Del Rey Internet Newsletter, March (long)
Ellen Key Harris
|REY| The DEL REY BOOKS Internet Newsletter
Number 26 (March 1995)
WHAT'S NEW IN THE STORES===========================================
WITCHES' BREW by Terry Brooks. Hardcover. (OL)
THE TANGLE BOX by Terry Brooks. Paperback. (OL)
The _Magic Kingdom_ series is much lighter than the epic-fantasy Shannara
series, featuring, for example, a Court Scribe who by magical mishap has
been turned into a Soft-Coated Wheaten Terrier--with hands. The
characters are average-Joe types, and the plots cross between our own
world and a magic world. The series (MAGIC KINGDOM FOR SALE--SOLD, THE
BLACK UNICORN, and WIZARD AT LARGE) would be a good introduction to light
fantasy for nonfantasy readers, especially younger ones.
In THE TANGLE BOX, Terry Brooks sends ex-lawyer, now-king Ben Holiday back
to the Magic Kingdom of Landover, where an exiled wizard and his crabby
bird companion beg Ben to be allowed to remain there. Ben agrees, despite
the warnings from his doglike Court Scribe and the wizened old wizard
Questor Thews. But the exiled wizard is under the spell of a dark
sorcerer, and Ben himself gets entrapped in THE TANGLE BOX.
In WITCHES' BREW, former Chicago lawyer--now High King of the Magic
Kingdom of Landover--Ben Holiday's daughter is born, and, not
surprisingly, she has magic powers. But then Mistaya disappears, taken by
the witch Nighshade. Ben has to battle seven champions, each in a
different form, to get her back. But something about the nature of his
opponents makes Ben wonder just who the champions came from...
>> SAMPLE CHAPTERS AVAILABLE ONLINE
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THE MASTERS' GAMBIT by Jack McKinney. Paperback. (EKH)
The Robotech Masters return to Earthspace to reclaim the essential
Protoculture Matrix, only to find the Matrix inaccessible and the computer
intelligence that can retrieve it "repurposed" as EVE, a guidance-
counselorlike AI media personality responsible for an entire postwar
generation. Meanwhile, a group of young, cynical Tokyo hackers are sworn
to subvert the world's most powerful computers--including EVE--and it
seems that a renegade Robotech scientist has allied himself with the
humans set on stopping the Masters in their quest. Grand-scale adventure
sf based on the popular Robotech animated series.
>> SAMPLE CHAPTER AVAILABLE ONLINE
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THE HUNTER'S HAUNT by Dave Duncan. Paperback. (VC)
If you like charming mountain inns, intriguing characters from diverse
lands, tall tales, and appalling truths, check into THE HUNTERS' HAUNT.
Omar the storyteller takes refuge there during a blizzard--but it's the
weather inside that's frightful. As Omar and his fellow travelers huddle
by the fire, they learn what a lot they have in common--and how much each
of them has to lose if Omar's stories get out of hand...
This is a sequel--or companion novel--to Duncan's THE REAVER ROAD,
which introduced Omar the Storyteller. Fans of Duncan's epic fantasy
series _The Seventh Sword_, _A Man of His Word_, and _A Handful of Men_
will find these books a little lighter and just as funny.
>> SAMPLE CHAPTER AVAILABLE ONLINE
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ROBOTECH: SOUTHERN CROSS, METAL FIRE, THE FINAL NIGHTMARE by Jack
McKinney. Paperback. (EKH)
A value-priced three-in-one volume in our successful _Robotech_ series.
These three volumes follow the adventures of Dana Sterling, half-human,
half-Zentraedi student and soldier on a world where humans live in uneasy
peace with the Zentraedi, their ex-enemies. Braver than most humans, but
also more screwed up, Dana finds herself and her elite Hovertank unit
right in the middle of the struggle between the predatory Robotech Masters
and the humans of Earth.
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STAR WARS TRILOGY THREE-IN-ONE VOLUME by George Lucas, Donald F. Glut, and
James Kahn. Trade paperback. (EKH)
A trade-paperback edition of our three Star Wars trilogy novelizations: A
NEW HOPE, THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, and RETURN OF THE JEDI.
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THE HAN SOLO ADVENTURES THREE-IN-ONE VOLUME by Brian Daley. Trade
paperback. (EKH)
A trade-paperback edition of our three Han Solo adventure novels: HAN
SOLO AT STARS' END, HAN SOLO'S REVENGE, and HAN SOLO AND THE LOST LEGACY.
