# Books I've been waiting for. List yours! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 24, 2006, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-ive-been-waiting-for-list-yours/381610 "2006-11-24T03:14:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-ive-been-waiting-for-list-yours/381610/21 "2006-11-24T22:57:43Z")
[QUOTE=mhendo] Stephen Donaldson, _Fatal Revenant_, the second book in the Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. Coming next year. [/QUOTE] :smack: How could I have forgotten? And **smeghead** , I too await the conclusion of WOT. I no longer worry so much about living to see it, I worry more that the author won’t live to see it. Thanks for chiming in, all! ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2006, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-ive-been-waiting-for-list-yours/381610/22 "2006-11-25T00:17:47Z")
[Against the Day](http://www.amazon.com/Against-Day-Thomas-Pynchon/dp/159420120X/sr=8-1/qid=1164413765/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-4207147-7937529?ie=UTF8&s=books) by Thomas Pynchon. ---
**Author:** ![Mrs.Cake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@Mrs.Cake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs.Cake)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2006, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-ive-been-waiting-for-list-yours/381610/23 "2006-11-25T00:39:44Z")
Whatever Terry Pratchett is currently working on. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2006, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-ive-been-waiting-for-list-yours/381610/24 "2006-11-25T01:06:46Z")
Say, I seem to recall someone telling me that Clive Barker’s finally decided to finish what he started with The Great & Secret Show and Everville. So I’m certainly waiting on the Third Book of the Art as well, if that’s true. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2006, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-ive-been-waiting-for-list-yours/381610/25 "2006-11-25T01:17:15Z")
[QUOTE=Mrs. Cake] Whatever Terry Pratchett is currently working on. [/QUOTE] What other books are on my list? Didn’t want you to get a headache! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![BlackKnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2006, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-ive-been-waiting-for-list-yours/381610/26 "2006-11-25T02:05:57Z")
I eagerly await “I am a Strange Loop” by Douglas Hofstadter. Description of the book from [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com): “Douglas R. Hofstadter’s long-awaited return to the themes of Gšdel, Escher, Bach–an original and controversial view of the nature of consciousness and identity.” I purchased this book back in March 2006, since it was listed as being published in July of 2006. Now it’s listed as being published March 2007. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was delayed yet again. ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2006, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-ive-been-waiting-for-list-yours/381610/27 "2006-11-25T02:46:55Z")
I’d like Orson Scott Card to finish the Alvin Maker series. I read the first two and then realized how slow the rest of it was going and decided to wait until it was complete to get back on board. ---
**Author:** ![Archergal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2006, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-ive-been-waiting-for-list-yours/381610/28 "2006-11-25T17:05:59Z")
Now that I have **Victorian Lace Today** in my sweaty little hand, I’m waiting on **Lace Style** , from the same folks who brought us **Scarf Style** and **Wrap Style**. 😃 I’m a lace-knitting ho. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2006, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-ive-been-waiting-for-list-yours/381610/29 "2006-11-25T21:36:24Z")
[QUOTE=Qadgop the Mercotan] A Method For Madness by David Gerrold, #5 in the “War against the Cthorr” series. Long anticipated. Might occur one day. [/QUOTE] Looks like we may be in luck soon… [The Chtorr Website](http://www.chtorr.com/#progress%20on%20a%20method%20for%20madness) ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2006, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-ive-been-waiting-for-list-yours/381610/30 "2006-11-25T21:56:19Z")
[QUOTE=simster] Looks like we may be in luck soon… [The Chtorr Website](http://www.chtorr.com/#progress%20on%20a%20method%20for%20madness) [/QUOTE] Not so sure about that. I visited that website while composing this OP, and I couldn’t find any updates later than 2003 on it. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2006, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-ive-been-waiting-for-list-yours/381610/31 "2006-11-25T23:01:29Z")
