David Brin used to be a pretty regular writer. He’d publish a new novel every year of two. But as far as I know, his last real novel was Kiln People in 2003 (he’s published some non-novel works since then). And his website is apparently closed down.
So I was glad to see a recent mention that he’s working on a new novel which is vaguely described as an “end of the world” story. But what really surprised me was a mention of a book called Kiln Time, which was supposedly a sequel to Kiln People that was published in 2006 (Amazon even lists a specific ISBN, publisher, page count, shipping weight, and a release date of October 27 - while going on to say the book is “currently unavailable”).
There’s virtually no way I would have missed the actual release of this book in 2006. So can anyone tell me what happened?