new book

Alastair Reynolds · 24 Nov 1998, 09:42 · from whorl-v0009.mbox · original

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From: areynold at estsa2.estec.esa.nl (Alastair Reynolds)
Subject: Re: (whorl) new book
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 10:42:12 +0100 (MET)
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alga:
>=20
> It's depressing that the first book won't be till fall '99. I wonder if we
> can cohere till then. We've done well so far, but to hold off a full year
> longer than first expected will be difficult.
>=20

Yes, that's ages to wait...

What's the betting it'll turn into a tetrology like TBOTNS? (According to
the Castle of the Otter, the planned third and final volume got too large
and they had to split it).

I'm very happy as while I was in Devon a week or so back (for Milford!), I
found all four volumes of TBOTNS in the original UK paperbacks - a bit
dog-eared and faded, but with the wonderfully evocative Bruce Pennington=20
cover paintings, which have always defined my mind's eye view of Wolfe's=20
landscapes. Actually I only found 3 of them, cursed my bad luck, but then
Ben Jeapes pointed out that the fourth volume had strayed a few books along
the shelf...

Al

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