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Compleat Guth Bandar coming soon
I've gone through all the Guth Bandar stories that appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction between 2004 and 2007, assembling them into a collection: The Compleat Guth Bandar. I've turned the text over to my excellent ebook designer, Bradley Schenck; I've arranged an ISBN; and I've asked the inestimable artist Ben Baldwin for a cover. If all goes well, by March, we should have an ebook. Like the others, it will sell for $2.99.
Guth Bandar was a key character in Black Brillion (Tor, 2004), but I didn't have enough room in that book to tell the full story of his career as a noönaut (an explorer of the collective unconscious). So I wrote a series of stories that told how he came to be an unwilling helper to the somewhat tragic hero of Black Brillion, Baro Harkless.
The stories were later stitched together to make the novel The Commons, but The Compleat Guth Bandar comprises the magazine stories in in their original form. The collection includes "The Helper and His Hero," which was shortlisted for a Nebula Award in the novella category.
One of the stories, "A Little Learning," is available for a free read in my excerpts.
Guth Bandar was a key character in Black Brillion (Tor, 2004), but I didn't have enough room in that book to tell the full story of his career as a noönaut (an explorer of the collective unconscious). So I wrote a series of stories that told how he came to be an unwilling helper to the somewhat tragic hero of Black Brillion, Baro Harkless.
The stories were later stitched together to make the novel The Commons, but The Compleat Guth Bandar comprises the magazine stories in in their original form. The collection includes "The Helper and His Hero," which was shortlisted for a Nebula Award in the novella category.
One of the stories, "A Little Learning," is available for a free read in my excerpts.
