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Tad Williams announces THE LAST KING OF OSTEN ARD, a sequel to MEMORY, SORROW AND THORN


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According to the UK publisher Hodder's database, Empire of Grass will be released in October 2017:

https://www.hodder.co.uk/books/detail.page?isbn=9781473603288

 

UK cover art for The Heart of What Was Lost and The Witchwood Crown:

https://www.hodder.co.uk/assets/HodderStoughton/img/book/636/isbn9781473646636.jpg

https://www.hodder.co.uk/assets/HodderStoughton/img/book/202/isbn9781473603202.jpg

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2 hours ago, AncalagonTheBlack said:

Meh.

The Orbit Otherland covers were brilliant. These are...not. Shadowmarch isn't too bad, as Orbit dropped the ball a bit with the previous editions, but these are still a bit unexciting.

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On 9/22/2016 at 4:10 AM, Ser Scot A Ellison said:

I can't wait to see the new maps.  I always found the maps in the original books tough to follow.

I think you will love them. I know I love both of the ones I've seen. Four or five more are in development. (The manuscript is massive).

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New blurb for The Heart of What Was Lost:

http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/546308/the-heart-of-what-was-lost-by-tad-williams/

New York Times-bestselling Tad Williams’ ground-breaking epic fantasy saga of Osten Ard begins an exciting new cycle! • Perfect beginning for new readers!
 
The perfect introduction to the epic fantasy world of Osten Ard, The Heart of What Was Lost is Tad Williams’ follow-up to his internationally bestselling landmark trilogy. Osten Ard inspired a generation of modern fantasy writers, including George R.R. Martin, Patrick Rothfuss, and Christopher Paolini, and defined Tad Williams as one of the most important fantasy writers of our time. 




 
A NOVEL OF OSTEN ARD
 
At the end of Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Ineluki the Storm King, an undead spirit of horrifying, demonic power, came within moments of stopping Time itself and obliterating humankind. He was defeated by a coalition of mortal men and women joined by his own deathless descendants, the Sithi.

In the wake of the Storm King’s fall, Ineluki’s loyal minions, the Norns, dark cousins to the Sithi, choose to flee the lands of men and retreat north to Nakkiga, their ancient citadel within the hollow heart of the mountain called Stormspike. But as the defeated Norns make their way to this last haven, the mortal Rimmersman Duke Isgrimnur leads an army in pursuit, determined to end the Norns’ attacks and defeat their ageless Queen Utuk’ku for all time.

Two southern soldiers, Porto and Endri, joined the mortal army to help achieve this ambitious goal—though as they venture farther and farther into the frozen north, braving the fierce resistance and deadly magics of the retreating Norns, they cannot help but wonder what they are doing so very far from home. Meanwhile, the Norns must now confront the prospect of extinction at the hands of Isgrimnur and his mortal army.

Viyeki, a leader of the Norns’ military engineers, the Order of Builders, desperately seeks a way to help his people reach their mountain—and then stave off the destruction of their race. For the two armies will finally clash in a battle to be remembered as the Siege of Nakkiga; a battle so strange and deadly, so wracked with dark enchantment, that it threatens to destroy not just one side but quite possibly all.

Trapped inside the mountain as the mortals batter at Nakkiga’s gates, Viyeki the Builder will discover disturbing secrets about his own people, mysteries both present and past, represented by the priceless gem known as The Heart of What Was Lost.

Outside the mountain, Porto, Endri, and their commander Isgrimnur encounter frightening questions of their own, whose answers will affect all the lands of Osten Ard for generations to come. And in the end, both besiegers and besieged will confront terrible truths about love and loyalty—and about the lies all souls, mortal or immortal, must tell themselves to keep from going mad.

Length is 224 pages.

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23 hours ago, Calibandar said:

Was that interview with Williams ever posted that was talked about a few months ago?

Unfortunatelly not yet. Editing takes much longer than expected.

Sorry. We'll link it here when it is online. Promise.

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