Books you are waiting for..

[SirTomster]

I am always interested in finding new books. So figure I would post the books I am waiting for to come out and then you can post yours and maybe I will find some more books I need to read!

When the Tide Rises - David Drake - RCN series -3/08
By Schism Rent Asunder - David Weber - Unknown
All Honor Harrington books - David Weber - Who knows, but probably not till 2010 for next HH focused book :(
Vorpal Blade - John Ringo Travis Taylor - 9/07 - Picking this up for a trip next weekend.
And a few other Baen titles that I might or might not get in hardcover.

And the reason I know about Baen is because they have a coming soon page that shows me what they are publishing. Up to March 2008 right now. For the life of me I cannot find a similar page at Tor.

Does any other publisher post their soon to be released books on a single page? So I can view them all? Count me lazy.

[jeels]

Try Locus magazine's website:

http://locusmag.com/ForthcomingBooks.html

-Jeff

[WinterIsComing]

I feel like I've been waiting for forever for Kristen Britain's third book in her Green Rider series. The High King's Tomb should be out in November, if I remember correctly.

[SirTomster]

Try Locus magazine's website:

http://locusmag.com/ForthcomingBooks.html

-Jeff

Thankee!

[dr-phil-physics]

The Locus magazine website is a trove of good info. But then again, so is Locus magazine. If you are interested in SF/Fantasy/Horror, it's a great magazine for learning who the players are and what's going on in the business. And if you are interested in writing, I really recommend it. SF/F/H is ultimately a somewhat small field and everyone knows everyone. "You can't tell the players without a scorecard" and Locus makes a pretty good scorecard. Plus all the SF/F/H magazines, including Locus, are losing subscribers, so getting Locus will help stem the tide.

Dr. Phil

[K.V.C]

There hasn't been much that has grabbed me lately..

Looking forward to:

The Wise Man's Fear - Patrick Rothfuss
The Blade Itself - Joe Abercrombie (just came out or soon)
The secord Locke book which is out, I haven't bought it yet

thats all that leaps to mind.

I gave up on Honor after Weber opened the universe up and screwed up his novels by forcing me to go find the novels/stories written by other people. Then he ends the war, and restarts it. (I read that he was going to kill her off and was talked into changing his storyline.)

Thanks for the Locus link, Jeff!!

[captain button]

A Dance for Dragons by George RR Martin. May not be the precise title.

[Domini]

I, too, am looking forward to The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss

Cautiously I'm looking forward to Tangled Webs: A Black Jewels Novel by Anne Bishop. Nothing to date has really lived up to the Black Jewels Trilogy, as Anne Bishop seems almost to be riffing on herself with all the other books. But I'm hoping Tangled Webs is good, since it's likely a Surreal book, and Surreal is one of the original BJT supporting characters.

The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch, the third book in his Gentleman Bastard series, which will be a while in coming since the second book just came out.

Renegade's Magic by Robin Hobb. The UK gets it before us in the US though :( US gets it in Jan 2008.

Small Favor by Jim Butcher

That's all I can think off offhand. I'm sure there's more that just aren't coming to mind.

Edit: D'oh. I used HTML for italics rather than bbcode. Stupid me.

[Angelle]

Douglas Coupland's The Gum Thief.

And I'm looking forward to reading my copy of William Gibson's newest, Spook Country, after all the moving madness is done.

[PixelFish]

+ Any book in the Vorkosigan saga by Lois Bujold, although I don't see any forthcoming. (I am looking forward to some Ivan shenanigans.) Also, speaking of Bujold, it looks like she made another entry into the Sharing Knife, which is due out May next year. And according to her myspace page, a FOURTH Sharing Knife book draft was just finished. Wow.

+ Brandon Sanderson's final Mistborn book. I like where he's taken the Mistborn books so far. They start off as a heist story, where overthrowing the Final Empire proves to be the easy part, and holding onto the kingdom afterward seems to be the tricky bit.

+ Dance of Dragons by George R. R. Martin I'm anxious to see what's going on with Tyrion and Dany and so on.

+ Renegade's Magic by Robin Hobb. OSC described Forest Mage as one of the bleakest books he'd ever read. And holy god was that true. But you kept on reading and reading and reading. People claim that George RR Martin is brutal to his characters, but at least some of them get put out of their misery and killed....whereas Robin Hobb has figured out how to REALLY torture a character and make you be absorbed in it.

