Woo hoo! Amazon finally has the trade paperback of A Fortress in Shadow in stock! My order is placed, for that, A Cruel Wind trade paperback (I already own the original 3 books, I wrote the first review of them on Amazon 11 years ago) and The Tower of Fear mass market paperback.With free shipping and my gift card, I should have them in a week or so, and for only $5.37!
I still hold out hope that the release of An Empire Unacquainted With Defeat ahead of Wrath of Kings is a sign that the missing Dread Empire manuscript either surfaced or has been recreated. I'm looking forward to what Glen has to say in his "detailed" (according to Nightshade) introduction to An Empire Unacquainted With Defeat. Maybe he'll shed some light on this issue!
As to Angry Lead Skies, I'm about halfway done. It seems like around page 125 or so the "real" voice of Garrett takes over, and now, at page 175, it feels more like the rest of the series. That could still change, of course! I'm hoping it stays the path and remaind good from here on out.
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Michael Llaneza
<maserati@speakeasy.net> wrote:
On Oct 24, 2008, at 6:42 AM, Lawrence Jenab wrote:
> I thought I read an interview (I can't remember where) that
> confirmed my own suspicion, which was that the pending contract was
> the only reason Glen wrote the book--i.e., that he thought the
> character and the situation had run its course. He's written dozens
> of fantastic, energetic, and thoughtful books--ALS just isn't one of
> them, IMO. The Tyranny books, written around the same time, are so
> much denser and more intensely felt that I'm guessing that's where
> his heart was.
I gotta go with this. ALS just doesn't "fit" with the rest of the
series, although in the sense of being a more juvenile sex comedy it
does follow Petty Pewter Gods (which is otherwise a much better book
than ALS). Fortunately for us, he's back on track and looking set to
wrap the series with a happy ending in the next book or two.
I'm just hoping the omnibus Dread Empire reprints do well enough to
justify more books in the series.
No, I'm not taking my medication, why do you ask ?
--
Michael Llaneza
maserati@speakeasy.net
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