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Tor has been updating their 2014 listings on Amazon.com

The Emperor's Blades (Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne) by debut autjor Brian Stavely is hoped to be a good one, comes out in January.

I also see Sanderson's Words of Radiance has been moved to January 21, 2014.

Two interesting new titles coming out on April 1st are a new Felix Gilman book, titled "Revolutions", and a book called "Goblin Emperor" by Katherine Addison, which I believe is a pseudonym for Sarah Monette. This book has been in the works for years.

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Hit the nail on the head, Wert. PNH has been very open about it and the fact that he is so well known and respected is probably the only reason he's still at Tor (let's be honest - if he'd been let go at Tor another house would have snapped him up in about 5 seconds).

That said, what happened was just awful. And the worst part is that authors like Tregillis basically had all of the oomph of their initial novels blow away in the wind without any fault of their own.

Does anyone have a list of authors that were affected? I know Ian Tregillis and John Brown had a hard time but were there any other authors that got the short end of the stick?

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From Angry Robot Books -

The Empire of the Blood trilogy by Gav Thorpe (Omnibus)

Publisher: Angry Robot (September 24, 2013)

On September 24th, Gav Thorpe’s massive fantasy trilogy Empire of the Blood will be published in ebook format worldwide, and in paper format in the US and Canada.

Coming in at a whopping 1,024 pages (!) the volume comprises three novels:

* The Crown of the Blood

* The Crown of the Conqueror

* The Crown of the Usurper

UK (and elsewhere) folk wanting to get their hands on this epic tale can order online at The Book Depository, which currently has it listed for just £7.70!

http://angryrobotbooks.com/2013/06/the-empire-of-the-blood-omnibus/

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Does anyone have a list of authors that were affected? I know Ian Tregillis and John Brown had a hard time but were there any other authors that got the short end of the stick?

Melinda Snodgrass's Reason trilogy was also held up.

A lot of people assumed the mammoth delays on David Keck's third book were also part of this, but it turns out that he's just writing really, really slowly (last September he was apparently just 15,000 words away from finishing his trilogy, and there has been no update since then).

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The Confluence Trilogy Omnibus: Child of the River, Ancients of Days, Shrine of Stars by Paul McAuley:

Gollancz (27 Dec 2013)

PM: I've re-edited the three Confluence books - the story of a world-changing hero, set in the very far future in a very strange world. 1200 manuscript pages. They're coming out in a single volume at the end of the year. I'm excited by that.

And I have ideas for two books set in the universe of my Jackaroo stories, in which aliens arrive on Earth to help, give humanity access to junk-littered worlds, and sit back and watch the fun. I'm working on the first of those right now. It's called Something Coming Through.

http://unlikelyworlds.blogspot.in/2013/06/q.html

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Total War Rome: Destroy Carthage by David Gibbins (Macmillan/Thomas Dunne Books) (3 September 2013) :

How far would you go for Rome?

Carthage, 146 BC. This is the story of Fabius Petronius Secundus – Roman legionary and centurion – and his rise to power: from his first battle against the Macedonians, that seals the fate of Alexander the Great's Empire, to total war in North Africa and the Seige of Carthage.

Fabius's success brings him admiration and respect, but also attracts greed and jealousy – the closest allies can become the bitterest of enemies. And then there is Julia, of the Caesar family – a dark horse in love with both Fabius and his rival Paullus – who causes a vicious feud.

Ultimately for Fabius, it will come down to one question: how much is he prepared to sacrifice for his vision of Rome?

Based on Total War: Rome II, the bestselling game, Destroy Carthage is the first in an epic series of novels. It is not only the tale of one man’s fate, but is also a journey to the core of Roman times, through the world of extraordinary military tactics and political intrigue that Rome’s warriors and citizens used to cheat death.

http://www.panmacmillan.com/totalwarbooks

http://www.panmacmillan.com/totalwarrome

http://us.macmillan.com/totalwarromedestroycarthage/DavidGibbins

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Total War Rome: Destroy Carthage by David Gibbins (Macmillan/Thomas Dunne Books) (3 September 2013) :

Oddball.

This is just another Roman historical fiction novel. Unless the main character spends the whole book destroying legions of the enemy because of their poor AI or bitching about how fan mods would make the war better, it's not going to have anything to do with the game at all.

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Oddball.

This is just another Roman historical fiction novel. Unless the main character spends the whole book destroying legions of the enemy because of their poor AI or bitching about how fan mods would make the war better, it's not going to have anything to do with the game at all.

Shameless. At least they could have used a good game, like this.

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Blurb for Gilman's The Revolutions:

A glorious planetary romance from critically acclaimed SF author Felix Gilman

Following his spectacularly reviewed The Half-Made World duology, Felix Gilman pens a sweeping stand-alone tale of Victorian science fiction, space exploration, and planetary romance.

In 1893, as young journalist Asa Shaw is at work in British Museum Reading Room, a storm hits London and wreaks unprecedented damage. In its aftermath, Asa’s newspaper closes, owing him money, and all his debts come due at once. His fiance Jo takes a job as a stenographer for some of the fashionable spiritualist and occult societies of fin de siècle London society. Asa accompanies her to one of these meetings and is given a job lead. It seems to be accounting work, but at a salary many times what any clerk could expect. The work is long and peculiar, and the men spend all day performing unnerving calculations that make them hallucinate or even go mad...but the money is compelling.

Things are beginning to look up when the wages of dabbling in the esoteric suddenly come due: A war breaks out between competing magical societies, and Asa interrupts Jo in the middle of an elaborate occult exploration. This rash move turns out to be dire, as Jo's consciousness is stranded at the outer limits of a psychic day trip. Which, Asa is chagrined to find, was somewhere in the vicinity of Mars.

Asa won't give up the love of his life so easily and vows to do anything it takes to reunite her mind and body...even if he must follow her to Mars.

http://edelweiss.abo...?sku=0765337177

and for Davidson's Unwrapped Sky:

A stunningly original debut by a young master of the New Weird

A hundred years ago, the Minotaurs saved Caeli-Amur from conquest. Now, three very different people may hold the keys to the city's survival.

Once, it is said, gods used magic to create reality, with powers that defied explanation. But the magic—or science, if one believes those who try to master the dangers of thaumaturgy—now seems more like a dream. Industrial workers for House Technis, farmers for House Arbor, and fisher folk of House Marin eke out a living and hope for a better future. But the philosopher-assassin Kata plots a betrayal that will cost the lives of godlike Minotaurs; the ambitious bureaucrat Boris Autec rises through the ranks as his private life turns to ashes; and the idealistic seditionist Maximilian hatches a mad plot to unlock the vaunted secrets of the Great Library of Caeli-Enas, drowned in the fabled city at the bottom of the sea, its strangeness visible from the skies above.

In a novel of startling originality and riveting suspense, these three people, reflecting all the hopes and dreams of the ancient city, risk everything for a future that they can create only by throwing off the shackles of tradition and superstition, as their destinies collide at ground zero of a conflagration that will transform the world . . . or destroy it.

http://edelweiss.abo...?sku=0765329883

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