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THE LANDO CALRISSIAN THREE-IN-ONE VOLUME by L. Neil Smith. Trade
paperback. (EKH)
A trade-paperback edition of our three Lando Calrissian adventure novels:
LANDO CALRISSIAN AND THE MINDHARP OF SHARU, LANDO CALRISSIAN AND THE
FLAMEWIND OF OSEON, and LANDO CALRISSIAN AND THE STARCAVE OF THONBOKA.
DEL REY DATA=======================================================
March 1995:
WORLDWAR: TILTING THE BALANCE by Harry Turtledove (SF)
Second volume of the _Worldwar_ series; 345:38997-2
Hardcover, 496 pp; cover art by Stan Watts; OL, editor
IN THE EMPIRE OF SHADOW by Lawrence Watt-Evans (SF/F)
Book Two of _The Three Worlds Trilogy_; 345-37246-8
Trade; 368 pp; cover art by Peter Peebles; SWS, editor
DIAMOND MASK by Julian May (SF)
Volume II of _The Galactic Milieu Trilogy_; mass-market edition of Knopf
5/94 hardcover edition; 345-36248-9
Paperback, 448 pp; cover art by Mark Harrison; SS, editor
THE HIGH QUEEN by Nancy McKenzie (F)
Sequel to THE CHILD QUEEN; 345-38245-5
Paperback, 320 pp; cover art by Romas; VC, editor
CODE OF THE LIFEMAKER by James P. Hogan (SF)
Prequel to THE IMMORTALITY OPTION; 345-30549-3
Repackage, 405 pp; cover art by John Berkey; EKH, editor
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April 1995:
WITCHES' BREW by Terry Brooks (F)
A _Magic Kingdom of Landover_ novel; 345-38701-5
Hardcover, 320 pp; cover art by Keith Parkinson; OL, editor
THE TANGLE BOX by Terry Brooks (F)
A _Magic Kingdom of Landover_ novel; mass-market edition of our 5/94
hardcover; 345-38775-9
Paperback, 352 pp; cover art by Keith Parkinson; OL, editor
THE MASTERS' GAMBIT by Jack McKinney (SF)
The latest book in the 20-volume Robotech series; 345-38775-9
Paperback, 288 pp; cover art from Robotech archives; EKH, editor
THE HUNTER'S HAUNT by Dave Duncan (F)
Set in the same world as THE REAVER ROAD; 345-38459-8
Paperback, 304 pp; cover art by Romas; VC, editor
CLASSIC STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE, THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, RETURN OF THE JEDI
(SF)
Trade edition of our three-in-one volume; 345-34806-0
Trade paperback reissue, 640 pp; cover art by John Berkey; EKH, editor
CLASSIC STAR WARS: THE HAN SOLO ADVENTURES (SF)
Trade edition of our three-in-one volume; 345-39442-9
Trade paperback, 576 pp; cover art by William Schmidt; EKH, editor
CLASSIC STAR WARS: THE LANDO CALRISSIAN ADVENTURES (SF)
Trade edition of our three-in-one volume; 345-39443-7
Trade paperback, 416 pp; cover art by William Schmidt; EKH, editor
ROBOTECH: SOUTHERN CROSS, METAL FIRE, THE FINAL NIGHTMARE (SF 3-in-1)
Three-in-one of books 7-9 of the Robotech series; 345-39184-5
Paperback, 480 pp; cover art from Robotech archives; EKH, editor
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MAY 1995:
THE CURSED by Dave Duncan (F)
345-38951-4
Hardcover, 448 pp; cover art by David Cherry; VC, editor
GODS OF THE WELL OF SOULS by Jack L. Chalker (SF)
Book Three of _The Watchers at the Well_; mass-market edition of our 10/94
trade paperback; 345-38850-X
Paperback, 384 pp; cover art by Paul Youll; SHS, editor
THE LOST PRINCE by Bridget Wood (F)
Sequel to WOLFKING; mass-market edition of our 7/93 trade paperback; 345-
38853-4
Paperback, 480 pp; cover art by Keith Parkinson; VC, editor
HOUSE OF MOONS by K.D. Wentworth (SF)
Sequel to MOONSPEAKER; 345-39461-5
Paperback, 304 pp; cover art by Nicholas Jainschigg; EKH, editor
THE MISTS OF AVALON by Marion Zimmer Bradley (F)
11th-anniversary reissue; 34535049-9
Trade paperback, 896 pp; cover art by Braldt Bralds
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JUNE 1995:
KINGDOMS OF THE NIGHT by Allan Cole and Chris Bunch (F)
Third Volume of _The Anteros_; 345-38731-7
Hardcover, 528 pp; cover art by Gnemo; SS, editor
