What book are you waiting to be published?

I am waiting for a few of my favorite authors newests books:

First, I am waiting on pins and needles to read "Treasons Shore" by Sherwood Smith, in August. This is her last book in the Inda series. This is such an interesting adventure tale... and I am so excited to see how she wraps it all up...there are so many storylines and character arches that I wish I had it in my hands right now...

I am also so excited to find out the the fourth book, "Conspiracy of Kings," by Megan Whalen Turner is finally coming out next March. This is the final or next, book in her Attolia series. I can not recommend her books highly enough. I was recommended this series by another favorite author and I was so wowwed! She says so much with so few words.

And my favorite author, Michelle Sagara West, is moving her "House Wars" series along with the publishing of "City of Night," also in March. I am interested to read it, but I really am dying to read the next book after this one which is being written write now....(so what is going on in the kitchen???)

What book(s) are you waiting for?

I'm desperate for the next Inda book. In a less defined time line I've been waiting on P. C. Hodgell to put out the next in her Kencyrath series. But I'm not expecting anything soon. Last I saw any news she'd just finished writing it.

I'll state a couple of the obvious ones...

A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin and The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan (to be completed by Brandon Sanderson)). I'm also waiting for Scott Lynch's The Republic of Thieves after he left that particular cliffhanger at the end of Red Seas Under Red Skies.

I'm waiting impatiently for Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld and Fire: Tales of Elemental Spirits by Robin Mckinley and Peter Dickinson, which are suppose to come out in October; The God Engines by John Scalzi, which is supposed to be out in December; A Wizard of Mars by Diane Duane, which is supposed to be out sometime this year; and Pegasus by Robin Mckinley, which is not done being written yet.

I'm also looking forward to the sequels to a bunch of books I've read this year - Skinned (Crashed), The Hunger Games (Catching Fire), The Knife of Never Letting Go (The Ask and the Answer), and Graceling (Fire). All of them are coming out in September, except Fire which is October.

Melanie Rawn's The Captal's Tower I have longed for this books for years, I picked up the series in 2002 and loved it so much, I just want to know how it concludes now.

1: Ditto that about A Conspiracy of Kings. Turner is a fantastic writer and her characters are unforgettable. I'm planning on rereading the entire series (for the fifth? sixth? time) when I get my hands on the fourth book.

Mostly all the ones I'm waiting for are books in a series. The White Road by Lynn Flewelling, Sacred Scars by Kathleen Duey, Dark Slayer by Christine Feehan, Bad Moon Rising by Sherrilyn Kenyon and whatever the next Dresden book will be called by Jim Butcher.

The third Alcatraz book by Brandon Sanderson--Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia due out in October.

And Absolute Death--fancy edition collecting Neil Gaiman's Death comics and related materials. Also due out in October.

The sequel to Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, and the sequel to The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. The latter is due out in September.

Ditto the next Inda book 'Treason's Shore' and the new Megan Whalen Turner. Also saw on a thread last week that the third Lorna Freeman Borderlands book is now due to be released next year.

Eagerly awaiting Robin Hobb's new book Dragon Keeper which is due out in the next couple of weeks - YAY! Her Six Duchies books are still my all time faves & I'm so excited that she's revisiting that world :)

There are many, and just reading this thread I would count myself waiting for the Martin, the Jordan/Sanderson, the Rothfuss, the Lynch, the Rawn, Freeman, and even the Inda (Smith) book (though the third book was a let down.)

But really the head of that list is Jordan. Twenty plus years now waiting for this series to reach the end of it's trilogy.... :-)

Ditto Melanie Rawn and George R.R. Martin.

Wise Man's Fear by Rothfuss tops my list. I'm also awaiting Janny Wurts's Initiate's Trial and the paperback edition of C, J. Cherryh's Conspirator. There are a few others as well, but these are the once I'm most looking forward to.

Steven Erikson's Dust of Dreams (2009) and The Crippled God (2010)
Stephen R. Donaldson's Against All Things Ending (2010) and The Last Dark (2013)
Matthew Stover's My Father's Fist
Orson Scott Card's Master Alvin

I am hopping up and down till An Echo in Bone by Diana Gabaldon is released. Sept 22! YAY!

Now that I've read Dragon Keeper, I'm desperately waiting for the next two books which probably haven't been written yet. And I'm waiting for the last Wheel of Time book, completed by Robert Jordan's family from his notes.

#16
September??? Eeep! I LOVE the Outlander series!

#17
The last Wheel of Time book will be written by Brandon Sanderson, actually. You should definitely check his work out. It's AMAZING.

I'm looking forward to A Wise Man's Fear, along with many. Also Treason's Shore, to see if Sherwood Smith brings back the wider stage of conflict fore-promised in her Inda series' book two, but that didn't deliver as yet with the narrowed storyline of the third.

I don't know what's up next for Carol Berg but whatever it will be, I'll snap it up.

