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Is he going to publish several of these (for other side characters)? Does anyone know?

No. Or no plans to do so have been announced. A 22,000 word Bast novella will appear in the anthology, Rogues, on june 17th, 2014. The next announcement will be the publication date for a novel featuring Laniel Young Again which seems likely for 2015. But, y'know, Rothfuss.

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No. Or no plans to do so have been announced. A 22,000 word Bast novella will appear in the anthology, Rogues, on june 17th, 2014. The next announcement will be the publication date for a novel featuring Laniel Young Again which seems likely for 2015. But, y'know, Rothfuss.

Any info on The Doors of Stone? :lol: I know. Rothfuss.

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Any info on The Doors of Stone? :lol: I know. Rothfuss.

No with a but... DAW will be publishing another Rothfuss novel (centered around Laniel Young Again) before DoS. As of mid-March, that one isn't finished either. I imagine they're hoping for 2015; so 2016 on DoS at the earliest.

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Three novels based on the upcoming video game Elite: Dangerous are being published by Gollancz. The original Elite (which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year) was accompanied by a novella called The Dark Wheel by Robert Holdstock, who went on to write the classic Mythago Wood sequence for many years, many of them published by Gollancz (before he sadly passed away in 2009), so there is some history there.

Elite: Wanted by Gavin Smith and Stephen Deas

A rip-roaring space epic told from two points of view – the hunted, and the hunter. When a routine bit of piracy goes wrong, the crew of the Song of Stone realise that there’s a bounty hunter on their tail. One who might, finally, be able to outclass them. The Dragon Queen is feared across space, and for good reason. But even the bounty hunter doesn’t realise what she’s been hired to do. Or what is in the container she’s been sent to retrieve. And she’s not the only hunter in the game…

Gavin Smith and Stephen Deas are regular Gollancz authors – having produced 15 books between them over the last few years – and their combined talent makes this a gripping tale.

Elite: Nemorensis by Simon Spurrier

The story of an unlikely pair of star-crossed lovers who steal a spaceship and go on the run, attacking at random and revelling in the fame and glory their violence brings them. Celebrated by the jaded youth of the Federation and urged on to ever more flashy acts of destruction, they know it won’t be long before they are caught and killed. But someone is following the couple. Someone who knows why they are so obsessed with each other. Who knows where they are heading. Who knows why. Someone who knows more about them than they do themselves. And has another plan for their deaths…

Simon is currently writing X-MEN for Marvel Comics and CROSSED for Avatar Press, and has written for Judge Dredd, Wolverine and many other popular characters. He has published two novels with Hodder and five licensed novels based on Warhammer and 2000AD properties.

Elite: Docking is Dangerous by Gideon DeFoe

On what might be the worst planet in the universe, a young man dreams of the stars. Adventure! Lasers! Women! And the ultimate goal – to become Elite! Unfortunately, Misha has to do his chores first. And learn how to talk to Phoebe, the beautiful customs officer. And leave the planet. But the death of a famous author unexpectedly drags Misha and Phoebe into a system-wide conspiracy, complete with smuggling, international art thieves, multi-system corporations, canapés and exploding pigs. This is Misha’s chance to prove he has what it takes! After all, surely anyone can be Elite if they dream…

Gideon is best known for his comic novels featuring THE PIRATES! and was the scriptwriter for the Oscar-nominated Aardman film THE PIRATES! IN AN ADVENTURE WITH SCIENTISTS, based on his books.

The e-editions of the books will be out on 15 May. The hardcovers will accompany the release of the game later this year.

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Amnesia by Peter Carey
The new novel by double Man Booker Prize-winning novelist Peter Carey will be out from publisher Faber on 6th November.
The cyber underworld of radicals and hackers collides with international power politics in the incredible new novel from twice Man Booker Prize winner, Peter Carey.

