# Awaiting new sci-fi books **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 23, 2005, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awaiting-new-sci-fi-books/309577 "2005-06-23T19:06:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![cckerberos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@cckerberos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cckerberos)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awaiting-new-sci-fi-books/309577/21 "2005-06-27T08:13:43Z")
I’m half-awaiting/half-dreading the release of the new Honor Harrington book later this year. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awaiting-new-sci-fi-books/309577/22 "2005-06-27T13:21:52Z")
I’m \*\*still \*\*waiting for Melanie Rawn to write _The Captal’s Tower_. Eight years and counting. _sigh_ On the very bright side, though, I recently acquired Patricia McKillip’s _Od Magic_. She’s been publishing at least one wonderful novel every year or so for a while now. Kage Baker’s next book in the Company series, _The Children of the Company_, is due out in November. ---
**Author:** ![Busy\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@Busy\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Busy_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awaiting-new-sci-fi-books/309577/23 "2005-06-27T13:34:02Z")
I was just looking on Amazon to see if Samuel Delany had ever followed up “Stars in my pocket like grains of sand.” Nope! Its a little late in the day for a sequel to that mighty book, probably best just to let it lie. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awaiting-new-sci-fi-books/309577/24 "2005-06-27T16:30:55Z")
I’m expecting Harlan Ellison to release the third _Dangerous Visions_ collection any day now. ---
**Author:** ![Scupper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Scupper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scupper)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awaiting-new-sci-fi-books/309577/25 "2005-06-27T17:26:12Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > I will. I haven’t read Varley since Titan, Wizard, and Demon, and that was many years ago, so anything by him will be new to me. 🙂 Steel Beach and the Golden Globe are both fantastic books. As good as the Gaia trilogy is, it can’t hold a candle to SB and GG. Red Thunder is junior sci-fi. Competent and fun, but it reads like a novel intended to become a screenplay for a summer popcorn flick (which is what it is currently being developed for, I understand). Personally, I like John Varley when he’s vicious and when he’s funny. The John Varley Reader, a collection of his best short stories, is definitely worth a read. Some of the stories in it are fairly bloodcurdling. He’s not afraid to kill off characters you aren’t expecting to die. Just got Mammoth, and I’ll be getting to it as soon as I’m done with “To Crush The Moon,” by Wil McCarthy (last volume in the Queendom of Sol series, and already proving to be as sad as I’d anticipated). ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awaiting-new-sci-fi-books/309577/26 "2005-06-29T20:54:49Z")
I’m sort of reviving this thread, but does anyone have any idea when Eric Flint or Baen will be releasing more of his Assati Shards/1634 novels? Wasn’t one scheduled for this year? ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awaiting-new-sci-fi-books/309577/27 "2005-06-30T00:37:26Z")
> [@Scupper](#): > > Red Thunder is junior sci-fi. Competent and fun, but it reads like a novel intended to become a screenplay for a summer popcorn flick (which is what it is currently being developed for, I understand). > > Personally, I like John Varley when he’s vicious and when he’s funny. The John Varley Reader, a collection of his best short stories, is definitely worth a read. Some of the stories in it are fairly bloodcurdling. He’s not afraid to kill off characters you aren’t expecting to die. > > Just got Mammoth, and I’ll be getting to it as soon as I’m done with “To Crush The Moon,” by Wil McCarthy (last volume in the Queendom of Sol series, and already proving to be as sad as I’d anticipated). Red Thunder was a bit of an _homage_ to Heinlein’s juvenile books. I’d put Mammoth in the same class as Red Thunder: junior sci-fi. It’s a good read, but it doesn’t grab me like a lot of his other stuff does. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awaiting-new-sci-fi-books/309577/28 "2005-06-30T02:01:43Z")
> [@](#): > > I’m sort of reviving this thread, but does anyone have any idea when Eric Flint or Baen will be releasing more of his Assati Shards/1634 novels? Wasn’t one scheduled for this year? The most recent was _The Grantville Gazette_ which was released in print last November. But it’s an anthology not a novel. ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awaiting-new-sci-fi-books/309577/29 "2005-06-30T03:38:45Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > Kage Baker’s next book in the Company series, _The Children of the Company_, is due out in November. …and November isn’t coming fast enough. And, when it comes, my husband and I will be fighting over the book. ::glee:: ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awaiting-new-sci-fi-books/309577/30 "2005-06-30T03:55:29Z")
> [@Angel of the Lord](#): > > …and November isn’t coming fast enough. And, when it comes, my husband and I will be fighting over the book. > > ::glee:: I was lucky enough to find a decent and decently priced copy of _Mendoza in Hollywood_ on abebooks a couple days ago. It shipped yesterday. I wanted to wait for a reprint, like I did for _The Graveyard Game_, but there’s no word on if or when that might happen, so I bought it. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awaiting-new-sci-fi-books/309577/31 "2005-06-30T13:35:17Z")
The Sterling book, is it a sequel to _Dies The Fire_ (which was itself a sequel to a trilogy)? I read the first few chapters online, but never saw the book in the local shop, and so I’ve never read it. I did, for reasons that defy rational explanation, picked up _The Runes Of Earth: The Third Chronicles of Thomas Covenant_. I’m about halfway through the thing, and while I’m not enraptured like I was with the first trilogy, I will end up finishing it. And no, Stephenson hasn’t lost his thesaurus since the end of _White Gold Wielder_. ---
**Author:** ![velveeta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/13edae/32.png) [@velveeta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velveeta)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awaiting-new-sci-fi-books/309577/32 "2005-06-30T14:41:35Z")
_Woken Furies_ by Richard K. Morgan Already out in the UK. Not released here until September. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awaiting-new-sci-fi-books/309577/33 "2005-06-30T14:50:30Z")
> [@](#): > > The Sterling book, is it a sequel to Dies The Fire (which was itself a sequel to a trilogy)? I read the first few chapters online, but never saw the book in the local shop, and so I’ve never read it. _The Protector’s War_ is the second book in the trilogy that began with _Dies The Fire_; the third book will be _A Meeting at Corvallis_. _The Protector’s War_ is scheduled to be released on September 1, 2005. ---
**Author:** ![Archergal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awaiting-new-sci-fi-books/309577/34 "2005-06-30T14:52:07Z")
I believe Neil Gaiman’s new book **Anansi Boys** will be out in the fall. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awaiting-new-sci-fi-books/309577/35 "2005-06-30T15:07:25Z")
> [@cckerberos](#): > > I’m half-awaiting/half-dreading the release of the new Honor Harrington book later this year. Heh, I’m still reading Shadow of Saganami,what’s the next book called? Also, any idea when we’ll see a sequel to Crown of Slaves? I want to see more of Victor Cachat and Her Royal Incizorship, the Queen of Torch. I’ve recently developed the opinion that while David Weber made a great universe, he just doesn’t write in it nearly as well as some other authors do (if you don’t know what I mean, read the Worlds of Honor spinoffs, with such great stories as “Deckload Strike” and “A Ship Named Francis” 😛 ) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awaiting-new-sci-fi-books/309577.md?page=1)