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james_davis_nicoll) wrote2011-08-12 07:16 pm
james_davis_nicoll) wrote2011-08-12 07:16 pm
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Upcoming book are you most excited about?
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That would be "The Fractal Prince", and he isn't done writing it yet. Dammit.
I had to check Locus to see what's upcoming. Only two really caught my eyes: The Kingdom of Gods and Honor's Paradox.
I'm generally more interested in what you are excited about.
I'm generally more interested in what you are excited about.
Those two are good for me. Actually, I hadn't even known that Honor's Paradox had been scheduled! So this post was useful.
Also The Children of the Sky.
Also The Children of the Sky.
Up until a couple of weeks ago, it would have been Ghost Story (Dresden #13.) At this point, probably Circle of Enemies (20 Palaces #3.)
Me, too.
Seriously, I think about it a lot.
Seriously, I think about it a lot.
The new James Alan Gardner book. Whenever that is.
say what to the what now..?
Ivan book? Really? Why was I not told!?
Ivan book? Really? Why was I not told!?
There's a graphic novel biography of Richard Feynman coming out, and the preview was screamingly funny.
Well, was going to say Vortex, even though it's not upcoming, simply because I'd missed its release and have since ordered it (and really like Robert Charles Wilson). But Amazon just delivered it, so it's not an upcoming book...just an unread one..
So I'd have to agree about Lois's Ivan book.
So I'd have to agree about Lois's Ivan book.
The only one I'm sure I'll be buying is P.C. Hodgell's Honor's Paradox (Kencyrath #6).
The rest are ones I'm looking forward to reading from the library:
Patricia Wrede, Across the Great Barrier (Frontier Magic #2)
Michelle Sagara, Cast in Ruin (Elantra #7)
Scott Westerfeld, Goliath (Leviathan #3)
N.K. Jemisin, The Kingdom of Gods (Inheritence #3)
Amanda Downum, Kingdoms of Dust (Necromancer Chronicles #3)
Brandon Sanderson, The Alloy of Law (Mistborn #4)
Martha Wells, The Serpent Sea (Cloud Roads #2)
Robin Hobb, City of Dragons (Rain Wilds #3)
The rest are ones I'm looking forward to reading from the library:
Patricia Wrede, Across the Great Barrier (Frontier Magic #2)
Michelle Sagara, Cast in Ruin (Elantra #7)
Scott Westerfeld, Goliath (Leviathan #3)
N.K. Jemisin, The Kingdom of Gods (Inheritence #3)
Amanda Downum, Kingdoms of Dust (Necromancer Chronicles #3)
Brandon Sanderson, The Alloy of Law (Mistborn #4)
Martha Wells, The Serpent Sea (Cloud Roads #2)
Robin Hobb, City of Dragons (Rain Wilds #3)
I cannot help noticing a certain pattern to everything on that list. If I write a book called "#" is it guaranteed to sell?
Reamde.
Also Shades of Gray 2: Painting by Numbers, but that one's a lot farther out on the horizon.
Also Shades of Gray 2: Painting by Numbers, but that one's a lot farther out on the horizon.
Lois Bujold's Ivan book and Lee & Miller's _Dragon Ship_.
The Children of the Sky, Vernor Vinge.
I am a relic of another time, so have high hopes for Vernor Vinge's Children of the Sky. I am Vinge's kind of reader, and have been since "Bookworm, Run!"
Despite having bought it in hardcover when it first came out, I have not read Anathem yet. Paperback editions, arrayed on the bookstore shelf, mock me.
It remains to be seen whether I will finish it before Reamde appears.
I will be eager to read the second volume of Bill Patterson's Heinlein biography, but it's so far up the pipeline I couldn't characterize it as "upcoming."
It remains to be seen whether my name will appear in the acknowledgements again.
Despite having bought it in hardcover when it first came out, I have not read Anathem yet. Paperback editions, arrayed on the bookstore shelf, mock me.
It remains to be seen whether I will finish it before Reamde appears.
I will be eager to read the second volume of Bill Patterson's Heinlein biography, but it's so far up the pipeline I couldn't characterize it as "upcoming."
It remains to be seen whether my name will appear in the acknowledgements again.
P.C. Hodgell's Honor's Paradox and Doug Hulick's Sworn in Steel. Currently.
Books on the to read pile:
Embassy Town, The Dervish House, A Dance of Dragons
Books I still need to buy but are out:
Rule 34
Books that need to come out now:
Vinge's next novel, Neal Stephenson's latest, The Kingdom of Gods
Embassy Town, The Dervish House, A Dance of Dragons
Books I still need to buy but are out:
Rule 34
Books that need to come out now:
Vinge's next novel, Neal Stephenson's latest, The Kingdom of Gods
I've been enjoying The Dervish House. It's not well-suited to the occasional, small, distracted spans of reading time I've had lately, but still excellent.
The Universal Pantograph
The Splendor and Misery of Bodies of Cities
A Method for Madness
The Last Dangerous Visions
The A. I. War
WHAT AM I MISSING HERE?
The Splendor and Misery of Bodies of Cities
A Method for Madness
The Last Dangerous Visions
The A. I. War
WHAT AM I MISSING HERE?