I'm dismayed to see my upcoming list so short, which means, I haven't looked up the "forthcoming" releases, recently, or it's time to experiment with some new writers' stuff.

I've missed Katharine Eliska Kimbriel - Fires of Nuala - been years since she has released anything.

and I'll jump on the band wagon for the Inda book:)

Also David Weber's Torch of Freedom and By Heresies Distressed.

I'm waiting on Eyes Like Stars by Lisa Mantchev. It's due to be out in a few days, though.

I'm also waiting on The Women of Nell Gwynne's by Kage Baker which is another July release.

Number one on the list for me is Paula Volsky's "The Traitor's House", if it really exists. I saw a mention of it being submitted to the publisher back in early 2008, but haven't seen anything since. (Anyone know how worthwhile it would be to contact the publisher to check the status on something like this? Volsky doesn't have a web presence that I know of, but I'd love to get confirmation whether the book is actually in the works or not...)

I'll also be first in line to pick up Connie Willis's "All Clear", if it ever actually gets published. Been waiting for a new full-length novel from her forever.

Eye's Like Leaves by Charles de Lint. Said to be epic and very hefty fantasy (over 100k words).

So, nobody is waiting for Dragons of the Hourglass Mage, the last book in the new Dragonlance Trilogy? I can't wait to read more about Raistlin and his search for power.

Read somewhere that Barbara Hambly has been contracted for 2 more Benjamin January books & a sequel to Those who hunt the night and Travelling with the dead. Wonderful news, even if there's a bit of a wait involved!

I wish Hambly would write more about the characters from Bride of the Rat God which is one of my favourite books. Fun story and the pekingese dogs are wonderful. Nobody else has ever made me want to own one.

I'm waiting for quite a list as well:
Hunting Ground by Patricia Briggs. It's the second in the Alpha And Omega series.
Order In Chaos by Jack Whyte (maybe I'll finally get around to reading book two of the Templar trilogy).
Divine Misdemeanors by Laurell K. Hamilton
Torch of Freedom by David Weber
Bad Moon Rising by Sherrilyn Kenyon (I think there are a few of us here waiting for this one).
The next Valdemar anthology as well. There doesn't seem to be the sequel to Foundation listed anywhere that I can see yet, or that would be on my list as well.

Republic of Thieves - I just recently read the first two. So this was good timing (I hope) lol

I've been waiting for what seems an eternity for A Means to Freedom: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E . Howard but Hippocampus Press *still* hasn't published it yet...why did I pre-order again?

I was also eagerly awaiting Rage of the Behemoth, but I actually got my hands on it last week.

I'm waiting for three books to be published, although I'll probably have to wait for their paperback versions because the hardcover will be too expensive. Also constantly waiting for Neil Gaiman's next book and Terry Pratchett's next one as well (although I have so much catching up to do).
Leviathan - Scott Westerfeld
Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
Fire - Kristin Cashore

Glad to know I'm not the only one!

Lois McMaster Bujold has a new Vorkosigan series novel in the works - she's been fishing for titles among those of us on her mailing list - but that won't be published for a while as she IS only just at the final titling stage. Sounds like a good one, though, so far!

Diane Duane -- definitely waiting on The Door into Starlight, and there is no way I won't KEEP waiting for a few years. *g* The third out of four books in that series was published in 1993. Sooner, though, her next in the Young Wizards series, A Wizard of Mars, is due out next April (the publication date has kept being pushed back due to problems at the publishers'), and I've pre-ordered that. Can't wait! :D And of course The Big Meow, but that's being posted as an eBook, so it's of lesser priority than the last-mentioned, and I'm trying not to be twitchy about that (I'm a bigger fan of the cat-wizard books than of the human kind *g*).

...Why on earth are none of my damned tags working except the first one? >_

Tad Williams' Shadowrise, to close out his Shadowmarch trilogy - still being written, last I heard. Ditto on the Martin, I buy them as soon as they come out. I'm hoarding Erickson and Donaldson's new Covenant books, waiting for the full series before starting. Sanderson's "Way of Kings" is sounding like a series opener to anticipate. Also looking forward to returning to Landover with Terry Brooks in "A Princess of Landover" (August).

The Spendor and Misery of Bodies, of Cities by Samuel R. Delany, the sequel to Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand. I doubt it will ever be published.

I would love to see the sequel to The Merro Tree published--I think it's called Roots of Forgiveness. Unlikely to happen, unfortunately.

Oh! and Jim C. Hines' The Mermaid's Madness is being released in October.

Glad to see there will be an ending to the Wheel of Time Series!
I'm also looking forward to Echo in the Bone.
Also waiting for Lord Sunday by Garth Nix.He says its a t the publisher and shold be out spring 2010 !

I'm waiting (very impatiently!) for The White Road by Lynn Flewelling to be released. Also looking forward to Silver Borne by Patricia Briggs.

I'm looking forward to Heart's Blood by my favorite author Juliet Marillier, which comes out on my birthday!!

I want The White Road too.

