The Books We Are Expecting in 2011

[Werthead]

No doubt this list will be added to and expanded by others. But my first rough estimates for 2011 releases goes thusly:

January

The Crippled God (Malazan Book of the Fallen #10) by Steven Erikson

The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie

The Hammer by K.J. Parker

The Fallen Blade by Jim Courtney Greenwood (Assassini Trilogy #1)

Home Fires by Gene Wolfe

February

Surface Detail (a Culture novel) by Iain M. Banks

Deep State (This is Not a Game #2) by Walter Jon Williams

The Deserter (Bone World Trilogy #2) by Peadar Ó Guilín

The Omen Machine (Sword of Truth universe #14) by Terry Goodkind

March

The Wise Man's Fear (Kingkiller Chronicle #2) by Patrick Rothfuss

The Neon Court (Matthew Swift #3) by Kate Griffin

The Enterprise of Death by Jesse Bullington

Sleight of Hand (short story collection) by Peter Beagle

Best American Fantasy 4 (anthology), edited by Larry 'Squirrelfriend' Nolen

Secret Journeys of Jack London by Tim Lebbon and Christopher Golden (with Greg Ruth)

Son of Heaven (Chung Kuo #1) by David Wingrove

'Spring'

The Republic of Thieves (Gentleman Bastard #3) by Scott Lynch

Book 1 of the 11K Trilogy by Alastair Reynolds

A Kingdom Besieged (Chaoswar Saga #1/Riftwar Cycle #27) by Raymond E. Feist

Triumff: A Double Falsehood (Triumff #2) by Dan Abnett

The Sea Watch (Shadows of the Apt #6) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Beggars Banquet by Adam Roberts

April

The Inheritance (short story collection) by Robin Hobb

The Cold Commands (A Land Fit for Heroes #2) by Richard Morgan

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Sausages by Tom Holt

The White-Luck Warrior (The Aspect-Emperor #2) by R. Scott Bakker

Legacy of Kings (Magister Trilogy #3) by Celia Friedman

Sea of Ghosts by Alan Campbell

Titus Awakes (Gormenghast #4) by Mervyn Peake and Maeve Gilmore

May

Embassytown by China Mieville

Time of Contempt (Witcher Quintet #2) by Andrzej Sapkowski (English translation)

The Order of Scales (Memory of Flames #3) by Stephen Deas

Fenrir (Wolfsangel #2) by M.D. Lachlan

Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse #1) by James S.A. Corey (pseudonym for Daniel Abraham & Ty Franck)

Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi

'Summer'

Manhattan in Reverse (short story collection) by Peter F. Hamilton

Book 2 of Northland by Stephen Baxter

The Iron Jackal (Tales of the Ketty Jay #3) by Chris Wooding

His Father's Fist (Acts of Caine #4) by Matt Stover

Requiem (Psalms of Isaak #4) by Ken Scholes

The Departure (Owner Trilogy #1) by Neal Asher

The Diviner (Golden Key #2) by Melanie Rawn

The Night Eternal (Strain Trilogy #3) by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan

Black Halo (Undergates #2) by Sam Sykes

June

The Dragon's Path (The Dagger and the Coin #1) by Daniel Abraham

The Book of Transformations (Legends of the Red Sun #3) by Mark Charan Newton

Fort Freak (Wild Cards #21) edited by George R.R. Martin

The Diviner (The Golden Key #2) by Melanie Rawn

July

The Kings of Morning (The Macht #3) by Paul Kearney

Spellbound (Spellwright #2) by Blake Charlton

A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire #5) by George R.R. Martin

August

Book 2 of the Legends of Shannara duology by Terry Brooks

Pearlant (Light Series #3) by M. John Harrison

'Fall'

The Magician King (Magicians #2) by Lev Grossman

September

Bitterblue (Graceling #3) by Kristin Cashore

October

The Islanders by Christopher Priest

Rumoured/Undated

Tor Books are publishing the first Wild Cards reprint in November 2010, so I'm assuming the reprint of at least Aces High, if not Jokers Wild as well, will follow in 2011.

Several more Chung Kuo books are due in 2011 as well, if the first books comes out on schedule in Spring 2011. There are 20 books in this series and will be published between 2011 and 2015 in an ambitious schedule by Corvus Atlantic.

Adam Roberts apparently has a YA novel as his next book in 2011, which is interesting news.

Book 2 of the Shadow Saga by Jon Sprunk and Book 2 of The Heart of the World by Col Buchanan will be 2011 releases, I imagine.

Terry Pratchett's next adult Discworld novel will be released in 2011 and will be a new Vimes/City Watch novel, entitled Snuff. It was expected to be the concluding volume in the Lipwig trilogy, Raising Taxes, but that appears to have been moved back.

Brandon Sanderson reports that A Memory of Light, the final Wheel of Time novel, is not now expected to hit the shelves until March 2012.

Kim Stanley Robinson has returned to writing a more overt SF project, a space-set project exploring the wider colonisation of the Solar system. It is not clear if this is expected in late 2011 or maybe in 2012.

Neal Stephenson's REAMDE (not a typo) may be a 2011 release.