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK: THE NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO DRAMATIZATION by Brian
Daley (based on characters and situations created by George Lucas) (SF)
The original scripts from the 10-episode NPR series; 345-39605-7
Trade paperback, 352 pp; cover art from LucasFilm archives; EKH, editor
THE WARRIOR'S TALE by Allan Cole & Chris Bunch (F)
Second volume of _The Anteros_, after THE FAR KINGDOMS; mass-market
edition of our 11/94 hardcover; 345-38734-1
Paperback, 480 pp; cover art by Keith Parkinson; SS, editor
FLATLANDER by Larry Niven (SF)
Short-story collection with one new story; 345-39480-1
Paperback, 368 pp; cover art by Chris Moore; SS, editor
REDMAGIC by Crawford Kilian
Sequel to GREENMAGIC; 345-38370-2
Paperback, 320 pp; cover art by Mark Harrison; VC, editor
GREENMAGIC by Crawford Kilian (F)
Reissue; 345-36140-7
Paperback, 311 pp; cover art by Romas; VC, editor
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JULY 1995:
POWER PLAY by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (SF)
Third book in the _Power_ series; 345-38826-7
Hardcover, 304 pp; cover art by Rowena; SS, editor
POWER LINES by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (SF)
Sequel to POWERS THAT BE; mass-market edition of our 8/94 hardcover; 345-
38780-5
Paperback, 336 pp, cover art by Rowena; SS, editor
QUEST FOR LOST HEROES by David Gemmell (F)
345-37904-7
Paperback, 304 pp; cover art by Royo; SWS, editor
THE STOLEN THRONE by Harry Turtledove (F)
Book I of _The Time of Troubles_; 345-38047-9
Paperback, 368 pp; cover art by Steve Youll; VC, editor
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WORKS IN PROGRESS: Changes, Additions, Updates
(The DRIN lists only the changes to the Works in Progress report.
The entire current report can be found on the Panix gopher
(gopher.panix.com) in the Del Rey Books subdirectory, under Publishing
Information.)
DAVID GEMMELL is completing a six-book contract with our sister company in
England, Random House UK. He's just turned in a third Jon Shannow book,
BLOODSTONE. (Del Rey will be publishing Gemmell's earlier Shannow books in
the future.) In the meantime, THE KING BEYOND THE GATE was released in
February, and two more Gemmell fantasies--QUEST FOR LOST HEROES (July) and
WAYLANDER (November)--are scheduled for release from Del Rey in 1995, with
the "Stones of Power" cycle set for '96. A thriller of Gemmell's is
currently being sold for British television, and he'll be working on the
script for it during the second half of this year.
GEARY GRAVEL is currently working on Volume Two of the Might and Magic
books: THE SHADOWSMITH.
NICOLA GRIFFITH has turned in her second novel, SLOW RIVER, which will be
published in hardcover in August. (Dorothy Allison, award-winning author
of BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA, has given us a fantastic quote for the book,
which is great good news.) Nicola and her first novel, AMMONITE, were
recently covered in a _Ms._ magazine article on feminist science fiction
and the Tiptree Award (the November/December issue). "Yaguara," a fantasy
story by Nicola, is the cover story for the March issue of _Asimov's
Science Fiction._
TARA K. HARPER has completed her revisions on CATARACT, and is turning her
attention now to the next Wolfwalker books.
ROSEMARY KIRSTEIN is hard at work on THE LOST STEERSMAN, the third book in
her series that began with THE STEERWOMAN and continued in THE OUTSKIRTER'
SECRET. I'ts taking her longer than expected to finish it, so it looks
like it won't be published until late 1996, at the earliest.
ANNE McCAFFREY is hard at work on a novel introducing a whole, new time-
travel world--NOT from an existing series!--for Del Rey.