I should add to my list that I'm also waiting for the next few Elizabeth Moon novels, one of which is Oath of Fealty and is due out next March.

#33, PhoenixTerran, I'd like to see The Merro Tree's sequel, too - that was the finest of undiscovered wonders. I will hope fortunes change for the author, if she has a sequel, it would be awesome.

George RR Martin's latest. It's been a long wait and neither the author nor I are getting any younger...

^^Every time a fan complains about the long wait between books, George R.R. Martin kills a Stark. *sigh*

I didn't know Juliet Marillier had a new book coming out!Now I have another one to look forward to!

yes susiesharp it comes out October 2nd!

Funny about Martin killing characters. I think thats why its taking him so long to write. The longer the story goes on, the closer he gets to the characters, and following his format, the more he has to kill/maim. Irresistible force meet immovable object, grid lock ensues, end result, no book.

What is a Stark? I think that so many minor stories became major plot lines in GRRM that he is lost in the weeds. The War seems more complex now then WWII and we got through that in 6 years from 39 to 45...

A Stark is a whole family. The good guys in ASOIF.

The thing that came to my mind was a snark. The hunting of the Snark...

Oooh - the next (and last in the series) Katherine Kerr - it's out in October. Yey.

Plus the last wheel of time is out in November I think and I absolutely cannot wait.

For those that haven't heard the news on the Wheel of Time series yet, the last book is now going to be the last 3 books.

Here's the reasoning behind the decision.

I'll second:

A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin
Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch
Wise Man's Fear by Rothfuss

and add:

The Dark Commands by Richard Morgan

I too am waiting to finish the Robert Jordan books! I was terrified when he passed away without finishing the story!

I am waiting for Brent weeks to do more work, not sure where he is going with his next series, if it's in the same world with the same characters or a prequel???

oh yeah and I hope I am not disappointed with the Jordan/Sanderson final book. Taking a month off from working and going to try and read the 36 books collecting dust bunnies on my night stand! so many books so little time.

I need to get a job where I am hired to read continuously, I love it when I find words misspelled in a book. It's like, aha! found one! I know, I know, get a life.

Just received a notice from Powell's in Portland that the devine Ms. Atwood has a new book coming out in September. Thank goodness we don't have to wait long!

I was cruising Amazon for a few of the books that we are discussing here and found that A Dance With Dragons has been reviewed 38 times. Pretty good for a book that has yet to be published.

I'm waiting for the next novel in George RR Martin's A Song of Fire and Ice fantasy series. I don't normally do fantasy any more, but Martin's books are excellent.

Besides that, there are several writers I would love to see release new books, though unfortunately I'm not sure if it will ever happen.

I would love to see China Mieville publish another Bas Lag book (after Perdido Street Station, The Iron Council and The Scar).

Another Culture novel from Iain M Banks would be very welcome (and I haven't even read Matter yet!).

Alas, we will be forever waiting for Jack Aubrey's final 21st voyage to be completed, as Patrick O'Brien died before finishing it (though the partial manuscript was actually published posthumously). I just can't imagine reading it in its unfinished state. RIP Patrick.

First review of Brandon Sanderson's Wheel of Time book is now up on Dragonmount! It looks like something to get very excited about.

I too am desperate for Katharine Kerr's last book in the Deverry series -currently doing a re-read from the beginning and remembering why these instantly found a place on my 'definitely keep' bookshelf.

I am looking forward to Brandon Sanderson's first novel in his new series The Stormlight Archive called The Way of Kings. According to his blog post he has finished a rewrite but I couldn't find any real reference to a pub date.

By the way, the entry on Amazon is bogus as are the reviews.

I like the Elvis cover for The Way of Kings but Sanderson has a full page of twitter reviews for the book at his website. So either this is an elaborate joke or really in poor taste.

>58 DWWilkin:
Read those - I think he just has a twisted sense of humor which is not necessarily a bad thing.

And whilst I'm in Wishful Thinking World, I'd love to see 'An ambush of tigers' (the sequel to A business of ferrets and A parliament of owls by Beth Hilgartner) published. At one stage it was 'forthcoming', but it never forthcame...

> 60 puddlesharl

>At one stage it was 'forthcoming', but it never forthcame...

Heh... How delightfully put. :)

Don't you hate that (lack of forthcoming). I have several series that I am reading that they next/final book just never got published.

I'ts been a long wait, but I know it will be worth it,I'll be at the book store waiting for it to open.

Oops I didn't mention the book i'ts An echo in the Bone.#7 in the series by Diana Gabaldon.

#17 Robin Hobb's The Dragon Keeper is not part of a trilogy, but actually part one of a novel split in two. The second part, Dragon Haven will be out in March 2010 (so yes, it has been written already).

I'm waiting for Forest Born by Shannon Hale and Fire by Kristin Cashore.
Forest Born comes out on September 15 and Fire in October.
I'm also waiting for new books by Tamora Pierce coming out in a year or two or three.

April, 2010 Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files. I. Cannot. Wait!!!!