[Janiece]

+ Any book in the Vorkosigan saga by Lois Bujold, although I don't see any forthcoming. (I am looking forward to some Ivan shenanigans.) Also, speaking of Bujold, it looks like she made another entry into the Sharing Knife, which is due out May next year. And according to her myspace page, a FOURTH Sharing Knife book draft was just finished. Wow.

What she said. I don't know if Ms. Bujold is "done" with Miles and friends (I sincerely hope not). I love that universe and her stories about it.

Pixel, will you be coming to Denvention 3 next year, since she'll be the Guest of Honor?

[captain button]

On the Bujold front, Steve Jackson Games says that their GURPS Vorkosigan role-playing game adaptation is "In Production", saying that the project is finally moving again. No release date yet, though.

I was one of the playtesters on this back when. We were hoping that SJG would have it out in time for the release of Diplomatic immunity, but that didn't work out.

Of course, this far down the road I may not be able remember most of my comments well enough to know if they had any effect, except for the big arguments I recall about things like the number of wormhole routes in the Sergyar system.

[Domini]

+ Renegade's Magic by Robin Hobb. OSC described Forest Mage as one of the bleakest books he'd ever read. And holy god was that true. But you kept on reading and reading and reading. People claim that George RR Martin is brutal to his characters, but at least some of them get put out of their misery and killed....whereas Robin Hobb has figured out how to REALLY torture a character and make you be absorbed in it.

I agree with both you and Orson Scott Card. Robin Hobb is brutal to her characters, and pretty much holds "life is never as you want or expect" as her mantra, emphasis on the "don't want". I'm waiting eagerly for the third, though.

[SirTomster]

Guess I should add Steve Stirling's The Sunrise Lands. I just found it at the bookstore and could not resist.

Damn I am weak.

[Pixel]

So figure I would post the books I am waiting for to come out and then you can post yours and maybe I will find some more books I need to read!

Waiting for the next book from :
- Terry Pratchett,
- Jasper Fforde - addictive,
- George R. R. Martin - the next to read the two-parts in one,
- Connie Willis - it's been a long time since Passage (novellas are fine, sure, but...),
and in french,
- a collection of Greg Egan's short-stories (Luminous translated)
- the first collection from Catherine Dufour, young french sf-writer, ...

[Tania]

Locus, which has been mentioned, is a great source. I also like to use Amazon's Advanced Search feature. Put in the publisher, date range, and sort by date. Voila! It's pretty handy.

[PixelFish]

Pixel, will you be coming to Denvention 3 next year, since she'll be the Guest of Honor?

Tempting, but I have to save my time off for a writing retreat and family vacations. :(

[mhr]

I'm still waiting for the mass market paperback edition of Kage Baker's The Graveyard Game, the fourth volume of her Company series. I read and own the first three in MMPB, but the fourth one has never been published in that format. And, obsessive-compulsive that I am, I demand the same format before I continue. Although by now it's been so long that I may be insufficiently motivated to continue.

(What happened - I think - is that her previous publisher dropped her after TGG was published in hardcover, and when Tor picked her up it republished the earlier books in TPB, and so TGG never got a mass market edition.)

I kind of wish the trade paperback format would just die, as such books are more expensive and larger (and thus harder to store) than mass market, but not as durable as hardcover.

[david-de-beer]

George Martin - A Dance with Dragons
Terry Goodkind - Confessor (I'm hoping this really is the end; series are nice, but there was only one Neverending story I ever loved, the rest just reach a point where it becomes annoying and boring)
Michael Swanwick - The Dragons of Babel
Wastelands anthology, edited by John Joseph Adams (Nightshade); because I'm a sucker for post-apocalyp..
Jim Hines - Goblin War -- Jig! Jig! He's our man, er, goblin, if he can do it...everybody can!!

[beelzebubba29]

Whatever the next Steven Brust title is...that's what I'm always waiting for. Just about everything else I read between releases is just to help kill time...lol.

[PixelFish]

Jo Walton's Ha'Penny is coming out in about a week and a half. It's the sequel to Farthing, the cozy mystery mixed with fascism alternate history. I'm excited about it.