HARRY TURTLEDOVE has completed WORLDWAR: UPSETTING THE BALANCE, the third
book in the four-book "Worldwar" alternate-history series. He's also
turned in the first book in the new Videssos series.
LAWRENCE WATT-EVANS has already completed all the books in the _Three
Worlds_ trilogy. The mass-market edition of OUT OF THIS WORLD is in
bookstores now, as is the trade paperback edition of IN THE EMPIRE OF
SHADOW. THE REIGN OF THE BROWN MAGICIAN is slated for January 1996.
Lawrence is now writing TOUCHED BY THE GODS, a new fantasy.
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SIGNINGS, READINGS, CONVENTION ATTENDANCE BY DEL REY AUTHORS
C. J. CHERRYH (Guest of Honor) and MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY will be attending
Fantasy Worlds Festival '95 in Berkeley, California, March 10-12.
POUL ANDERSON (Guest of Honor) will be attending LunaCon '95 in Rye Brook,
New York, March 17-19. Del Rey editors will also be attending, and there
will be some special Del Rey programming.
STEPHEN DONALDSON and PATRICIA McKILLIP will be attending the
International Conference on the Fantastic in Arts (ICFA) in Ft.
Lauderdale, Florida, March 24-26.
FREDERIK POHL will be attending I-Con XIV in Stony Brook, New York, March
31-April 2.
DEL REY NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS=====================================
CLASSIC DEL REY TITLES BACK IN PRINT IN CANADA
The Canadian based chain, Smithbooks is featuring a special promotion of
some of our classic Del Rey titles this month. The titles are THE WELL OF
THE UNICORN by Fletcher Pratt, THE BEST OF LESTER DEL REY, STARBURST by
Frederik Pohl, SECOND FOUNDATION by Issac Asimov, A CASE OF CONSCIENCE by
James Blish, DOUBLE STAR by Robert A. Heinlein, STAND ON ZANZIBAR by John
Brunner, AT THE MOUNTAIN OF MADNESS AND OTHER TALES OF TERROR by H. P.
Lovecraft, and DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS by John Wyndham.
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A NEW DISCOVERY COMMENCES
Our latest Del Rey Discovery manuscript is a first novel called
COMMENCEMENT, by Roby James. It's extremely well written, and made at
least one of us lug hundreds of pages home and back on the subway every
day so she wouldn't run out of manuscript before returning to the office
for more. It's the story of a singularly talented but somewhat immature
woman who finds herself dumped on a low-tech world, stripped of her mental
talents, on the eve of her ascent to power. There, to describe the story
really briefly, she grows up, and finds out the world doesn't necessarily
work the way she thought it did. It will be published in very early 1996.
LATEST EXCERPTS ONLINE=============================================
Sample chapters of some of our upcoming and recent (and some of our
favorite, neither upcoming nor recent) books are now available online (for
free, of course). This month's books are WITCHES' BREW and THE TANGLE BOX
by Terry Brooks, THE MASTERS' GAMBIT by Jack McKinney, and THE HUNTERS'
HAUNT by Dave Duncan. Descriptions of all four can be found in the
"What's New in the Stores" section at the top of the DRIN.
You can get the sample chapters a few different ways: they're on the
Panix gopher (gopher.panix.com) in the Del Rey Books directory; you can
request them via e-mail from the Del Rey fileserver (del...@tachyon.com;
SENDME sample.witches_brew, sample.tangle_box, sample.masters_gambit, or
sample.hunters_haunt) and they'll be available in CompuServe's SF Library
4 and GEnie's SFRT fiction library, too. (For a list of all sample
chapters available via the fileserver, send a message to
del...@tachyon.com with "LIST sample" as the body of the message.)
IN DEPTH===========================================================
James P. Hogan is the author of the popular _Giants_ series as well as
many other works of hard sf (for Del Rey) and political/techno-thrillers
(for Bantam). His latest book for us is THE IMMORTALITY OPTION, a sequel
to his classic CODE OF THE LIFEMAKER. Here he writes about the dreaded
question sf authors get asked by all and sundry, answers that question in
the form of advice, and gives useful examples from his own work.
WHY DO READERS ALWAYS ASK?