>67 Jenson_AKA_DL: - absolutely.

Impatiently awaiting Dragon Haven and hoping to hear news of another book in the Temeraire series by Naomi Novik.........Tongues of Serpents?

I can't wait for Fire and Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore I loved loved loved Graceling
Also Queen of Song and Souls by C L Wilson

Another to add to my growing list: Princeps Fury by Jim Butcher, due for release in December.

I'm going to add my voice into the crowd of those waiting for Republic of Thieves to be published. It seems like every time I check out the release day, it's a few months later that the previous time I looked :( Amazon now has it at July 6, 2010. The first time I looked, it was September 2009. Then it was January 2010. Now July. Boo.

I'm going to have to add Patrick Rothfuss to my 'to buy' list (along with a few others :P ). I've never heard of him, but after checking out a few reviews, both here and on some other sights, he seems like an all around hit with people!

Rebecca Ann, the first Rothfuss is very good, see if you can get it from the library.
But there are 2 big problems...
1) It is told as a fllashback, so the big horrible bad thing that is out to get the good things (our hero for instance) obviously hasn't or doesn't since hero is telling us all about it.
2) we are waiting a long time for book 2 of the trilogy. A long time. Not as long as waiting for anything by George RR Martin yet, but a lot longer then we should be waiting...

Waiting for Sword of Avalon, Diana Paxson, due out December 1. Just finished not too long ago Ravens of Avalon.

I'm waiting for The City in the Crags(?), the 5th book in the Steerswoman series by Rosemary Kirstein.

Having just finished Red Seas Under Red Skies I am totally stoked for Republic of Thieves.

I also just found about next year's Swords and Dark Magic anthology, which includes, among others, a new (non-Malazan) Steven Erikson story, and a new Black Company story!

Ah! There's a new Diana Paxton book about Avalon!! I didn't know that, that's why I love this thread.

#73 - waiting long indeed ... and considering the whole tale was supposedly already written while Rothfus was in grad school, it's surprising/troubling for volume 2 to be taking so long.

Big Joel... I agree, there is no excuse. If you had sold the entire thing, and it seems successfully, with all three books written, if book 2 needs some rewriting, that can not take more than a few (less than 6) months to get book 2 out. How long has it been now?

I was reading that one women author came to this only a decade ago, in her late forties and is publishing about three books a year. Asimov did 400+ books, it is a day job, especially if you are making the big bucks, which I have heard Rothfuss is making his living off of the money, so Asimov worked 9 to 5 at this. When I sit down and write a good day, with my other obligations I can do 3000 words that are good. When no other obligations 5000-6000, and if I am really inspired 10K.

I don't think Rothfuss has suffered the disease and hole that GRRM has dug for himself... (Sword of Fire and Ice will never end because the author will never write it all... Or maybe anymore of it...) but Rothfuss as I pointed out, gave too much away when he decided to use the three day telling of the tale format, three cantos, thus letting us know that he survives to the end so he can tell the legend... Takes out a lot of the drama.

So better do a rewrite to make the second book exciting... Oops, can lose ones way...

#75 There's a new Rosemary Kirstein? Wonderful! Any publication date yet?

#80 No publication date yet. And I've just learned that City in the Crags will be book #6:

"She reads from the book she’s currently working on. It will be the next volume in the Steerswoman series, but will NOT be called “The City in the Crags”. That book still exists, but has been bumped back one volume because she realized she needed some more development of other story elements before the events of that book. ..."

More info at therem.net.

At present I'm halfway through "The Dragon Keeper" which is living up to all my expectations (I can't put it down) and I've had an email from Amazon to say they have despatched "The Gathering Storm" which I pre-ordered so many months ago. I'll not get much work done this week!

I'm looking forward to seeing Guy Kay's new novel, Under Heaven, in the spring. Apparently it's set in China, not sure how long ago. I've been a bit disappointed in his last two, so I'm hoping for a return to form.

Malazan Tales of The Fallen 10, the sequel of the Painted Man, the sequel of The Name Of The Wind and the next ~10 Dresden Files books.

I am dying to read Philip Pullman's "Book of Dust", especially after reading "Lyra's Oxford", the companion book to the His Dark Materials trilogy. I'm also anxious to read the other companion book he has in mind for Will, a little green book.

A Dance with Dragons!!!

The wait is killing me, I want more Daenrys and Arya. Those two are among my favorite characters of all time.

*pouts*

-Kat

Muse and Reverie by Charles DeLint...I looooove his short stories!

My own - next year is sooo far away.

But with a real answer... I'm waiting for the next book from the following authors: Lyn Flewelling, Patrick Rothafuss, Nalini Singh, Carol Berg, Juliet Marillier, Jennifer Fallon - oh, darn, this list is getting too long.

And actually reading The Silver Mage by Katharine Kerr

86: Kat_In_Wonderland

You may not have that much longer to wait. George RR Martin recently told his publisher that he was ready to hand over the manuscript "soon".

