Sci-fi and Heroic Fantasy discussion

The Wheel has turned another revolution, and we've done some looking back at last year. Now, let's look forward to this year...

What Science Fiction or Fantasy books are you looking forward to in 2018?

(Cue "Winds of Winter" chorus.... :)

G33z3r wrote: "What Science Fiction or Fantasy books are you looking forward to in 2018?

(Cue "Winds of Winter" chorus.... :) "

I thought The Winds of Winter wasn't due out until 2020, though there may be some Chapters preview?

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

Only Human by Sylvain Neuvel

There is FINALLY a publication date for The Monster Baru Cormorant. Whole series have begun and ended in the time its taken this second book to come out.

Bloody Rose by Nicholas Eames is definitely up there for me. Kings of the Wyld was quite awesome!

The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden is also supposed to come out this year.

Also not entirely sure but I think that State Tectonics by Malka Older might be set to come out this year too...not too clear on that one.

Those are the ones coming to mind right now.

Hmm, still no publish date for Butcher's Peace Talks, was hoping it would be this year. It's been a least 4 years since the last one. Wonder if something happened to him since he's not publishing much of anything at all now, not even in his new steampunk series and his Codex Alera series already finished so that's not taking his time. He used to have one Dresden book a year like clockwork.

I've pre-ordered the newest Chronicles of Elantra book Cast in Deception by Michelle Sagara, as well as Olympians: Hermes: Tales of the Trickster - George O'Connor. I got started on those Olympian graphic novels by winning a couple through Goodreads, been looking forward to this one, tricksters are fun.

Not sure what else is coming out, I usually don't end up reading things the year they come out, even in series I've already started, just in case there are big dry spells and I need a buffer (eg. Butcher, Martin...fortunately didn't start Rothfuss yet) so I won't actually read Cast in Deception this year, I'm intentionally three books behind :)

I'll second Spinning Silver and Bloody Rose and of course go ahead and put me down for The Winds of Winter.

I guess if were mentioning Winds of Winter might as well add The Thorn of Emberlain to the list 😁 That one might be more likely though since Lynch has been a bit more communicative.

I am looking to read Head On (Lock In #2) by John Scalzi which will be released on April 17th and the as yet untitled book (The Expanse #8) by James S.A. Corey which will probably be released in December based on the release dates of the last two books.

I'm kind of disappointed I don't have anything I'm really psyched about, and everything I'm looking forward to is a continuation of an existing series. Maybe I haven't heard of the awesome stuff that's coming up!

Also, the next few months I will still be catching up with 2017.

Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers
Can she write three winners in a row?

Head On by John Scalzi
Does this premise have legs, or has the gimmick been exhausted?

Wrath of Empire by Brian McClellan
More Powdermage

The Infernal Battalion by Django Wexler
More Shadow Campaign

Redemption's Blade: After The War by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Points of Impact by Marko Kloos
I dunno, this is beginning to drag on forever.

G33z3r wrote: "Head On by John Scalzi
Does this premise have legs, or has the gimmick been exhausted?"

I'm going with the second one, even though I will probably read it just to complain about the over-reliance on "snarky dialogue."

Also, that's the name of a really good song by the Jesus and Mary Chain, and Pixies did a terrific cover of the song also. I will be thinking about that song whenever I see the title of this book.
Yes, I am a child of the 80s.

Andrea wrote: "Hmm, still no publish date for Butcher's Peace Talks, was hoping it would be this year. It's been a least 4 years since the last one. Wonder if something happened to him since he's not publishing m..."

Butcher originally only planned his Dresden Files to be 15 books. Since those 15 are finished and published, I imagine he's probably spending most of his time outlining new material, both for Dresden, written and graphic novel, and possibly new series. I honestly didn't expect him to write more than the planned 15, excluding short stories and novellas of course.

The ones that have not been mentioned:

Revenant Gun
Artificial Condition
Rogue Protocol
Exit Strategy
Apocalypse Nyx
Dragon Pearl
Space Opera
An Informal History of the Hugos

Silvana wrote: "The ones that have not been mentioned:
Revenant Gun
Artificial Condition
Rogue Protocol
Exit Strategy..."

I definitely need to add these.


Silvana wrote: "An Informal History of the Hugos ..."
Walton also wrote the non-fiction What Makes This Book So Great. Like that, all the essays have appeared on Tor.com before. So maybe I'll just mark it already read :)

Casey wrote: "Andrea wrote: "Hmm, still no publish date for Butcher's Peace Talks, was hoping it would be this year. It's been a least 4 years since the last one. Wonder if something happened to him since he's n..."

Interesting, I didn't know that. However the series doesn't wrap up so we're left hanging. I was just a bit worried about him since he hadn't published anything recently and he just started that new steampunk series so I would have expected something on that end. After all stuff can happen to people, the author of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell got sick, that's why we never got the promised sequel. As I understand it Rothfuss also was having some issues (or was it Lynch? or both?). Martin...well no excuse, he's doing plenty of other stuff except the stuff people want him to do ;)

Im looking foward to the History of the Hugos too...hope there are lots of pics as the bases change from year to year...

In fact, i am the only person to have won three unrecorded invisable Hugos...bet you didn't know that...

Nice! Just got a notification from Goodreads about a book called The Tangled Lands by Bacigalupi and Buckell. I read one of the four novellas (The Alchemist) contained in it and thought reading more would be nice. Guess I'll be keeping my eye out for this one.

And Butcher lives! There is a new Dresden graphic novel coming out - Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files: Dog Men.

Andrea wrote: "Nice! Just got a notification from Goodreads about a book called The Tangled Lands by Bacigalupi and Buckell. ..."

Was just reading an interesting Tobias Buckell short story from this month*'s Clarkesworld last night: A World to Die For.

(* It's still this month for another 16 hours! :)

A little birdie tells me that Wildside Press has plans in the works to publish the orginal version of John W Campbell's classic Who Goes There? Its 45 pages longer than the version we all know and fear and comes compleate with the orginal ending. There is also talk of a deluxe edition. Cant wait...

Spooky1947 wrote: "A little birdie tells me that Wildside Press has plans in the works to publish the orginal version of John W Campbell's classic Who Goes There? Its 45 pages longer than the version we all know and ..."

Interesting. I didn't know there was another version.

By the way, someone posted a link in another group to the short story "The Things" by Peter Watts. It's good reading for anyone who enjoyed the movie "The Thing" which was of course based on Who Goes There?.

Here's the link for anyone who's interested: http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts...

John Carpenter did a great job directing The Thing (1982). I watch it every time it comes on tv/cable.

Apparently JRR Tolkien is still writing. His latest, The Fall of Gondolin, manuscript from a recent shipment from the Undying Lands, will be published here in late August.

G33z3r wrote: "Apparently JRR Tolkien is still writing. His latest, The Fall of Gondolin, manuscript from a recent shipment from the Undying Lands, will be published here in late August."

I love seeing new authors making their mark on the industry. He's so dedicated to his craft.

Tolkien still writing? He passed away in 1972.