When writers who attend science-fiction conventions get together--
typically in a bar--a topic that often comes up in conversation is:
questions that we hate being asked most when we're on panels. One that
ranks high on a surprising number of people's lists is, "Where do you get
your ideas from?" I'm not sure exactly why, but it does on mine, too.
So, in the probably forlorn hope that by making the effort once to get a
response out to many people, I might reduce the number of questioners who
pose it in the future, here are a few thoughts.
I'm not convinced that the human mind ever comes up with anything that
is truly original--a genuine creation out of nothing of something that
didn't exist before (try imagining a new color, for example). Rather,
what we call "innovation" is more a process of recombining elements from
our experience in novel ways. In other words, all that is truly new comes
from the world outside. What gets the wheels that generate ideas turning,
therefore, isn't sitting around in idyllic settings waiting for
"inspiration" to strike, but getting out and about and experiencing the
stimulation and variety that the real world has to offer. So, don't avoid
anyone. Learn to talk to all kinds of people, from denizens of sleazy
bars to nobel laureates and CEOs--but more important, to listen. They all
have thoughts and ideas that can throw a new light on life from a hundred
new angles that you never even knew existed. Never turn down an
opportunity to travel. Read anything--especially things that you don't
"normally," until the word no longer really means very much. Change
careers, not jobs--changing jobs is just more of the same. The result can
be that when somebody asks you where you get your ideas from, it's almost
impossible to answer. There is no pattern or logic to it. They can come
out of anywhere, from the most unexpected sources in the most unlikely
places, at any time. Maybe that's why so many of us hate being asked the
question.
Let's see if I can give some examples. The first book I wrote was
INHERIT THE STARS, which dealt with the discovery on the Moon of a fully
human, space-suited corpse that had been there for 40,000 years.
Logically there were only two possibilities: (1) he was from Earth; (2) he
wasn't. (1) implied the existence of a vanished civilization sufficiently
advanced technically to get him there. (2) implied an alien process of
evolution that gave rise to a form indistinguishable from human. Neither
alternative is acceptable. Therefore no such corpse can exist. But it's
lying right there--on the slab.
The idea in this case came from my disgruntlement over the movie "2001: A
Space Odyssey." I loved the technical authenticity, the music, and the
notion of a discovery being made in the course of lunar exploration,
sufficiently exciting to mobilize a sizeable proportion of the scientific
community. But I didn't understand the ending. After setting me up on
the edge of my seat for a satisfying resolution that would tie everything
all together, it collapsed into a lot of surrealism and symbolism that
left me mystified. So I bitched about it back at the office. Somebody
there told me that if I thought I could write something that wrapped
things up better, to go do it. We made a bet, and that was how INHERIT
THE STARS came to be written.
So why a corpse? Well, I wanted to depict science as a great, ongoing
mystery story, which is how I see it. Mystery stories have dead bodies in
them, so let's have a dead body. But if we're going to get half the
scientific community excited, there had better be something more
interesting about it than footprints in flowerbeds and fingerprints in the
library. So I made it 40,000 years old. You see--a movie; a view of
science; a set formula for a murder mystery. Nothing new. Just familiar
elements put together in a different way.
The follow-up came years later, when I had dinner in Boston one night with
Arthur Clarke and Judy-Lynn del Rey. Finally, I could put it to the
ultimate source: "What did the ending to that movie mean?" Apparently it
was based on his short story SENTINEL. According to Arthur, Kubrick
wanted to end it one way, another Hollywood person wanted to end it
another, and they ended up arguing and shouting. "I just walked away and
left them to it, and that was what they came up with," Arthur said. "I
never understood it, either."
My second novel, THE GENESIS MACHINE, was intended to appeal mainly to
physicists (I was still too green to realize that one reason for writing
books was to sell them), but it actually drew enthusiastic responses from
a wide spectrum of readers. It involved extrapolations of particle
physics described in a defense-oriented research setting, where in
developing super-weaponry, scientists stumble on the physics that will
make the "hyperspace" drive--or whatever you want to call it--of science
fiction an eventual reality.
Two elements came together in this instance to yield what became the book.