EDIT: The source for this is here.

Well, I waited for quite a long time before buying the Janny Wurts "Alliance of Light" series specifically because I like to read straight through if I can. So, I was a bit puzzled and disappointed to find that the last book left what seemed like a lot of unresolved issues - not unacceptably so but quite definitely so. Now, I have learnt on this site that Janny has 3 more books coming to finish the series. Aggghhh. I think I will put the whole series on an upper shelf where I can't see them and come back in 5 years time to buy the next 3. I think I really wouldn't like reading them one at a time with long gaps in between.

Since I just finished reading The Sorceress, I'm going to have to say I'm waiting on The Necromancer. Also! Of course, Wise Man's Fear. I had no idea there was a sequal to The Lies of Locke Lamora! So I'll be picking the sequel up from the library tomorrow and then I'll be waiting on the third one. Now I'm all excited!

I have been waiting some time for
Diane Duane The Door into Starlight
volume 3 of the series was published in 1992!

>85 Leli1013: You've got me intrigued now about Pullman's Book of Dust I haven't read His Dark Materials in a while but I think I'll schedule them in next year for a re-read if there's to be a new book coming out!
I haven't got round to making a proper list of all the books I'm waiting for over the next few years but I know Mastiff by Tamora Pierce is going to be a priority and pre-ordered at the first opportunity along with a few other books.

#90 I'm relieved that there are more Alliance of Light books in the pipeline.

I'm not usually a big fan of epic fantasy nor of Twilight-type vampire romance, which is all that publishers seem to be producing at the moment, and I'm really struggling to find any new fantasy to read... I've only bought a fraction of my usual number of fantasy books in the last six months.

#94 Have you tried The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss yet? If you enjoy Janny's work, I'm sure you will enjoy it as well. Its one of the best fantasy novels I've read this year.

#94, Puddleshark, have you tried Carol Berg's work, yet? I found her first trilogy to be excellent, her stand alone Song of the Dragon very good, and her Lighthouse duology left me breathless.

Might keep you engaged while you're waiting - Arc III was titled Alliance of Light, and ended with Stormed Fortress. Arc IV will be Sword of the Canon, and begins with Initiate's Trial, which is nearly done.
The website at www.fantasyliterature.net lists the rest of the series titles, correclty - and also, is a great place to check out fantasy to read next. There is a whole stable of good reviewers, no spoilers in the reviews (for first books in series or standalones) and if you click to see the reviewer's lists, you can very quickly tell by their ratings which one matches your taste. I use this site a lot, to choose my next read, and to sort through the massive list of what is new. The list of their favorites is well worth a look.

and may I say that Initiate's Trial is eagerly awaited.
Today I have started Magic Study; I sat up in bed last night until the early hours to finish Poison Study.

#95 Thanks! I'm going to add The name of the wind to my Xmas list!

#96 I agree, Carole Berg's last two books were awe-inspiring - Breath and Bone restored my faith in the genre (somewhat undermined by large quantites of mediocre vampire romances)... And I'm definitely going to check out www.fantasyliterature.net - thanks!

#97 - Navigator7 - Waycool!

#98, puddleshark The Name of the Wind was extremely readable. I adored the opening. You will REALLY want to get to the second book, given where it ends. It was one of the favorited titles at Fanlit, too.

Thanks Janny (#99). I really liked the series so far and I am glad to know that some of my questions at the end may still be answered :) I guess it must sometimes feel as long a time writing them as it seems to me waiting. I'll give Carole Berg a try.

I'm waiting for Dance of Dragons too, like many others. Except I'm being patient because I know Martin's had a bad time of trying to write some of the chapters!

Also waiting for Shadowrise by Tad Williams, the conclusion to the rather wonderful Shadowmarch trilogy.

I've got A conspiracy of Kings by Megan Whalen Turner on order, and am counting down the days...

And I've just learnt that Caroline Stevermer has a new book Magic Below Stairs coming out this summer... I may have to order that as well, as I loved Sorcery and Cecilia and A college of magics.

I have been waiting years for The Third God by Ricardo Pinto to be published. Then waiting for it to go into MMPB in the UK (not being published here). It is the last book in the Stone Dance of the Chameleon series.

I just got it in from the Book Depository the other day.

The second of the Berinfell Prophecies

Silver Borne by, Patricia Briggs!have it preordered but can't wait!

Linger by Maggie Stiefvater
Pegasus by Robin McKinley
Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore
A Wizard of Mars by Diane Duane
Behemoth by Scott Westerfeld
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan

I think these are all due out this year with the possible exception of Bitterblue, some in mere weeks or days.

Waiting for the continuation of the first storyline of the Hendees Dhampyr-Saga and - maybe - some new material from White Wolf Old World of Darkness. There was talk they would start supporting the old system again.

#65 Good news - there will be a book to follow Dragon Haven but no details as yet.

Tongues of Serpents by Naomi Novik......July does not seem so far away now.