The A.I. War
WHAT AM I MISSING HERE?
The Dancing Girl
Air Logic
The City in the Crags
The Door into Starlight
WHAT AM I MISSING HERE?
The Dancing Girl
Air Logic
The City in the Crags
The Door into Starlight
I'm looking forward to _Whispers Underground_ by Ben Aaronovitch. I very much enjoyed the first two books in that series.
Excited? It *was* the next kitty book by vaughn - but i was given an ARC of it. Most books I just vaguely think of. Excited is not quite the word for Fish Tales, because it might turn out to be horrid, but it absolutely is my one "i will absolutely be buying it" book.
Books I care enough about to have pre-ordered:
Children of the Sky - Vernor Vinge
11/22/63 - Stephen King
Blue Remembered Earth - Alastair Reynolds
The Prague Cemetery - Umberto Eco
Getting Off - Lawrence Block [1]
Consumatta - Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins
Choke Hold - Christa Faust
The Comedy Is Finished - Donald E. Westlake
Blood on the Mink - Robert Silverberg
1Q84 - Haruki Murakami
Book Girl and the Captive Fool - Mizuki Nomura [2]
Book Girl and the Corrupted Angel - Mizuki Nomura
MM9 - Hiroshi Yamamoto
Ten Billion Days and a Hundred Billion Nights - Ryu Mitsuse
The Cage of Zeus - Sayuri Ueda
Ico: Castle in the Mist - Miyuki Miyabe [3]
[1] You didn't specify SF books.
[2] Well, it's technically still upcoming, though thanks to the incompetent staff at Amazon's warehouse I've already finished reading it.
[3] Did I miss any upcoming Haikasoru releases?
Children of the Sky - Vernor Vinge
11/22/63 - Stephen King
Blue Remembered Earth - Alastair Reynolds
The Prague Cemetery - Umberto Eco
Getting Off - Lawrence Block [1]
Consumatta - Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins
Choke Hold - Christa Faust
The Comedy Is Finished - Donald E. Westlake
Blood on the Mink - Robert Silverberg
1Q84 - Haruki Murakami
Book Girl and the Captive Fool - Mizuki Nomura [2]
Book Girl and the Corrupted Angel - Mizuki Nomura
MM9 - Hiroshi Yamamoto
Ten Billion Days and a Hundred Billion Nights - Ryu Mitsuse
The Cage of Zeus - Sayuri Ueda
Ico: Castle in the Mist - Miyuki Miyabe [3]
[1] You didn't specify SF books.
[2] Well, it's technically still upcoming, though thanks to the incompetent staff at Amazon's warehouse I've already finished reading it.
[3] Did I miss any upcoming Haikasoru releases?
Circle of Enemies by Harry Connolly
I've been waiting all year for it!
I've been waiting all year for it!
Scott Lynch's The Republic of Thieves, without checking my list of pre-orders not here (and really, if I have to check then I'm not that excited about it am I?)
M. John Harrison's next.
M. John Harrison's next.
Stephen Gould's 7th Sigma. I would also like a new JAG, but I've already asked too often to make it polite to ask again. I'd like LMB's Ivan book and Blue Remembered Earth by Alastair Reynolds.
Blue Remembered Earth, although I'm worried that it won't give me what I want from Reynolds. I'm glad he's branching out, though. I'm also eager for the next Daniel Abraham book, and very eager for the next book in The Expanse, although those are both likely a ways out.
I'm a little distressed to see that that's it. But I have a hard time getting excited by SF books without the hope of space ships, these days and I don't see much of that on the horizon.
I'm a little distressed to see that that's it. But I have a hard time getting excited by SF books without the hope of space ships, these days and I don't see much of that on the horizon.
Dumbspeech by Peter Watts.
Although it seems that most of what I enjoy turns out to actually be complete and abject crap by the standards of the rest of the Internet, so I'm not entirely sure why I bother anticipating anything. I enjoyed Connie Willis's latest (and so did my mother, who lived through the Blitz and saw nothing wrong with Willis's research save a couple of minor copy-editing errors) and apparently that was terrible. I've also been enjoying watching the reboot of Doctor Who and people tell me that that's awful crap too.
Heck, I can't help noticing that another book that I'm looking forward to, Children of the Sky is already being panned in this very thread. Fantastic--I guess that means I'll enjoy it properly well then.
Although it seems that most of what I enjoy turns out to actually be complete and abject crap by the standards of the rest of the Internet, so I'm not entirely sure why I bother anticipating anything. I enjoyed Connie Willis's latest (and so did my mother, who lived through the Blitz and saw nothing wrong with Willis's research save a couple of minor copy-editing errors) and apparently that was terrible. I've also been enjoying watching the reboot of Doctor Who and people tell me that that's awful crap too.
Heck, I can't help noticing that another book that I'm looking forward to, Children of the Sky is already being panned in this very thread. Fantastic--I guess that means I'll enjoy it properly well then.
Dumbspeech by Peter Watts
I hope he's just riffing on the title of Blindsight here, because I have never read a book more sequel-proof.
I hope he's just riffing on the title of Blindsight here, because I have never read a book more sequel-proof.
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