What are your Ten Most Anticipated books?

[Stego]

It's been way too long since I started a list thread.

I'm putting together my 'wanted' list for future releases right now, (Yeah, I'm neurotic.) and I'd like to hear what everyone else is looking forward to. My list looks like this (In no particular order):

1. A Dance With Dragons by George R.R. Martin (duh.)

2. Black Man by Richard Morgan

3. World Without End by Ken Follett (Sequel to Pillars of The Earth.)

4. Neuropath by R. Scott Bakker

5. The Jack Vance Treasury by Jack Vance (Subterranean Press)

6. Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch

7. Un Lun Dun by China Mieville

8. Brasyl by Ian McDonald

9. A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan

10. Axis by Robert Charles Wilson

[Olaf]

1. Shadowplay by Tad Williams

2. A Dance with Dragons by GRRM

3. Red Seas under Red Skies by Scott Lynch

4. The Sharing Knife Vol 1 and Vol. 2 by Lois McMaster Bujold

5. World Without End by Ken Follett

6. Ravens of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley & Diana L. Paxson

7. The Alton Gift by Marion Zimmer Bradley & Deborah J. Ross

8. The New Moon's Arms by Nalo Hopkinson

9. The Children of Húrin by J.R.R. Tolkien

10. Harry Potter 7 by J.K. Rowling

[Werthead]

A Dance with Dragons by George RR Martin

Neuropath by R. Scott Bakker

The Aspect-Emperor by R. Scott Bakker (or Book 1 of the AE Duology)

Reaper's Gale by Steven Erikson

The Children of Hurin by JRR Tolkien

A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan

Galactic North by Alastair Reynolds

The Watchtower by Alastair Reynolds

Return of the Crimson Guard by Ian Cameron Esslemont

The Void by Peter F. Hamilton

[Calibandar]

I was just thinking about this today.

In order of anticipation

1) Dance with Dragons-Martin ( Summer 2007?)

2) The Aspect Emperor-Bakker ( Summer/Fall 2007?)

3) The Children of Hurin-Tolkien ( April 2007)

4) Renegade's Magic-Hobb ( July 2007)

5) Ysabel-Kay ( January 2007)

6) The Broken Kings-Holdstock ( January 2007)

In random order:

* Winterbirth- Brian Ruckley ( October 2006)

* Eifelheim- Michael Flynn ( October 2006)

* Farewell Summer-Ray Bradbury ( October 2006)

* Ilario: Lion's Eye- Mary Gentle ( November 2006)

* Red Seas under Red Skies-Scott Lynch ( July 2007)

* Before they are hanged-Joe Abercrombie ( March 2007)

* Forever war omnibus-Joe Haldeman ( November 2006)

* Galactic North- Alistair Reynolds ( October 2006)

* Sword from Red Ice- JV Jones ( November 2007)

* Brasyl- Ian McDonald ( May 2007)

* The Entire and the Rose-Kay Kenyon ( April 2007)

* Axis-Robert Charles Wilson ( 2007)

[Werthead]

Aspect Emperor's UK release has been confirmed as May 2008. My guess is that that the US and Canada may get it 4-5 months earlier, perhaps right at the end of 2007. Scott said a while back he was going to go from a 12-month schedule to an 18-month one. The 12-month schedule was too nuts.

[Bellis]

Limiting myself to the next year...

1. ADWD (Martin)

2. HP7 (Rowling) {braces} only this high cuz its the last book

3. Ken Follett has a sequel to Pillars of the Earth??!

4. Ink - Hal Duncan

5. the new Pynchon

6. Aspect Emperor (Bakker)

7. the new Mieville (only this low cuz it's not Bas-Lag)

8. the sequel to Spin (Robert Charles Wilson)

9. Red Seas Under Red Skies (Lynch)

10. the new Kay

[Calibandar]

Aspect Emperor's UK release has been confirmed as May 2008.

By Orbit?

Scott said a while back he was going to go from a 12-month schedule to an 18-month one

I know, and he said in the same sentence that because of that he would expect it to be released sometime in the late spring or summer of 2007. This was 5 months back however, just before he went offline. It's possible that he's suffered a delay of course, but hopefully not.

Edit: Here's the quote:

"The contract with Orbit UK has already been agreed upon, and the contracts with Penguin and Overlook will probably be wrapped up soon. The delivery date I'm giving is January 07, which should put the pub date somewhere late spring, early summer"

"I've been working on AE all this time, mostly hammering out scenes and details. Note that the dates I gave correspond exactly with the 18 month schedule. In my original Penguin contract, the time from inception to publication was a year"

There seem to be no firm plans for a Neuropath release however.

[Tears of Lys]

Dance with Dragons

The Children of Hurin-Tolkien

Seventh Harry Potter book (as yet unnamed.)

And Ran and Linda's book

There's a lot to be said for anticipation, though. I'll be sorry to see Harry Potter end.

[Xray the Enforcer]

In no particular order.

A Dance With Dragons -- GRRM

Neuropath -- Bakker

Aspect-Emperor -- Bakker

Ink -- Hal Duncan

HP7 -- Rowling (just want to get the fucking thing done with)

The Road -- Cormac McCarthy (might be out now, actually. But I've been waitin' for this one for awhile)

Red Seas Under Red Skies -- Scott Lynch

[Sir Thursday]

1. Reaper's Gale by Steven Erikson

2. Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch

3. The Void Trilogy Book 1 by Peter F Hamilton

4. A Dance with Dragons by George RR Martin

5. Return of the Crimson Guard by Ian Cameron Esselmont

6. The Aspect-Emperor by R. Scott Bakker

7. Stormed Fortress by Janny Wurts

8. Ink by Hal Duncan

9. Harry Potter Book 7 by JK Rowling (Anyone know what it's going to be titled?)

I can't think of something to complete the list...possibly the final (supposedly) WoT volume...but I can't remember what that is called at this moment.