The Black Prism by Brent Weeks.....looking forward to August.

I just found The Gaslight Dogs by Karin Lowachee. It is a fantasy, her first (at least in book length).

She did the wonderful Warchild series which was SF. I hope her new publisher will pick up the series so she can continue.

I was waiting for this one so long, I forgot about it (don't think it even had a working title when it was announced).

Flora's Fury, the final book in Ysabeau Wilce's Flora Segunda trilogy. It's been a long time a-comin' and just for curiosity a few nights ago I searched it on a Borders kiosk and see an anticipated September 1 release date.

And of course it would be nice if some day Clive Barker could finish up on Abarat.

The White Road but that is due out in only a week or so...

2nd of Kane Chronicles

I just downloaded it from iBooks:)

River Marked by, Patricia Briggs Finally comes out tuesday!I preordered it can't wait to read it!

@114> Me too, on a Kindle pre-order.

Count another Republic of thieves eager awaiter.

And a number of others already out but for which I'm waiting for a MMPB or otherwise unexpensive copy, Mount TBR is big enough that waiting a bit more won't kill me.

3 books I'm waiting for the most. A Dance With Dragons by George R. R. Martin, Ghost Story by Jim Butcher, and The Night Eternal by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan.

Waiting with bated breath for Ghost Story. I think this is the most nail-biting end Butcher has ever given us.

'Prince of Thorns', of course :)

But mainly 'A Dance With Dragons'

Also Elspeth Coopers 'Songs of the Earth'

And Doug Hulick's 'Among Thieves' - though actually that's out today I think

#94 puddleshark, no idea what you mean - there is more fantasy than ever before out there, see here http://www.bscreview.com/2011/03/fifth-annual-bscreview-book-tournament-schedule... 64 fantasy books probably about half of which are epic

I'm currently waiting for
Ambassador's Mission
Order of the Scales
Destiny's Star
Reluctant Mage
Beauty and the Werewolf By Mercedes Lackey
Intrigues
Seer of Sevenwaters
All of which I have pre-ordered

Then my wish list looks like this:
Bishop Twilight's Dawn
Canavan Rogue
K miller Blight of mages
Goodman Eona
Pratchett Snuff
Durham Sacred Band
T Williams Shadowheart
J Carey Saints astray
Friedman Legacy of Kings
Flewelling Casket of souls
J Carey Naamah's Blessing
Lynch Republic of thieves
Cashore Bitterblue
A few have already been published but i'm waiting for them in paperback.

Which takes me to june next year
thats not even counting the new reccomendations that I have come across that are already published.

Looking forward to the second book from a favorite blog author, Manvotionals: Timeless Wisdom and Advice on Living the Seven Manly Virtues

@118

I agree. I was heartbroken when Butcher pushed back the original release date, but at least it wasn't too far back.

I've waited so long for George R. R. Martin's Dance with Dragons that I can wait for it to be used paperback. I'll get it cheap, the guy who feels the need to buy it new will get money back for his effort, and George, well George can be happy with the money he is making on the mini-series instead of having taken the time to write the damn book.

I'm looking forward to Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi (an authorized reimagining of H. Beam Piper's Little Fuzzy). I thought it was out already, but I guess next month?

I agree. As much as I want to read Dragons, I'm surely not going to give GRRM money for it. He's blatantly lied to his fans on several occasions. I'll just wait to borrow it either from a friend or from the library.

I hate to bring this possibility up, I hope people don't think its too morbid, but what happens if George R.R. Martin dies before the series is finished, he is in his sixties and it has taken him 5 years to write this last book! (that's if he sticks to schedule and it is published this year) Would his publishers take his notes and get another author to finish it do you think? I know it wouldn't be the same but I would hate to be left not knowing how things end (or indeed began)

It's not morbid. It's a very real possibility, especially with what happened to Jordan. Unfortunately, Martin has stated that he doesn't plan on anyone else finishing the story even if this should happen.

Do you think it has taken five years to write. I think six months tops. The rest of the time he has been doing other stuff. So if he dies, someone else will have to finish it (even if he does not want it done the estate will probably allow for it-look at the post above about Piper's Fuzzy work), and probably do it faster without adding new protagonists in every book that make for side tales that are so long that they could become their own novels.

We have thick rich worlds, and strong secondary characters in other tales. But it does seem to me that other authors have been able to focus and keep churning out material instead of using that as an excuse to delay more writing.

Perhaps time to revisit this post on the subject of George R.R. Martin, I'm thinking...

Ha Ha 'George R.R. Martin is not your bitch' fair point :), I am not so bothered about the wait really, I can always read other things, I'm just worried that the series won't get finished and I will never know how it was meant to end, which I think is a tribute to Martin's skills as a writer

The idea that it takes six months to write a book the size of GRRM's clunkers is hilarious. It takes many authors of average-sized books years to write one.

