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Which new releases are you most looking forward to?
I want more of the swords, too!And yeah, the paladin books are romances, but also darkish/gloomy fantasy? Vernon just said yesterday that "they're not severed head erotica", and that, I feel, should tell you something XD
She's reading the Clockwork Boys duology right now to remind herself of stuff :D because Shane is apparently a washed out paladin of the Dreaming God.
We should start a "BR" thread for this universe, or just a general T. Kingfisher fan thread, so that we can gush without bothering other people :) I'll get right on that!
edit: Here it is! :)
I'm looking forward to (mostly sequels):Fugitive Telemetry
Chaos on CatNet
Project Hail Mary
The Fall of Koli
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
I'm counting days to CatNet! And Murderbot :)
Christopher wrote: "I'm looking forward to (mostly sequels):Fugitive Telemetry
Chaos on CatNet
Project Hail Mary
The Fall of Koli
[book:The Galaxy, and..."
I'm looking forward to Project Hail Mary too.
Lois McMaster Bujold just finished the first draft of another Penric story, and if I recall correctly, she said it's novel-length rather than novella. Yay! It's to be called The Assassins of Thasalon.
Novel length Penric? :o I'm not sure how I feel about that. Yay for new Penric, hmm for length?Super yay for this:
"takes place two years after the events of The Physicians of Vilnoc."
Ah - I wish I didn’t hate Grover Gardner as a Penric voice! More time for listening you know.Someone convince me his cartoonish drawl that sounds like it’s from looney toons isn’t terrible ????
Yeah I liked Murderbot less at novel length which is my one point of comparison.
DivaDiane wrote: "I'm looking forward to Project Hail Mary too."Me too.
Christopher wrote: "Yeah I liked Murderbot less at novel length which is my one point of comparison."Exactly this. But I see that Bujold intended to write a novella, so I'm hoping it'll be OK.
edit: Don’t you just love randomly noticing typos the day after you posted? <_<
I love the Penric books, when the novel come out I'll take my chances. I also found the Murderbot novel a bit of a let down.
The Fall of Koli is already out Christopher so you don’t have to wait for that one. So is The Galaxy and the Ground Within. It’s sitting beside me right now.
There are a few I'm looking forward to this year. The Tangleroot Palace: Stories
Fugitive Telemetry
A Master of Djinn
King Bullet
Way of the Argosi
And I'm hoping The Hourglass Throne will get a release date soon.
Ah, yeah, guess I'm in the queue at my library for it, had guessed it was a pre-order, but see it's out -- exciting.One thing re: Penric is we do already have multiple novel length books set in that world which I have enjoyed to varying degrees. I think The Curse of Chalion was very good, gave that one 5 stars. Gave the other two 4 stars although The Hallowed Hunt might have been more like 3.5.
Don wrote: "I love the Penric books, when the novel come out I'll take my chances. I also found the Murderbot novel a bit of a let down."I really liked the first Murderbot, but after that they kind of grew old for me. I actually am thrilled that this Penric will be longer!
Two things I've managed to miss before:Destroyer of Light by Jennifer Marie Brissett. Is this linked to Elysium? The blurb mentions Eleusis, which I'd read would be the title of the sequel. In either case, I'll read it!
Hunting by Stars by Cherie Dimaline, the sequel to The Marrow Thieves.
@Anna: Thanks for the heads up for Destroyer of Light! Elysium was such an outstanding work, I'm eager to read more by this author.
MurderCat! MurderCat! MurderCat!I'm just sitting here waiting to go to sleep so I can wake up to MurderCat!
(Murder+Cat)
Oooh I'm excited for both of those too! I thought it was Sunday not Monday for some reason so to know that it is even closer is the best thing.
oo00oo - a new Charles de Lint is ready for pre-order: Juniper Wiles. It's set in the Newford universe with Jilly Coppercorn as a character in the book.
Anna wrote: "MurderCat! MurderCat! MurderCat! ..."And... There are three more MurderC... (err, Murderbot) books coming:
https://www.tor.com/2021/04/26/tordot...
But now I'd really like to see the cat version.
