Favorite authors' forthcoming books

[J-Sun]

Just struggled through Rainbows End and need to get back to safe space opera territory.

Actually Rainbows End was quite intriguing, just not a real easy read.

Yep - I had a similar experience - it wasn't too long ago that I read it (I guess four years ago when the paperback came out) and it's already gone a little vague on me but I remember a slight struggle, too. It was "good" but just somehow didn't grab me. It's probably my least favorite Vinge and, while his space opera has become my favorite (no surprise), it's not just that - the Peace War stuff and even Taja Grimm's World were more fun and the Peace War stuff is likely better. (Still haven't read The Witling, though I have it.) I intend to one day re-read it - maybe it'll go better.

 

[Rosemary]

Have pre-orderd the last book written by Sara Douglass.

It is to be published in November and is titled The Hall Of Lost Footsteps

 

[GOLLUM]

Have pre-orderd the last book written by Sara Douglass. It is to be published in November and is titled The Hall Of Lost Footsteps

Indeed. That looks to be a fine collection Rosemary, consisting as it does of Sara's short fiction.

For those who may not be aware Sara Douglass was an Australian SFF author who sadly passed away at the end of September aged 54. Her output was impressive and for me her first trilogy the Axis trilogy remains her finest work. This country has cetainly lost one of its finest writers of sepcualtive fiction.

Apologies if Rosemary or another member has already posted the fact of Sara's passing.

 

[Connavar]

A rare reprinting of a book by my fav noir writer Richard Stark.

The Dame

http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo12991288.html

 

[GOLLUM]

And next week Haruki Murakami's latest and its a huge tome...IQ84.

 

[iansales]

BTW, the release date for Pearlant by M. John Harrison has been moved from yesterday to April 2012. Which will seem ironic if you read the OP of the linked thread.

And the title has also been changed to Empty Space.

 

[elvet]

And next week Haruki Murakami's latest and its a huge tome...IQ84.

Thanks for bring this to my attention. Not my usual fare, but his accolades keep coming.

 

[Clansman]

Just arrived this morning: The Sword of the Canon: Initiate's Trial, the ninth book of the magnum opus The Wars of Light and Shadow, by Janny Wurts. I have been waiting for this book all year.

I will not be present on the boards for a while, as I will be reading. HEE HEE!

Two left to be written in this series: The Sword of the Canon: Destiny's Conflict, and Song of the Mysteries.

 

[GOLLUM]

@Clansman: Thanks for the heads up. I'll look for out for a copy. Only 2 to go, exciting news indeed....

Thanks for bring this to my attention. Not my usual fare, but his accolades keep coming.

Weel..he has been cited for the Nobel Prize and I for one would not be unhappy to see him receive it. I have all of his published works even his rarer earlier items like Pinball 1973.

If you have not read Murakami before I would recommend Wind Up Bird Chronicles, Kafka On The Shore (world fantasy award winner) & Norwegian Wood as amongst his best. From the cirtcial reveiws I've been reading and the word on the street, IQ84 may yet prove to be one of his finest if not most ambitous works to date.

Here's a blurb on this rather massive tome of over 1,000 pages...

The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.

A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 —“Q is for ‘question mark.’ A world that bears a question.” Meanwhile, an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostwriting project. He becomes so wrapped up with the work and its unusual author that, soon, his previously placid life begins to come unraveled.

As Aomame’s and Tengo’s narratives converge over the course of this single year, we learn of the profound and tangled connections that bind them ever closer: a beautiful, dyslexic teenage girl with a unique vision; a mysterious religious cult that instigated a shoot-out with the metropolitan police; a reclusive, wealthy dowager who runs a shelter for abused women; a hideously ugly private investigator; a mild-mannered yet ruthlessly efficient bodyguard; and a peculiarly insistent television-fee collector.

A love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a novel of self-discovery, a dystopia to rival George Orwell’s—1Q84 is Haruki Murakami’s most ambitious undertaking yet: an instant best seller in his native Japan, and a tremendous feat of imagination from one of our most revered contemporary writers.

 

[thatollie]

And the title has also been changed to Empty Space.

It's still exciting though. The excerpt posted on his blog was really good.
http://ambientehotel.wordpress.com/chapter-17/