Sir Thursday

[RaceBannon42]

A Dance with Dragons : Martin

Red Seas Under Red Skies : Lynch

The Aspect Emporer : Bakker

The Born Queen : Keyes

A Memory of Light : Jordan

A Sword from Red Ice : Jones

The Winter Cities ? : Abraham

Brasyl : MacDonald

[DJ Dawn]

Anything Bakker or Martin. Anything.

Plus Reaper's Gale-Erikson and Red Seas Under Red Skies- Lynch

[RedEyedGhost]

Pretty much the same as everybody else, but here it is:

1. A Dance with Dragons by some guy you may have heard of

2. Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch

3. The Aspect Emporer by R Scott Bakker

4. The Born Queen by Greg Keyes

5. Fugitives of Chaos by John C. Wright

6. Neuropath by R Scott Bakker

7. Reaper's Gale by Steven Erickson

8. Return of the Crimson Guard by Ian Cameron Esslemont

9. Axis by Robert Charles Wilson

10.And whatever book the next Dunk and Egg short story is published in. (It is finished, right?)

[Bastard of Godsgrace]

Only 10? OK, here they are:

1. A Dance wtih Dragons by GRRM

2. Fatal Revenant by Stephen Donaldson

3. Aspect-Emperor by R. Scott Bakker

4. Reaper's Gale by Steven Erikson

5. Blindsight by Peter Watts

6. Eifelheim by Michael Flynn

7. Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay

8. Soldier of Sidon by Gene Wolfe (or is it already out?)

9. Return of the Crimson Guard by Ian Cameron Esslemont

10. Fugitives of Chaos by John C. Wright

Honorable mentions: Neuropath by R. Scott Bakker, Feast of Souls by C. S. Friedman, Nova Swing by M. John Harrison, Ink by Hal Duncan.

[Calibandar]

8. Soldier of Sidon by Gene Wolfe (or is it already out?)

Edit: See Firgoret's answer below.

I was wondering when Richard Morgan is going to come up with that Fantasy series he's been talking about, because I see he has another SF novel ( Black Man) coming out this month. Any word on that? Seems like he could provide an interesting take.

Ilario: The Lion's eye by Mary Gentle and Blindsight by Peter Watts are two titles I forgot to mention above.

I should also mention that I'm really looking forward to John Julius Norwich's upcoming history book, The Middle Sea: History of the Mediterranean due in October.

Is there any word on when Axis will be released? It seems to be sometime in 2007. What I could find from Wilson Axis is:

"As difficult as it was to beat into shape, I think it’s a good book. Without going into too much detail, it looks beyond the Arch that was put in place by the alien “Hypotheticals” in Spin — linking Earth (by sea!) to a new and resource-rich world, for inscrutable purposes. We learn a little more about a universe a few billion years older — and more complex — than the one we currently inhabit."

I've also been considering buying The Gollancz Encyclopedia of SF Technology due this month from Peter Hamilton and George Mann.

[Marcelo Rebelo Firqoralas]

I have way too many unread books to be able to think about interesting, unpublished things without feeling a bit guilty, but here are a few things:

• A Dance with Dragons obviously.
  
• Soldier of Sidon by Gene Wolfe (Even though I have still to read Soldier of Arete. And I don't think it's been released yet; Amazon says October 17.)
  
• Pirate Freedom by Gene Wolfe.
  
• Axis by Robert Charles Wilson (I didn't love Spin, but Axis actually sounds more interesting).
  
• Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay. (It'll be interesting to see him go off in a new direction and write something that isn't a thinly disguised fantasy version of a historical country.)
  
• Endless Things by John Crowley. (OK, perhaps not. I haven't read anything in the Aegypt sequence yet, but if this one gets good reviews then I'm definitely going to pick up the series.)
  

[Brys]

1. A Dance with Dragons - George RR Martin

2. Red Seas under Red Skies - Scott Lynch

3. Neuropath - R Scott Bakker

4. Reaper's Gale - Steven Erikson

5. A Sword from Red Ice - J.V. Jones

6. Un Lun Dun - China Mieville

7. Volume Two of the Deepgate Codex (I don't know what it's called yet) - Alan Campbell

8. Caine Black Knife - Matthew Stover

9. The Aspect Emperor - R Scott Bakker

10. The Born Queen - Greg Keyes

So it's pretty similar to everyone else's.

[Calibandar]

Firgoret

Pirate Freedom by Gene Wolfe

Is that his next project?

[Werthead]

By Orbit?

Confirmed by Bakker's UK publisher on the SFX Forum (thread has since been deleted though).

Also waiting for A Sword from Red Ice by JV Jones, but not too fussed about it since there's another book after that as well.

Both books are by Orbit and apparently Orbit's schedule is so full now that when a book is delivered, it has to wait a fair old while before they can assign it a release slot. They are dealing with the problem. The only author they're going to extreme lengths to release as soon as their new book is ready is Robert Jordan.

[Marcelo Rebelo Firqoralas]

Firgoret

Pirate Freedom by Gene Wolfe

Is that his next project?

Yes; though I'm unsure if there will be a new short story collection published before it. I really don't know very much about it, more than that it was mentioned about a year on the Wolfe mailing list that it existed "in penultimate draft". It's supposed to be a historical fantasy novel, presumably about pirates, but nothing else is known of it.