Three more?! <3I've been singing "MurderCat, MurderCat, does whatever a MurderCat does. Does it spend its days online? Yes it does, it's an AI. MurderrrrrCaaaat, MurderCat, MurderCaaaaaaatttttt!!!" for the past couple of hours. It eventually started to sound like MordorCat, at which point I stopped and started to imagine MordorCat's adventures.
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It probably just sleeps near the pit of doom ('cause it's warm) and looks imperiously at all who enter (because cats).
MordorCat! I hope the eagles picked them as well lolz
Oh, Juniper Wiles! That sounds good!
Melanie wrote: "It probably just sleeps near the pit of doom ('cause it's warm) and looks imperiously at all who enter (because cats)."And lazily bats at any shiny objects that may or may not arrive in its vicinity.
I can't wait for when the Shattered Castle gets released! The Ascendance is one of my favorite series. I hate having to wait tho. I want to know what happens in the next book right now!
Matt wrote: "Jade Legacy by Fonda LeeAlecto the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir"
I was disappointed in the second books of both of these series--I liked them, but 4 stars drifted down to 3. I'm definitely interested in seeing how they end.
Oh dear, looks like Jade Legacy has been delayed again. Last I checked, it was coming out in August or September, and now it's December.
Yiippiiieh! I just learned, that Sophie Aldred will be narrating the audiobook for Shards of Earth - what a lucky girl I am! I adored her narration of the Skyward-Series.
looking forward to The Blacktongue Thiefby Christopher Buehlman . I was not aware he was an author. I am familiar with his work on the ren faire circuit as Christoph the Insulter. He has great wit when dealing with a live audience. What can his imagination do, when put to the pen.
Fonda Lee said today in her email newsletter that Jade Legacy has a finalized release date of November 30 in the US/Canada and December 2 in the UK.She also said: "The Jade Setter of Janloon, a standalone noir mystery novella set in the Green Bone Saga world with new characters and appearances by some familiar ones, will be released by Subterranean Press in beautiful limited edition hardcover and e-book in April of 2022. "
And there will be some prequel short stories set in the same universe coming this fall too.
Ooh. I see a new addition to Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space series is to be published later this year. I'm looking forward to that. Inhibitor Phase
A new (hardcover) edition of The Fox's Tower and Other Tales by Yoon Ha Lee is coming this fall. The ebook is no longer available. (Fortunately I have it.) Five new stories in this one, and a gorgeous new cover. Might have to consider getting it :)
Just learned that Claire North has a new release in July: Notes from the Burning Age. I'm very much looking forward to it. Adrian Tchaikovsky is already raving about it.
There are two that I’m counting down the seconds daily for.- Nora Roberts “The Becoming” Dragon Heart Legacy, #4
- Laura Thalassa “Death” The Four Horsemen #4
Both are set to be released this upcoming fall. Can’t come soon enough 😫
Christopher wrote: "Yeah I liked Murderbot less at novel length which is my one point of comparison."this surprised me too. cant figure it out though.
Lois McMaster Bujold has just released the next in the Penric and Desdemona series. I've not yet read it - will as soon as I have a couple of hours so I can slurp it in one. :)The Assassins of Thalason
Doesn't yet come up with a link on Goodreads.
The Shattered Prince, book 5 in the Ascendance series is coming in October and I can’t wait!
Just randomly looking through Instagram and there was a tordotcom photo featuring The Album of Dr Moreau. It was sitting on some other books, one of which is the new Becky Chambers that’s due out in July. A Psalm for the Wild-Built. Can’t wait. For Becky that is.
Yea that’s been in my list a while although I’ve forgotten anything I knew about it by now! (The chambers book)
It has robots and is Solarpunk apparently. The Chambers book that is.
I am so excited for that one! Gurkha and Lord Tuesday was hilarious
The third in the Quantum Curators series The Quantum Curators and the Missing Codex. I just re-read the first two and they are fun adventures and inventive but on top of that the second one has a certain elegance to what is done to the characters that is built very neatly onto the first book.
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Also, I love that description of the paladin books, haha.