One was a used book that I'd picked up in a London street market many
years before, which developed the thought of matter decaying at an
imperceptible rate, with gravity generated as a result of it (all other
forces in physics depend on the rate of _change_ of something). The other
was a thought that I had been entertaining for some time about how silly
so many sf stories seemed that had spacecraft being sent across
light-years of space by some unspecified means, only to launch a pretty
conventional bomb or missile at a target when they got there. I mean,
what else does a bomb do but concentrate a lot of energy on a target? If
you can send the ship, why not just send the energy? It seemed a bit like
inventing gunpowder to blow holes in castle walls, and then trundling it
up to the wall in a cart instead of inventing a cannon, too, while you're
at it. As is often the case, the two thoughts coexisted for years in
separate brain compartments without it occurring to me that the
implications of one might answer the question posed by the other:
developing the novel physics could form the basis of a weapon system
worthy of being called futuristic. All very pedestrian so far... But then
add the twist that developing the weapon unexpectedly leads to the
discovery of "hyperspace," and voila: the basics of a plot.
VOYAGE FROM YESTERYEAR dealt with the clash between humans from Earth and
descendants of a planet's founding generation--people raised from the
embryo by machines as part of a desperate star-seeding project and never
exposed to socialized adults. The idea was to consider how different a
society might be, composed of people who had never been exposed to the
social conditioning processes imposed by conditioned adults, and how it
might react when a mission from Earth finally shows up and tries to impose
forms of authority that the inhabitants have never been taught to respond
to. It started years before I wrote it; I was in a pub in England with
some friends, and one of them asked, "What's the answer to the problem in
Northern Ireland?" I said, "There isn't one," thought about it for a
while, and then added, "Unless you can find a way of separating the
children from the adults for at least a generation." That prompted the
thought: If you did, what sort of a society might result? And the rest
followed. Since several readers spotted it, it would only be fair to add
that there was also some inspiration from a delightful short story that I
came across long ago as a teenager, entitled "And Then There Were None."
The book ended up as a kind of updated Ghandi guide on how to undermine an
authoritarian regime when they've got the guns. It was serialized in a
Polish underground magazine in the mid-eighties, finding its way into
several Eastern European countries and Russia. A couple of years later
they were all doing it. So never mind these things you hear about the
bankruptcy of the communist economy or their getting into the Western
computer networks. I claim the credit. After it was all over, I was in
Poland and had lunch in Warsaw with the people who published that original
serialization. They had put some zlotys aside for me in a Polish bank, as
it turned out, but after two years of ruinous inflation the amount yielded
the princely equivalent of $8.23. So, after all the billions that went
into ICBMs, SAC, the CIA, NSA, and the nuclear Navy, that's my bill for
bringing down the Soviet empire.
Wouldn't it be interesting if, years from now, somebody were to interview
the aging veterans from the days of the Berlin Wall, defiant Polish labor
unions, and facing down tanks in Moscow, and ask them, "Tell me, where did
you get your ideas from?"
--copyright 1995 by James P. Hogan
Q & A==============================================================
Q: When will Harry Turtledove's WORLDWAR: TILTLING THE BALANCE be out, and
are there more books of WORLDWAR to follow?
A: TILTLING THE BALANCE should be in stores (in hardcover) this week.
There will be more books in the series--at least one, maybe two.
Q: When will Julian May's MAGNIFICAT be out?
A: The manuscript hasn't been turned in yet, but Knopf plans to publish
the hardcover in early 1996. It will be last volume of the _Galactic
Milieu_ trilogy.
Q: I have series of three Del Rey paperback books written by Steve Miller
and Sharon Lee. The last of these books CARPE DIEM, seems to leave the
door open for more books. Are these authors writing more books in this
series?
A: We don't have any books by Lee and Miller under contract at this time,
nor do other publishers, as far as we know.
Q: I have a quick question about a Barbara Hambly book (or 2). Are THE
SORCERER'S WARD and STRANGER AT THE WEDDING the same book with
different titles for different markets (UK and USA)?
A: Yes, they are the same book with two different titles.
Ellen Key Harris
Editor, Del Rey Books
Director of Online Projects, Ballantine Books
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Jo Walton
> ROSEMARY KIRSTEIN is hard at work on THE LOST STEERSMAN, the third book in
> her series that began with THE STEERWOMAN and continued in THE OUTSKIRTER'
> SECRET.
Hooray! :-) :-)
I'ts taking her longer than expected to finish it, so it looks
> like it won't be published until late 1996, at the earliest.
Boo :-( :-(
This is high on the list of things I'm waiting for.
