Update on Publication!

[seawasp]

Grand Central Arena, I have been informed by Eric, will be released in May 2010.

Threshold, sequel to Boundary, will be released in June 2010!

I will have TWO hardcovers out within one month of each other!

SQUEEEEEE!

Comments

[angoel.livejournal.com]

Next challenge - two hardcovers out within one week... ;)

[the-blue-fenix.livejournal.com]

He's not Nora Roberts. Or Mercedes Lackey.

[seawasp]

That's a challenge to the publisher. Give me the contracts and I will make it so!

[shanejayell.livejournal.com]

I'm looking forward to Threshold. :)

[dsrtao]

Yay!

[redrose999.livejournal.com]

YAY!

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

[shana.livejournal.com]

YAY!

[cordova829.livejournal.com]

Awesome! Now I can finally put something next to Boundary...

[the-blue-fenix.livejournal.com]

Wonderful. I expect to buy both of them. As e-books, but you know how I am about e-books.

On a related Pulpy note, I'm re-reading "Galactic Patrol" as a run-up to the "Middleman" DVD release. It makes sense in my head, anyway.

[seawasp]

I don't think I know "Middleman"; what's the connection in your head?

[llennhoff.livejournal.com]

MiddleMan!

Also, Wikipedia

Like Kimball Kinnison, the Middleman receives cryptic aid from some force beyond his comprehension for reasons not entirely clear, but apparently benevolent. But the Middleman fights hidden horrors by and large, not the open forces of Boskone. So I'm also going to be interested in the response.

[the-blue-fenix.livejournal.com]

Oh, my. "Mark, bearing in mind that this restaurant closes in three hours, please advise me what kind of gun to buy." (Granted you don't know Mark, but do you need to?)

Middle vs Lens:

One, his speaking style. "Ghosts of the Living!" in place of swearing has a lot in common with Klono's etc. etc.

Two, his whole approach to the heroism business is so very very pulpish. (e.g. a situation where he has to fight 100 luchadores with his bare hands which I swear was blocked out with George Pal's "Doc Savage" on t.v. in the corner of the room.)

Actually, I'd go with listing the differences. Which are, (1) although the Middlewatch is a big chunky multipurpose communications device, it doesn't enable mind-reading or kill nonauthorized wearers. And (2) Girls are allowed to become Middlemen.

Oh, and (3) being set in the current world things like negaspheres and indetectable intergalactic speeders are thin on the ground. Although alien invasions have been thwarted several times.

[llennhoff.livejournal.com]

OTOH, at least in season 1 we don't see the kind of rapid escalation of technologies I associate with Lensman and Skylark.

CotL (and Skylark Duquense to a lesser extent) show, in my opinion, that if a reanimated Doc was writing the series for the first time today he'd skip the 'sex based differences make a lens incompatible with the female mind.'

Incidentally, given that Arisians have weak immortality, is there any evidence that there exist female Arisians by the time of Kinnison?

[seawasp]

The Arisians have evolved to a nonsexual state by becoming pure intellects, as far as I can tell. They USED to be very much like human beings, according to Mentor, and thus probably had sexes, but the modern Arisians are pretty much asexual, though in a very different way from the Eddorians.

"Weak" immortality? They have Pretty Damn Strong immortality. They are almost unkillable -- in fact, *NO* physical force, howsoever directed or controlled, can hurt them at all. And the amount of MENTAL force needed to kill one, even a child, is something almost beyond comprehension even by a mind stable at the Second Stage.

[llennhoff.livejournal.com]

You are right - 'weak' immortality is a poor description, especially given that as far as I can tell no Arisian perished in the 2 billion years of the war with Eddore.

I do recall that Arisians used to have gender, since all life in the two galaxies formed from Arisian spores and they all had two sexes. I was wondering, why, within the logic of the universe, women had a sex based aversion to the lens yet there were female Arisians. Your explanation could cover it.

[sub-musashi.livejournal.com]

Wow! Congrats!

[rosencrantz23.livejournal.com]

mazel tov! Can't wait to read them; I've been looking for a new *good* read

[ravynstoneabbey]

/adds to the list

[jennythe-reader.livejournal.com]

That's awesome news! Congratulations!

[hms42]

Congratulations! That is wonderful news!

[rob-thompson.livejournal.com]

I too would like to say congratulations! That's awesome and it couldn't happen to a better writer!

[rezendi.livejournal.com]

Awesome! And hopefully nicely synergistic.

[baronger.livejournal.com]

congrats

[burger-eater.livejournal.com]

Fantastic!

[melchar.livejournal.com]

Woot! Congratulations! [And so - off to add to my 'must buy' book list.]

[barbarakitten-t.livejournal.com]

congratulations!!!!*hug*

[tychist.livejournal.com]

Congratulations. I shall put both on my immediate buy list.

[kira-snugz.livejournal.com]

ohhh awesome!!! CONGRATS!!!

[nuranar.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! That is fantastic news!!!

[condorfan.livejournal.com]

Yayyyyyyyyyy!!! from all here. ;)

[laptop-mechanic.livejournal.com]

Outstanding!

[seawasp]

Josh Saddler is a minor character in Threshold and I haven't even killed him off yet.

I haven't POSTED any snippets of GCA on the Bar yet, officially, that's why. Probably won't start until around October, based on normal snippet length and frequency and so on.

[elainegrey.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! Hurrah!

[kencyr.livejournal.com]

Just awesome. Congratulations!

[linguabriana.livejournal.com]

A sequel to Boundary? That's awesome! What can you tell us about it? I'll definitely have to stay on the lookout for that one.

[seawasp]

Picks up a couple years after Boundary leaves off, follows most of the same characters as the prior book -- Helen, A.J., Maddie, Joe -- with a few added characters. Goes farther into the solar system and there's more action than the first book.

[linguabriana.livejournal.com]

That's awesome! I'm re-reading Boundary right now and I love it just as much as the first time I picked it up. A sequel will be excellent.

[dbdatvic.livejournal.com]

exccccellent. My books.tobuy.txt file has been updated.

--Dave (any remote chance your publishers would maybe like to release a paperback simultaneously with the hardback? INNOVATION IS NEEDED)