Amnesia has been unveiled with a teaser site that shows lines of computer code processing and revealing the synopsis, which sees a worm entering the computer systems of hundreds of Australian prisons and unlocking the doors. The worm spreads to impact on US prisons as well, announcing: "THE CORPORATION IS UNDER OUR CONTROL. THE ANGEL DECLARES YOU FREE."
Has a young Australian woman declared cyber war on the United States? (The Justice Department thinks so.) Or was her Angel Worm intended only to open the prison doors of those unfortunates detained by Australia's harsh immigration policies? Did American suffer collateral damage? Can she be extradited to a country with the death penalty? Is she innocent? Can she be saved?
Enter her mother, the actress Celine Baillieux. With Céline comes the outrageous Woody Townes, a Melbourne property developer, millionaire, and patron of left wing causes. Murray delivers half a million dollars bail to the court, appoints a distinguished lawyer, and hires an old mate to write a biography to vindicate the young woman.
The old mate is Felix Moore, known to his fellow journalists as Felix Moore-or-less correct. His politics are far too left. His grasp of reality is sometimes unreliable. He is a magnet for law suits. His career is over, and then he gets this chance. I had fought the good fight all my life , he confesses, but I had also become an awful creature along the way.
It will be our great good fortune to live inside Felix's comic, cowardly, angry, fundamentally humane character as he attempts to find redemption.
Amnesia is a masterful novel, both dark and funny, whose tangled roots drive deep into the denied history of the United States, the CIA, and its relationship with it's old friend and client, Australia.

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Heraclix and Pomp: A Novel of the Fabricated and the Fey by Forrest Aguirre (Underland Press)



Hello Devilfish! by Ron Dakron (Three Rooms Press)



Homefront by Scott James Magner (Arche Press)



We Are All Completely Fine by Daryl Gregory (Tachyon Publications)



Yesterday's Kin by Nancy Kress (Tachyon Publications)



The Wilds by Julia Elliott (Tin House Books)


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Head of Zeus Autumn 2014 Catalogue




Firefall by Peter Watts


Publisher: Head of Zeus (14 Aug 2014)


FIRST CONTACT: 13 FEBRUARY 2082.


The day sixty-five thousand objects burned briefly around Earth: an unexplained moment of surveillance by an alien intelligence. We called it Firefall.


Two months later, we sent the Theseus reconnaisance mission into deep space. Somewhere past Jupiter, we lost contact.


For the last twenty-five years we have waited for word. No further sightings of ""fireflies"" have been reported.


But all this is about to change. For a man hiding in the Oregon desert is about to play a key role in the next stage of human evolution. And first he must find the Theseus mission...

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A Vision of Fire (EarthEnd Saga #1) by Gillian Anderson & Jeff Rovin


Publisher: Simon & Schuster/ Simon451 (October 7, 2014)


The first novel from iconic X-Files star Gillian Anderson and New York Times bestselling author Jeff Rovin: a science fiction thriller of epic proportions.


Renowned child psychologist Caitlin O’Hara is a single mom trying to juggle her job, her son, and a lackluster dating life. Her world is suddenly upturned when Maanik, the daughter of India’s ambassador to the United Nations, starts speaking in tongues and having violent visions. Caitlin is sure that her fits have something to do with the recent assassination attempt on her father—a shooting that has escalated nuclear tensions between India and Pakistan to dangerous levels—but when teenagers around the world start having similar outbursts, Caitlin begins to think that there’s a more sinister force at work.


In Haiti, a student claws at her throat, drowning on dry land. In Iran, a boy suddenly and inexplicably sets himself on fire. Animals, too, are acting irrationally, from rats in New York City to birds in South America to ordinary house pets. With Asia on the cusp of nuclear war, Caitlin must race across the globe to uncover the mystical links among these seemingly unrelated incidents in order to save her patient—and perhaps the world.



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New publishing date and short description for Valkyrie's Song (Wolfsangel Cycle #4) by M.D. Lachlan



Publisher: Gollancz (20 Nov 2014)



The Harrowing has come to the North and a wolf that will kill a god is on the road . . .



MD Lachlan's brooding and powerful tales of Vikings, Norse gods and werewolves has already won praise from, amongst others, Joe Abercrombie, Adam Roberts, Mike Carey and Chris Wooding.


With an original and terrifying take on magic, an ability to bring the Norse gods to vivid life on the page, a keen historical eye and a knack for fast-moving and brutally effective plots MD Lachlan's series has won over critics, fellow authors and readers alike. This is building to be a key fantasy series for the decade.


Volume four moves the action to Norman England and an immortal wolf and an immortal woman on the run, fighting for their lives.



