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Yeah, I'd swear blind that there were interviews around the time that NotW came out where Rothfuss said that exact thing. But since then he's said not, Doors of Stone will be the last Kvothe book and there will be no 'present day' story featuring the adult, innkeeper Kvothe.


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Yeah, his interviews really don't leave a lot of wiggle room. I suspect we might see some kind of situation where he writes one book but it'll be too big to be published at once and will be split into 2 or 3.

Then again, he also said there'd be no more than a year between books and that everything was already written ...

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From Gollancz:
War Dogs by Greg Bear (August 21, 2014)
The Glorious Angels by Justina Robson (October 16, 2014)

The groundbreaking new novel from one of the genre's most respected authors: a thrilling mix of science, magic and sexual politics.
Justina Robson (acclaimed author of NATURAL HISTORY, LIVING NEXT DOOR TO THE GOD OF LOVE and the QUANTUM GRAVITY series) is back with a cutting edge novel of science, adventure and ideas.
On a world where science and magic are hard to tell apart a stranger arrives in a remote town with news of political turmoil to come. And a young woman learns that she must free herself from the role she has accepted.
Always vivid, always full of stunning ideas and imagery, Justina Robson is the Clarke Award-winning author of some of our most exciting, yet philosophical SF. A new novel from her is a major event in the SF calendar.

Castle/Fourlands #5 by Steph Swainston (1 Nov 2014)
Empires: Infiltration by Gavin G. Smith (13 Nov 2014)
Empires: Extraction by Stephen Deas (13 Nov 2014)
The Brothel in Rosenstrasse & Other Stories: The Best Short Fiction of Michael Moorcock Vol 2 (13 Nov 2014)
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Probably not, but GRRM could very well do an alternate ending, or change his mind for the book ending after the TV ending is transmitted. He's already done that with geography - changing the map of eastern Essos completely after HBO had already used it - so why not with the story? Not to mention that the books have a lot more characters and storylines to resolve than the TV show does, so the endings will be different to a degree anyway.

GRRM said that changing the ending to a story halfway through is a terrible idea so I doubt that he will do it with ASOIAF. Also, the map of eastern Essos has been fairly minor to the story so far and he already said that we won't be seeing as far east as Asshai IIRC.

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GRRM said that changing the ending to a story halfway through is a terrible idea

He actually said that changing things because of fan opinions or fans guessing the answers to mysteries is a terrible idea, but GRRM has also clearly changed many aspects of ASoIaF on the fly as the series has gone on (hence why we're now at seven books rather than three). What I meant was that if GRRM himself comes up with a better idea on how to end certain storylines after the TV show passes that point, I don't see any reasons for him not to change them; the TV show takes place in a totally disconnected alternate universe to the books anyway.

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First blurb for Stephen King's Mr. Mercedes:

In a mega-stakes, high-suspense race against time, three of the most unlikely and winning heroes Stephen King has ever created try to stop a lone killer from blowing up thousands.

In the frigid pre-dawn hours, in a distressed Midwestern city, hundreds of desperate unemployed folks are lined up for a spot at a job fair. Without warning, a lone driver plows through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, running over the innocent, backing up, and charging again. Eight people are killed; fifteen are wounded. The killer escapes.

In another part of town, months later, a retired cop named Bill Hodges is still haunted by the unsolved crime. When he gets a crazed letter from someone who self-identifies as the "perk" and threatens an even more diabolical attack, Hodges wakes up from his depressed and vacant retirement, hell-bent on preventing another tragedy.

Brady Hartfield lives with his alcoholic mother in the house where he was born. He loved the feel of death under the wheels of the Mercedes, and he wants that rush again. Only Bill Hodges, with a couple of highly unlikely allies, can apprehend the killer before he strikes again. And they have no time to lose, because Bradys next mission, if it succeeds, will kill or maim thousands.