_Winterfair Gifts_, by Lois McMaster Bujold. Miles and Ekaterin’s wedding. Sgt. Taura as a detective. It _hurts_ not to be able to read it. _Variable Star_, by Robert A. Heinlein and Spider Robinson. Volumes 4 and 5 in John Barnes’ Thousand Cultures series (_A Million Open Doors, Earth Made of Glass_, and _The Traders of Souls_) The promised Heinlein biography And “Mike and Annie Go to Thrillworld” (obviously not Spider’s title for it) – with the caveat **Brain Glutton** gave that Spider needs to be coerced into writing it. I also have the forlorn hope that someday someone will come across good unpublished manuscripts by Edgar Pangborn and by H. Beam Piper. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2006, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-ive-been-waiting-for-list-yours/381610/32 "2006-11-25T23:07:13Z")
[QUOTE=Polycarp] I also have the forlorn hope that someday someone will come across good unpublished manuscripts by Edgar Pangborn and by H. Beam Piper. [/QUOTE] What, you didn’t like _Fuzzies and other people_? ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2006, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-ive-been-waiting-for-list-yours/381610/33 "2006-11-26T16:08:16Z")
The next Aubery/Maturin sea story from Patrick O’Brien though it could be a bit of a long wait as he seems to be very slow in grasping the fact that you CAN continue bringing out a novel every couple of years when you’re dead.(ref. a previous posting) Hopefully he’ll read this and take the hint. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2006, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-ive-been-waiting-for-list-yours/381610/34 "2006-11-26T16:10:28Z")
[QUOTE=Lust4Life] The next Aubery/Maturin sea story from Patrick O’Brien though it could be a bit of a long wait as he seems to be very slow in grasping the fact that you CAN continue bringing out a novel every couple of years when you’re dead.(ref. a previous posting) Hopefully he’ll read this and take the hint. [/QUOTE] oops!I’m a bit knackered,Imeant thread not posting. ---
**Author:** ![Archergal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2006, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-ive-been-waiting-for-list-yours/381610/35 "2006-11-26T16:27:07Z")
[QUOTE=Polycarp] _Winterfair Gifts_, by Lois McMaster Bujold. Miles and Ekaterin’s wedding. Sgt. Taura as a detective. It _hurts_ not to be able to read it. [/QUOTE] [Winterfair Gifts](http://fictionwise.com/servlet/mwsearch;jsessionid=vpbHwlvvYsJlXsPyecJTpVcZGKY) is available at Fictionwise… ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2006, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-ive-been-waiting-for-list-yours/381610/36 "2006-11-26T17:45:48Z")
The last two promised omnibuses of John Morressy’s _Kedrigern_ series. Meisha Merlin is now 2+ years behind releasing volume three and a volume four was mentioned more than a year ago in an issue of _F&SF_. I managed to find the last two novels that were originally printed in English (several others have been published, but only in the Czech Republic) at a used book store. However, it’s a lot harder to find old back issues of _F&SF_, even with the internet. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2006, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-ive-been-waiting-for-list-yours/381610/37 "2006-11-26T19:50:42Z")
I wish that Diana Gabaldon would finish her “Outlander” series soon. Once upon a time, I really, really cared about Jamie and Claire. Now I just want to see how it ends. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2006, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-ive-been-waiting-for-list-yours/381610/38 "2006-11-26T20:37:16Z")
[QUOTE=Polycarp] _Variable Star_, by Robert A. Heinlein and Spider Robinson. [/QUOTE] Um, [poly?](http://www.amazon.com/Variable-Star-Robert-Heinlein/dp/076531312X/sr=8-1/qid=1164573419/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-1733346-0424743?ie=UTF8&s=books) ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2006, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-ive-been-waiting-for-list-yours/381610/39 "2006-11-26T20:42:57Z")
_Curse of the Swamp Monster._, sequel to _Bride of the Rat God_, by Barbra Hambly. _Bride_ was a weird adventure/dark fantasy set in Hollywood’s Silent Film age ( **Eve** would like it, I reckon). _Curse_ is supposedly to be set in the 50’s, at the end of the B&W film age. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2006, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-ive-been-waiting-for-list-yours/381610/40 "2006-11-26T21:46:20Z")
Personally, I’m waiting for the next Honorverse book from David Weber, especially given the fallout that has to have happened in the wake of the bloodbath at the end of _At All Costs_. The next book is supposed to be a sequel to _Crown of Slaves_, with Victor Cachat and Anton Zilwicki off causing trouble for Mesa. Also, I’m anxiously awaiting the sequel to Elizabeth Moon’s _Engaging the Enemy_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-ive-been-waiting-for-list-yours/381610.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-ive-been-waiting-for-list-yours/381610.md?page=3)