[Larry.]

Best American Fantasy 4 - guest edited by Minister Faust, series now edited by myself. Yeah, this naturally is going to be my most highly-anticipated book release. Should be a February/March release. About to mail off the first third of volumes to Minister as a matter of fact. How's this for a shameless plug? :P

[Bastard of Godsgrace]

April:

White Luck Warrior by R. Scott Bakker

Unspecified:

Reamde by Neal Stephenson

[TheEvilKing]

I am looking forward to most of Wert's list plus Bakker and Daniel Fox.

BTW, nobody mention that book we're all waiting for or you'll curse 2011.

[Nebuchadnezzar]

I see I'm not going to get any work done in 2011...

[pat5150]

BTW, nobody mention that book we're all waiting for or you'll curse 2011.

Hey! We're still dreaming it could be a late 2010 thing! ;)

Patrick

[Garlan the Gallant]

2011

The Heroes by Joe Abercombie January 21, 2011 (Pre-Ordered - UK)

The White-Luck Warrior by R. Scott Bakker March 18, 2011 (Pre-Ordered - UK)

The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch April 1, 2011 (Pre-Ordered - UK)

The Edinburgh Dead by Brian Ruckley April 22, 2011 (Pre-Ordered - UK)

The Dark Commands by Richard K Morgan May 6, 2011 (Pre-Ordered - UK)

The Dragon's Path by Daniel Abraham June 2, 2011

The Wise Man's Fear by Pat Rothfuss August 16, 2011 (Pre-Ordered - UK)

Necessary Evil by Ian Tregillis

Spellbound by Blake Charlton

The Crippled God by Steven Erikson

A Dance of Dragons by George RR Martin

[Renasko]

Hey! We're still dreaming it could be a late 2010 thing! ;)

Dreaming, indeed.

Rothfuss, Lynch, Bakker. Nothing else matters.

[MattL86]

Hey! We're still dreaming it could be a late 2010 thing! ;)

Patrick

If he finished it today they would be hard pressed to get it out before January I'd imagine. :thumbsdown:

[Padraig]

Factually speaking, he announced he finished aFfC at the end of May 2005 for publication in Oct/Nov 2005. A repeat of such a turnaround is very doable. Rather academic point though.

[Werthead]

If he finished it today they would be hard pressed to get it out before January I'd imagine. :thumbsdown:

ASoS was finished in the last week of April and was in the stores in the last week of July (in the UK, Americans had to wait another three months but hey, we have the Book Depository these days to deal with that). AFFC was only slightly longer (finished in May, out in October). The UK and, this time, the US publishers have committed to replicating the three-month turn-around again. ADWD can be finished as late as August and should still make it out this year (like Towers of Midnight coming out in November if Sanderson can get it in by the middle of August).

Try not to drag the topic too OT. This thread is for books that are coming out in 2011 and at the moment ADWD is still a potential 2010 release, and thus discussion of its release date is off-topic until it's clear that it will have to fall back to 2011, which as I said will not be until mid-to-late August or so.

[Sir Thursday]

As happens every year, I look at next year's list and think: "That's going to be awesome." But somehow it never quite happens that way :(.

*crosses fingers that this is the year they all get their acts together and get their books out.

ST

[Rhadamanth]

I have to say that the list looks almost too good to be true. I can't wait for 2011.

[Renasko]

Shit, forgot about A Memory of Light. I think everyone will be looking forward to seeing how that one finishes. :P

[Jussi]

Andrzej Sapkowski's Times of Contempt will be published in May, Kristin Cashore's Bitterblue in September 2011.

I believe Matthew Stover's fourth Caine novel His Father's Fist is coming out next year. Not sure about this.

[Tom the Merciful]

What about Ken Scholes and Peter V. Brett?

Aren't they publishing something in 2011?

[Ser Scot A Ellison]

Wise Man's Fear, Republic of Thieves, The White Luck Warrior, A Memory of Light, (A Dance with Dragons (hoping for 2010))

[Jussi]

Dan Abnett's Triumff - The Double Falsehood will probably be released in spring 2011 by Angry Robot Books.

Celia Friedman's Legacy of Kings, book three of the Magister Trilogy, is scheduled for publication in April 2011.

http://www.littlebrown.co.uk/Title/9781841495354

[Ser Scot A Ellison]

I forgot. Peadar Ô Guilin (Peadar here on the board) believes the sequel to his book The Inferior should be released February 2011. He told me so on his livejournal this morning. I'm not sure of the title but I'm going to be buying the book.

:)

[Werthead]

Updated.

@ Tom the Merciful, Ken Scholes' Requiem is due in mid-to-late 2011, I believe. Peter Brett has only just started writing The Daylight War, which given the delays on The Desert Spear makes it most likely an early 2012 release.

A Memory of Light is, to my mind, more likely than Towers of Midnight to slip to the following year (and ToM is cutting it close). However, Sanderson is a writing machine, he doesn't have any other projects lined up (the sequel to The Way of Kings is on the backburner until WoT is completely finished) and Tor will push hard for it to be a late 2011 release, so the date stands for now.