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Bad news from Amazon: Catherynne Valente's first science fiction novel, Radiance, seems to have lost its August 2014 release date. Somewhat bummed out but not at all surprised. It no longer seems to appear at all on Amazon US when you search the title and author's name, but an amazon product page for the novel can be accessed through the magic of Google for some reason. Said page lists May 1st 2015 as the new release date, which would be weird, as I believe its a Friday, and is almost certainly not the final date. Still, hopefully it gives some sense of when the book might be hoped for, around the second quarter next year. As long as it takes. It will be beautiful.



Good news from Amazon: Lauren Beukes' new weird crime novel, Broken Monsters, is now listed for September 16 2014. This one's apparently about a rash of killings in present-day -- or roughly present-day -- Detroit in which the bodies have been somehow blended with animals. Sounds disturbing.


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The Raven’s Banquet (Richard Treadwell #2) by Clifford Beal


Publisher: Solaris Books (13 May 2014)


Germany 1626: A War, a Witch, a Reckoning….


Richard Treadwell is a young man who dreams of glory and honour on the battlefield—and the plunder and riches that would follow. With the help of his father, he journeys to Hamburg to seek his fortune as a mercenary in the Danish army when it intervenes in the vast war that rages in northern Germany between the Catholic Hapsburg empire and the Protestant princes of the north.


But he brings with him an old secret—and the potential seed of his own destruction—as he descends into a horrific maelstrom of conflict and slaughter that quickly destroys his illusions of adventure, of right and wrong, and of good and evil.


When his fate is foreshadowed by a young gypsy woman, he discovers that he cannot outrun what he left behind in England and he soon finds himself thrown headlong into a series of bloody skirmishes alongside the Danes that strip him of conscience and harden his heart. The opposing armies close for a battle that will be the turning point in the struggle for the kingdom—and in the war for his soul. But even as Treadwell steels himself for the final contest against the forces of the Holy Roman Emperor, an unseen enemy stalks him within his own camp.


Fleeing the battlefield, his life takes an even darker turn when he stumbles upon a coven of peasant women dwelling deep in the forest of the Harz Mountains, women that have their own terrible secrets to protect—and a burning hatred to avenge.


The hero of Gideon’s Angel returns to tell how his journey into the supernatural began.





The Last Oprichnik (Danilov Quintet #5) by Jasper Kent


Publisher: Bantam Press (23 Oct 2014)


Russia - 1917. Zmyeevich, king of all vampires, is dead.


History records that the great voordalak - known across Europe as Dracula - perished in 1893 beneath the ramparts of his own castle, deep in the mountains of Wallachia. In Russia, the Romanov tsars are free of the curse that has plagued their blood for two centuries.


But two decades later and Tsar Nicholas II faces a new threat - a threat from his own people. War has brought Russia to her knees and the people are hungry for change. Revolution is in the air.


Mihail Konstantinovich Danilov - who himself carries Romanov blood - welcomes the prospect of a new regime. Like his ancestors he once fought to save the Romanovs from the threat that Zmyeevich brought them. Fought and won. But now he sees no future for a Russia ruled by a tyrant. He is joined in the struggle by his uncle, Dmitry Alekseevich - a creature born in a different era, over a century before. For more than half his existence he has been a vampire, and yet he still harbours one very human desire; that his country should be free.


But the curse that infects the blood of the Romanovs cannot be so easily forgotten and Mihail soon discovers that it - that he - may become the means by which a terror once thought eradicated might be resurrected . . .



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Of Bone and Thunder by Chris Evans (Simon & Schuster)


Publisher: Simon & Schuster (October 14, 2014)


Apocalypse Now meets The Lord of the Rings in a bold new fantasy from the acclaimed author of the Iron Elves trilogy, filled with “heroic action that keeps fans coming back” (Publishers Weekly).


Channeling the turbulent period of the Vietnam War and its ruthless pitting of ideologies, cultures, generations, and races against each other, military historian and acclaimed fantasy writer Chris Evans takes a daring new approach to the traditional world of sword and sorcery by thrusting it into a maelstrom of racial animus, drug use, rebellion, and a growing war that seems at once unwinnable and with no end in sight. In this thrilling epic, right and wrong, country and honor, freedom and sacrifice are all put to the ultimate test in the heart of a dark, bloody, otherworldly jungle.


In this strange, new world deep among the shadows under a triple-canopy jungle and plagued by dangers real and imagined, soldiers strive to fulfill a mission they don’t understand and are ill-equipped to carry out. And high above them, the heavy rush of wings slashing through the humid air herald a coming wave of death and destruction, and just possibly, salvation.



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