Soldier Series

I'm 11 chapters through Sidon and am desperate to know if there will be further Latro books. Does anybody know? Is there a fanclub we can join to keep up to date with the works of the legend himself, Mr. Gene Wolfe? I'm new to this list so sorry if this has been answered already.

On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 21:10:00 +0000, "Powell ...." <just_like_powell at hotmail.com> said:

The ARC of Sidon includes the following sentence on the back cover: "At last we have a new [Latro] book, and Wolfe promises more in the future." Our understanding here in the list (about as close to a fanclub as you're likely to get) is that he will start writing Latro IV once he's done with his pirate novel. As for Latro's V and VI, or beyond, who knows?

Wolfe told me in 2002 that his original plan was to write a whole bunch of 'Soldier' books, but that after the second, his publisher told him there was no market for them. But by 2002 his publisher had changed his mind about that, and he promised 'Sidon' after WK was done (which happened). I imagine he will go back to his original plan. . ___

The Soldier books could go on for a while, I'm personally waiting for Latro's return to Italy

Can anyone tell me if the new volume holds to the original atmosphere of 'Soldier of the Mist'? It had the diffuse, dreamlike quality that one would assume an amnesiac/seer might know....I am curious as to whether the newer works on Latro maintain that subtle layer of energy. Apologies if this has been asked/answered already or quite often- I am new to this list.....

Theresa Flemming asks,

Even better, in my opinion. Egypt and the lands to the south have some very charismatic gods for Latro to see and chat with, but he still has to meet his companions anew every day and re-read the scroll. He still feels like the same character to me after 17 years in storage. -- Dan Rabin

From: "Theresa Flemming" <evacuate55 at hotmail.com> Reply-To: The Urth Mailing List <urth at lists.urth.net> To: urth at lists.urth.net Subject: Re: (urth) Soldier Series Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:16:37 -0600 Can anyone tell me if the new volume holds to the original atmosphere of 'Soldier of the Mist'? It had the diffuse, dreamlike quality that one would assume an amnesiac/seer might know....I am curious as to whether the newer works on Latro maintain that subtle layer of energy. Teresa, It is my opinion that Wolfe did maintain the same atmosphere of "aware dream" in Soldier of Sidon. I confess I personally wanted more in the volume, but like with other things of his I've been not immediately pleased with, the book keeps coming back in my mind--scenes attitudes comments.

Sadly, Latro IV does not seem to be on the docket, but Wolfe's next two novels sound, uh, interesting. For details, see: http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=5&id=40135

The two projects the article is referring to are novellas, I think. The only book they are discussing is 'Pirates Freedom', after that no one knows yet... But, let’s face it, anything that comes out of Wolfes pen will be read by us! H?lsningar, NissE "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." - Albert Einstein

I'm hoping pirate-boy is not a naive, 18-year-old, first person narrator who has lost his memory. Rex Lycanthrosaurus <lycanthrosaurus at fastmail.fm> wrote: Sadly, Latro IV does not seem to be on the docket, but Wolfe's next two novels sound, uh, interesting. For details, see: http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=5&id=40135