Mr. Mercedes is a war between good and evil, from the master of suspense whose insight into the mind of this obsessed, insane killer is chilling and unforgettable.

http://edelweiss.abovethetreeline.com/ProductDetailPage.aspx?group=related&sku=1476754454

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The Magician’s Land by Lev Grossman (Viking Press)
publication date: August 5, 2014

Publisher Viking has provided the following synopsis as well:
In The Magician’s Land, the stunning conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Magicians trilogy—on-sale from Viking on August 5—Quentin Coldwater has been cast out of Fillory, the secret magical land of his childhood dreams. With nothing left to lose he returns to where his story be­gan, the Brakebills Preparatory College of Magic. But he can’t hide from his past, and it’s not long before it comes looking for him.
Along with Plum, a brilliant young under­graduate with a dark secret of her own, Quentin sets out on a crooked path through a magical demi­monde of gray magic and desperate characters. But all roads lead back to Fillory, and his new life takes him to old haunts, like Antarctica, and to buried secrets and old friends he thought were lost for­ever. He uncovers the key to a sorcery masterwork, a spell that could create magical utopia, a new Fillory—but casting it will set in motion a chain of events that will bring Earth and Fillory crashing together. To save them he will have to risk sacrific­ing everything.
The Magician’s Land is an intricate thriller, a fantastical epic, and an epic of love and redemp­tion that brings the Magicians trilogy to a magnifi­cent conclusion, confirming it as one of the great achievements in modern fantasy. It’s the story of a boy becoming a man, an apprentice becoming a master, and a broken land finally becoming whole.

The Relic Guild by Edward Cox (Gollancz)
Publication date : June 2014

Here’s a little blurb about the book…

It was said the Labyrinth had once been the great meeting place, a sprawling city at the heart of an endless maze. But it has become an abandoned forbidden zone, where humans are trapped behind boundary walls a hundred feet high.
Young Clara struggles to survive in a dangerous and dysfunctional city, where eyes are keen, nights are long, and the use of magic is punishable by death. She knows her days are numbered. The only people Clara can trust are the Relic Guild, a secret band of magickers sworn to protect the Labyrinth. But the Relic Guild are now too few. To save the Labyrinth – and the lives of millions – Clara and the Relic Guild must find a way to contact the worlds beyond their walls.

The Librarian by Mikhail Elizarov (Author) , Andrew Bromfield (Translator)
Publisher: Pushkin Press (April 24, 2014)

An epic full of video game-like battles, Russian landscapes and old babushkas, who fight with scythes...

As the introduction to this book will tell you, the books by Gromov, obscure and long forgotten propaganda author of the Soviet era, have such an effect on their readers that they suddenly enjoy supernatural powers. Understandably, their readers need to keep accessing these books at all cost and gather into groups around book-bearers, or, as they're called, librarians. Alexei, until now a loser, comes to collect an uncle's inheritance and unexpectedly becomes a librarian. He tells his extraordinary, unbelievable story.
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One Night in Sixes by Arianne 'Tex' Thompson (Solaris Books)


publication date: August 2014





Solaris is pleased to announce that it has acquired the debut novel of Texan author Arianne "Tex" Thompson.


One Night in Sixes is a startlingly original Western-influenced rural fantasy novel that will be published in August 2014



Appaloosa Elim is a man who knows his place. On a good day, he’s content with it.



Today is not a good day.


Today, his so-called “partner” – that lily-white lordling Sil Halfwick – has ridden off west for the border, hell-bent on making a name for himself in native territory. And Elim, whose place is written in the bastard browns and whites of his cow-spotted face, doesn’t dare show up home again without him.


The border town called Sixes is quiet in the heat of the day, but Elim's heard the stories about what wakes at sunset: gunslingers and shapeshifters and ancient animal gods whose human faces never outlast the daylight.


And about the only thing worse than finding whatever's left of Sil is the thought of getting caught out after dark – of discovering how much damaged magic is living in Elim’s own flesh, and how far he'll go to survive the night.




http://solaris-editors-blog.blogspot.in/2013/12/solaris-acquires-progressive-and.html


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Maybe they want to include the Winterfell story in there?

That's one possibility. Another might be that with The World of Ice and Fire coming out in late 2014 they wanted a GRRM book for 2015 to tide them over until TWoW later that year/maybe in 2016/who knows?

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Good news! More WILD CARDS books are being reprinted in the UK in 2014.

Aces Abroad (Wild Cards #4): 8 May
Down and Dirty (#5): 12 June
Ace in the Hole (#6): 10 July
Dead Man's Hand (#7): 14 August
Lowball (#22): 11 December

Wild Cards (#1), Aces High (#2), Jokers Wild (#3), Inside Straight (#18), Busted Flush (#19), Suicide Kings (#20) and Fort Freak (#21) are already available in the UK.

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