Upcoming series
September 25, 2003 (1:10 AM) ( link )

Sorry for the long absence: I plead work.

Nonetheless, I've kept reading. Currently I have three books waiting to be reviewed. And I'm reading Daniel Keys Moran's The Long Run, another book in his Tales of the Continuing Time (of which The Last Dancer was a part).

I just wanted to note down (partially for my own purposes) some books coming out that either continue or nicely round off some of my favorite series:

October 20, 2003 (UK edition): Robin Hobb's Fool's Fate, the third book in her Tawny Man Trilogy. I've read Hobb's first two trilogies (the Assassin Trilogy and the Liveship Traders Trilogy), and they were fantastic. The Tawny Man Trilogy promises to tie the previous two trilogies together and also complete the story (I hope). The first two books of the trilogy are already out; I've been manfully refraining from reading them for now, so I don't find myself dying to find out what happens next.

November 4, 2003: Stephen King's Wolves of the Calla, the fifth book in his strange but wonderful Dark Tower series. King, bless him, is churning out the last three books of this septology in a row--I think they're separated by something like two months (perhaps more). I'm not as fond of the Dark Tower series as I am of some other series, but it's still a delightful read--and it'll be nice to see King finish it.

Whenever: George R.R. Martin's A Feast for Crows. I have been staring at the same goddamned message on his website for ages: "STILL SORRY. STILL NOT DONE YET." I'd be even angrier if I weren't 100% sure that Martin will deliver. The first three books of A Song and Ice and Fire have been phenomenal stuff. The next few books of the series (two more, I think) should be even better. This, my friends, is destined to be an immortal classic of fantasy.

Whenever: Robert Jordan's next book. It's true that Jordan's Wheel of Time series has suffered a remarkable decline--the first four books (possibly even the fifth) were superb, but the last few have been slow-moving and terrible. So what? I know that when the last book comes out I'll still sit down and read all gazillion volumes in a row.