mention on this board is The Strain, first book in the Strain trilogy, written by famous film director Guillermo Del Toro. Advance reviews are very positive and the book is due in June. It's supposed to do for Vampires what World War Z by Brooks did for Zombies. Looks great I have to say, and I'm not much interested in vampires generally.

Synopsis:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Strain-Guil...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1237640708&sr=1-1
 
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Ha... the books I was most looking forward to this year:

A Dance with Dragons
The Wise Man's Fear
The Republic of Thieves
The Cold/ Dark Commands
The Desert Spear
*Best Served Cold*

I am going to have to grow the ability to be patient...
 
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Hobbit said:
Quite often they're on the inside, Seak.

It's really nice actually.

Erm: US copy of Mary Gentle's Ilario has one; so too the UK edition;
Pyr's Keeping It Real by Justina Robson has one on the back, I believe.
Esslemont's Night of Knives (UK edition) has one; the UK paperback edition of David Anthony Durham's Acacia one too.

Perhaps we should start a thread for such things? I'm always concerned by such things as we're seen to be bragging, which isn't my style at all: but it is a lovely surprise to have it pointed out to us from time to time.

Mark
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Sorry to continue this off-topicness, but I would love if you started a thread about this. I really don't think it's bragging, it's just cool and I think it makes all members feel a sense of pride.:)
 
Best Served Cold (I actually KNOW that's coming out this year) and I'm interested in the Chris Wooding book (name escapes me at the moment), but it has been reviewed enthusiastically here by Werthead.
 
Hobbit said:
Quite often they're on the inside, Seak.
It's really nice actually.

Erm: US copy of Mary Gentle's Ilario has one; so too the UK edition;
Pyr's Keeping It Real by Justina Robson has one on the back, I believe.
Esslemont's Night of Knives (UK edition) has one; the UK paperback edition of David Anthony Durham's Acacia one too.

Perhaps we should start a thread for such things? I'm always concerned by such things as we're seen to be bragging, which isn't my style at all: but it is a lovely surprise to have it pointed out to us from time to time.

Mark
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Sorry to continue this off-topicness, but I would love if you started a thread about this. I really don't think it's bragging, it's just cool and I think it makes all members feel a sense of pride.:)
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OK: I'm persuaded, Seak.

I've set a new thread up HERE. Feel free to join in!

Mark
 
You're referring to the post on Fantasy hotlist, I guess, but that is in respect of Bantam, Scott's US publisher. Gollancz may publish earlier, as has been the case with his earlier books, but I'm certain it won't be until 2010 at the earliest, which is why I mentioned the date was unconfirmed in my post.
 
Yes, Gollancz are the 'primary' publishers of Scott Lynch's work. I don't know if Bantam just have the reprint rights (and have to wait for Gollancz to get their stuff together to publish the book first) or an altogether separate deal. Pat's post suggests not. However, Gollancz, like Voyager for Hobb and GRRM, likely do have greater leeway with turnaround times due to their smaller print runs for the much smaller British market.

Whether Gollancz would be able to publish RoT a whopping six months or more before the USA (which is what a September/October release would mean) is another matter. I might enquire further, although like most publishers Gollancz generally don't like to confirm or deny anything ahead of official announcements.
 
I noticed I have absolutely huge book bags due in July & November.

For July I am set to order:

For certain:

Nights of Villjamur-Newton
Best served cold-Abercrombie
Dragon Keeper-Hobb
Johannes Cabal-Howard
Julian Comstock-Wilson
Green-Lake
The Strain-Del Toro/Hogan
New Space Opera II anthology
Oxford Inklings
Arda Reconstructed-Kane
Avilion-Holdstock
Merlin's Wood-Holdstock
The Motley Man-Duguay
Push of the Sky-Camille Alexa
Legend of Sigurd & Gudrun-Tolkien
Fall of Thanes-Ruckley

Possible additions:

Norse Code-Van Eekhourt
House of Suns US edition-Reynolds
Dragons of ordinary farm-Tad Williams

And presuming that Night Shade will finally have stuff in order by then, which is doubtful since they still haven't published a book since November, I'd also order Strahan's Best Fantasy & SF vol. 3 and Lebbon's post-apocalyptic set in Wales & England, Bar None.

Plus I've been waiting for some time for PS publishing to finally release Witcover's collection "Everland and other stories", which has been due for months now.

This excluded 3 or 4 Marvel graphic novels due in June which I will also be ordering.

Then for November another convergence:

By the Mountain bound-Bear ( a prequel to the 1st book which seems muich more what I am looking for)
Canticle-Ken Scholes
Boneshaker-Priest
Finch-Vandermeer
The Silver Skull-Chadbourn
Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart-Bullington
Under the Dome-Stephen King
Acacia vol. II: The Other lands ( due mid September already)
 
I'm reading a PDF draft of Finch right now and I am enjoying it quite a bit. Very different in style and tone from VanderMeer's other Ambergris stories. This is a murder mystery (with quite a few twists, among them being the Gray Caps now having controlled Ambergris for 6 years) and the prose is clipped, not baroque or confessional like City of Saints and Madmen and Shriek were. This is also shaping up to be a shorter novel, probably under 300 pages in hardcover form. However, 1/3 in, this might be my favorite story of his. It will depend on how it unfolds. Strange that I would praise it that much, since many murder mystery stories don't usually appeal to me. Can't say much more about it until October, though, as I promised not to reveal spoilers (the bit above is in the book description, so I could reveal that).
 
My pre-order list is also beginning to take on alarming proportions. I'm really looking forward to:

Jacqueline Carey - Santa Olivia
Jacqueline Carey - Namaah's Kiss
Elizabeth Bear - Ink and Steel (mass market)
Elizabeth Bear - Heaven and Hell (mass market)
Elizabeth Bear - Chill
Elizabeth Bear - By the Mountain Bound (damn, that woman is scarily productive though I don't complain)
Daniel Abraham - An Autumn War (mass market)
Pierre Pevel - The Cardinal's Blades
China Mieville - The City and the City
Galen Beckett - The Magicians and Mrs. Quent (mass market)
Juliet Marillier - Heir to Sevenwaters (mass market)
Chris Wooding - Retribution Falls
 
Santa Olivia's caught my eye and I'm still going back and forth on Lamentation -- will probably pick it up in paperback. If people who are reading either of those books could share their opinions when they get around to 'em, I for one would be grateful.
 
I don't think anyone has mentioned Michael Scott's third Nicholas Flamel book, The Sorceress. That comes out in less than a week.
 
British fans can now scrub Republic of Thieves for 2009. Gollancz have moved the release date back to early 2010 and couldn't publish it any sooner if he turned the MS in tomorrow. It's also highly unlikely, but not impossible, to hit the USA in 2009 either, again depending on the final turn-in day.

Publication of The Wise Man's Fear is dependent on how the editing process goes, but at the moment looks like it will be 2010. If DAW get unseemingly excited it's not impossible they'll bring it out in the USA in 2009, but I'd say this is fairly unlikely.
 
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