Scalzi's Fuzzy book is not a continuation of the Fuzzy series, it is a reimagining - he took the premise and updated it and reworked it into a new story. Also, as far ask I know, Piper's series was not incomplete nor did he say he didn't want anyone else to continue it. Fuzzy Nation does not support your case.

@Blue If your post is based on my post, then one has to think about the output, since according to GRRM himself Dance was half done and he was splitting it off from his previous book when the long wait started.

An author like Sanderson produces a few thousand pages of material last year and this. So you may be laughing, but if GRRM was serious he should be writing. He wasn't.

The first books came out very fast. How many pages do you think he should write a day? 10? 20? 1? It wasn't our idea to make a trilogy longer than three books, and surely the series was very rich and could have been told in three books. But you know, money talks.

Which is my point about the Piper franchise. There have been two other books by other authors in that world, but one has to have the rights to do anything in a copyright universe or wait a long time. Piper has not been gone 75 years so I have to imagine the rights holder agreed to Scalzi's novel and are getting something for it. (Do you think they might be altruistic?) If so, I am dying to read the next Robert Ludlum and V C Andrews books.

So I am being facetious, but as we see with the Jordan work, a good series can be continued if the author dies.

With GRRM, writing about 300000 word length novel, six months to get to second draft should be easy even at 5 pages a day, 25 pages a week, he could finish that in a year.

Oh, dear--that's a trifle harsh, don't you think? It's my experience that there are no "coulds" and "shoulds" in writing a book...and you can't know that GRRM wasn't "serious" about his writing. Books aren't widgets. Writing is not manufacturing. It's frustrating for passionate fans, but it's reality.

I've always loved that post by Neil Gaiman.

"An author like Sanderson produces a few thousand pages of material last year and this. So you may be laughing, but if GRRM was serious he should be writing. He wasn't."

So, here's the problem with that statement: George RR Martin is not Brandon Sanderson. Period. Every author is different. Every HUMAN is different. What you might think is "easy" for one author may be next to impossible for another. And in any case...George RR Martin is not your bitch. You aren't owed anything by him. There's no contract stating that all he can ever do is work on the book you want him to work on. Period. So please, stop beating the dead horse and go read something else, hhmm?

You know what, I take it back. It's not selfish of him to not want some yahoo to try to write books in his name after he dies. It's a totally understandable response to so-called "fans" who need to find other things to worry about.

Haha. Way to regurgitate Gaiman's catchphrase. Too bad his own rant doesn't mention a lot of things like how Martin has lied to his fans for years about Dance and has acted like a child when it comes to negative criticism.

I have been thinking about the other posts for he last few hours. Gaiman is wrong. There is a contract between GRRM and anyone who has paid money for books that he wrote in the series before.

I have $100. GRRM tells me that he has a trilogy and for $75, 3 hardbacks I will be able to read the beginning middle and end. Then he starts adding books to it.Now he wants more money and still can't finish his part of telling me what the end will be.

He had me use that money on him already fully leading me on that the story will conclude. And then should he die, to deny anyone "Hack" or "Yahoo" to write how it ends is also a disservice and his breaking the contract. So indeed, once GRRM started taking my money for an incomplete work, one that he was able to pop out a 1000 page book in a year or two before he did indeed become my, and everyone else who has paid money that made it's way to his pocket, 'Bi--h"

Jordan showed that he had some care about this, though he stretched his series out as well. He made no bones about completing the work even as he knew he was going to die.

As for really caring, I gave that up long ago. GRRM's other writings have never fascinated me, nor do I think them that good. Even Song of Fire and Ice I find not as good as other fantasies though there are moments when it was very good story telling. Easier to read Tolkein over and over, or Jordan.

The last thing I remember from authors who really did work at the craft is from Asimov. Writing is a job, and you go to do it every day, from 9 to 5. Perhaps that is why he had 400+ books and GRRM has so few. He has shown that he has other interests then writing and wanted to spend these last years pursuing them, like playing with his figurine collection, instead of providing everyone who has paid their money to find out the end of the story.

Wow. Just wow.

137: You didn't pay for a "story". You paid for a book. You got what you paid for. The "contract" was complete at that point.

Now quit whining.

Ok..... I hadn't realised this subject was such a hot potato, people obviously feel very strongly about it. It would be a shame if the story is never finished, I would be very dissapointed, but it's Martin's life, it's his choice whether he carries on writing it or not. I think it's a bit harsh to suggest he is lazy or selfish I'm sure he had every intention of carrying on the series when he started it, if he is struggling now he can't be blamed for that.

Alright everyone. However we may feel about the subject, this really isn't the thread to discuss it in. We should all get back on topic.

As such, I'm also waiting for The Bride Wore Black Leathers by Simon R. Green, which will complete his Nightside series.

the sequel to the lost hero by rick riordan!!! :D

I was waiting for The Wise Man's Fear, the sequel to The Name of the Wind, and that has come out. It was worth the wait. Now I'm looking forward to Kristin Cashore's Bitterblue. I had hoped it might be out by now.

