# The Wise Man's Fear delayed until '10?!?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wise-mans-fear-delayed-until-10/490966
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [March 27, 2009, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wise-mans-fear-delayed-until-10/490966 "2009-03-27T05:22:16Z")
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### Author:  [@Erdosain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erdosain)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2009, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wise-mans-fear-delayed-until-10/490966/1 "2009-03-27T05:22:16Z")
So I was checking Amazon to see when I should start re-reading _The Name of the Wind_ to coincide with the April release of _The Wise Man’s Fear_, and lo and behold it wasn’t there. It still shows up in my pre-orders as being delivered on April 9th, but a little googling reveals that Rothfuss is still tinkering with the damn thing! [In February he said he’d written 60,000 more words just in the new year.](http://www.patrickrothfuss.com/blog/2009/02/concerning-release-of-book-two.html)
This doesn’t sound good. If he’s still adding giant swathes of text in '09, I can’t imagine this is going to be released any sooner than spring '10. I appreciate the fact that he’s making the books better (I hope, unless this is some George Lucas-like meddling) but it is frustrating when you consider that the entire story was already complete when he started shopping it around to publishers. Who knows when we’ll have book 3 at this rate; I’ll just be happy if I’m still alive.
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### Author:  [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2009, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wise-mans-fear-delayed-until-10/490966/2 "2009-03-27T10:48:34Z")
That’ll piss me off. But Amazon is still reporting it will ship April 9th.
Alas, I will be flying to the UK the following Monday, so if it doesn’t arrive by then it will sit on my porch for a full week. ☹
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### Author:  [@Erdosain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erdosain)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2009, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wise-mans-fear-delayed-until-10/490966/3 "2009-03-27T13:20:14Z")
Unfortunately, **Khadaji** , there is little chance of the book sitting on your porch for the week, since Rothfuss hasn’t finished it yet. I don’t even want to think how long the copy-editing, formatting, and printing are going to take.
I also don’t know why Amazon is so slow in updating the pre-orders. Maybe they’re debating whether to simply delay the pre-orders or just cancel them outright. Considering that Rothfuss doesn’t even have a deadline in mind, I think they should just cancel them.
2010 is a long time to wait for the new book!