--
Jo
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- - I kissed a kif at Kefk - -
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Help me run the Galactic Empire at Confabulation, Easter 1995
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Henry Churchyard
This is ridiculous -- *everything* new this month was a media spin-off, a
shared-world universe, or a damn fantasy trilogy. (Excuse my
grumbling...)
--
"...Haughty Spain's Pope-consecrated fleet || Henry Churchyard
Advances to our shores, while England's fate, || University of Texas
Like a clipp'd guinea, trembles in the scale!"|| chur...@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
-- _The_Critic_, Sheridan (1779) http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~churchh
Ahasuerus the Wandering Jew
> HARRY TURTLEDOVE has completed WORLDWAR: UPSETTING THE BALANCE, the third
> book in the four-book "Worldwar" alternate-history series.
[snip]
> Q: When will Harry Turtledove's WORLDWAR: TILTLING THE BALANCE be out, and
> are there more books of WORLDWAR to follow?
> A: TILTLING THE BALANCE should be in stores (in hardcover) this week.
> There will be more books in the series--at least one, maybe two.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
???
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Nancy Lebovitz
>her series that began with THE STEERWOMAN and continued in THE OUTSKIRTER'
>SECRET. I'ts taking her longer than expected to finish it, so it looks
>like it won't be published until late 1996, at the earliest.
>
you'll republish the first and second when you publish the third?
I recently read the first book and liked it very much--and was horrified
to find that the second had gone out of print in only three years.
Nancy Lebovitz (nan...@universe.digex.net)
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authors.Please E-Mail me with the information. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.
Samuel S. Paik
>>ROSEMARY KIRSTEIN is hard at work on THE LOST STEERSMAN
>>like it won't be published until late 1996, at the earliest.
>I'm glad to hear that she's writing a third book. Is there any hope that
>you'll republish the first and second when you publish the third?
>I recently read the first book and liked it very much--and was horrified
>to find that the second had gone out of print in only three years.
Is _The Outskirter's Secret_ really out of print? I saw a copy last week.
The read two chapters of _The Lost Steersman_ at Boskone, don't read
chapter 8 during lunch. She didn't seem very confident about finishing
it soon.
Sam
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Nancy Lebovitz
Samuel S. Paik <pa...@eng.pko.dec.com> wrote:
>Nancy Lebovitz <nan...@universe.digex.net> wrote:
>>>ROSEMARY KIRSTEIN is hard at work on THE LOST STEERSMAN
>>>I'ts taking her longer than expected to finish it, so it looks
>>>like it won't be published until late 1996, at the earliest.
>
>>I'm glad to hear that she's writing a third book. Is there any hope that
>>you'll republish the first and second when you publish the third?
>>I recently read the first book and liked it very much--and was horrified
>>to find that the second had gone out of print in only three years.
>
>Is _The Outskirter's Secret_ really out of print? I saw a copy last week.
I don't know if it's out of print in some absolute sense, but my
local bookstore tried to order a copy for me and couldn't get one.
Nancy "it's painted white on this side" Lebovitz
P.S. There's a very interesting recent book called MATHSEMANTICS
that has a fair amount about General Semantics in it.
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> shared-world universe, or a damn fantasy trilogy. (Excuse my
> grumbling...)
[Why won't Netscape handle follow-ups properly??]
Agreement and commiserations, but I'm in the UK so I reckon there
will be a few decent books from our lot soon :-) ...but if I was
relying on Del Ray for reading material over the next few months
I'd be very upset.
I'm astonished, surely the market for 'better' books can't be that
small in comparison?
No-one I know buys that sort of book 'Star Trek #6765456567' or what-
ever - and I and my friends get through a lot of books.
Are people buying them in secret?
They probably are now that I think about it...
David Kennedy
D.Ke...@Queens-Belfast.ac.uk
Loren Joseph MacGregor
STIFTER) wrote as follows:
>
> Does any one out therre know were I should adress a leter to these
> authors.Please E-Mail me with the information. Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.
The best way to write a letter to *any* author (especially an author
whose books are currently in print) is to write to the author c/o the
publisher of the books. The publisher will forward the letter to the
author.
This serves two purposes: it lets the publisher know that there are
people who care about the writer's work (always a nice thing), and it
protects those writers who, for one reason or another, do not wish their
address to be made public.
If the author wishes to write back -- and many do so -- you will then
have an address you can use.
-- LJM