A Dance With Dragons - George Martin (July)
The Emperor's Knife - Mazarkis Williams (October)
Prince of Thorns - :) - (August)

#144 I'm waiting for Dance With Dragons too! Is Prince of Thorns the next book in the Greg Keys series? I've just finished the first book.

#145 That was the author's plug for his own book, hence the smiley face :)

But I am looking forward to Prince of Thorns coming out too.

I'm looking forward to Patricia Wrede's next book in her "Frontier Magic" series--Across the Great Barrier

I've been waiting for The Uncertain Places, Lisa Goldsteins first book in several years. And it's out this month!

I would also love to read Michael Moorcock's biography of Mervyn and Maeve Peake, which has been promised for years.

Nice to see that half of the titles from my previous post 2 years ago have come out.

Still waiting on Stover's last Caine book, retitled Caine's Law and due next spring.

Donaldson's The Last Dark should still come out in 2013.

Not a hint about Card's Master Alvin (and I'm probably past the point of caring, though the completist in me will buy the paperback, if nothing else.)

Since then, I've added a few more biggies:

Scott Lynch's Republic of Thieves.

Patrick Rothfuss's third book.

Butcher's Ghost Story.

GRRM's A Dance With Dragons, just so I can finally start reading that series.

Ian C. Esslemont's next Malazan novel, Sceptre and Throne (or whatever they end up calling it) and Erikson's upcoming related trilogy, starting with The Forge of Darkness.

Also, Patrick Lee's final (!?) Travis Chase book, Deep Sky, due this December.

I'm waiting for Cold Fire by Kate Elliott, the second book in the SpiritWalker trilogy. It's supposed to come out in Sept of this year.

Does anyone know is Dance with Dragons going to be the last book in the series or not?

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Oops sorry Mark I'll have to keep an eye out for your book August then ;)

The third book in Elizabeth Moon's Paladin's Legacy series. Yes, I know it's not due out until early next year. But. But. I'm dying for more!

All the books in my previous posts have been published, except Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore. Still looking forward to that one.

There is a new upcoming Young Wizards book by Diane Duane that will probably be coming out next year.

Also I think she has another Omnitopia book in the works.

Robin McKinley's Pegasus part 2 will be out...sometime.

And there's the next book in Tamora Pierce's Beka Cooper series.

Also, Goliath by Scott Westerfeld.

Oh, another Young Wizards Book by Diane Duane? Yay!!!

155 Marissa - Yup! She's posted a blurb and apparently the title will be Games Wizards Play but isn't discussing possible release dates yet, which is why I'm assuming next year at the earliest.

Kay @151: I believe ASoIaF is slated to be 7 books total. I could be wrong on the number, but for sure ADWD is not the end.

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Please not another five year wait! I'll be old and grey before the end at this rate ;)

156--It looks terrific--thanks for the link!

159 Marissa - You're welcome! I'm so looking forward to it, I love her books :)

GRRM has additional motivation to speed up production now, with the HBO miniseries filming a book per season (although SoS may be split across two seasons to do it justice).

No one seems to have linked to his full explanation of why it took so long to write DwD: http://grrm.livejournal.com/217066.html#cutid1

Two more books to come: "The Winds of Winter" and "A Dream of Spring" (working titles).

Thanks for posting that link. I was very hesitant to start reading ASOIAF, but think I'll get started. Good to hear in his own words why it took so long.

Personally, I've been waiting for Susanna Clarke to write something. I assume someday in the future I'll hear something, but I can't even find her old website anymore. For all I know she could have stopped writing altogether and just disappeared.

Waiting for the third in the Maze Runner series by James Dashner called The Death Cure that's not out till October. And also the third of the Berinfell Prophecies Series by Wayne Thomas Batson

I'm waiting for Inheritance by Chris Paolini. It has taken FAR too long for that series to be completed. I hope it hasn't been so long that I've completely forgotten most of the important stuff from the series, knowing that I don't have time to re-read them before the last book is released.

>164 hjensen: ditto here!

I'm waiting for two books that are being rewritten:

Elizabeth Hand is updating her 1997 environmental apocalypse novel Glimmering, apparently to take into account more recent scientific understanding. Amazon says it will be published in February, 2012.

Peter Beagle is doing a major rewrite/expansion of his 1986 novel The Folk of the Air. The new work will be titled Avicenna, after the Berkeley-inspired town where the story takes place. No release date I know of.

Mine, lol.

No, seriously, I'm anxious for the next Temeraire Book

I would be too if I read the latest one. I've only read the first two, and I'm killing myself for only doing that much.

I am waiting for the new Nicholas Sparks book!!!

The Son of Neptune. I'm hoping Clarisse LaRue will make more than just a cameo appearance, though I'm not too hopeful about this. She's far and away my favorite character from the original "Percy Jackson" series, and I refuse to watch the movie because they cut her out.

Also waiting for the The Son of Neptune. I also agree that cutting out Clarisse in the movie was a terrible decision.

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