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What are you waiting for?

The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch

The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss (I am patient (not really) but he showed so much potential with The Name of the Wind. I have no problem waiting for the next one!)

Iorich by Steven Brust Will be out tomorrow!

Can't wait

Almost forgot one... though it is a YA book... I still cannot wait for it to come out!
The Deathday Letter by Shaun Hutchinson

I am getting to the point of complete lack of interest in The Wise Man's Fear. I loved The Name of the Wind and was so looking forward to the sequel, but it's been years plural now and it seems as if he's no closer to finishing it. He blogs daily and interacts with his fans and carries on like a superstar, but he's not writing his book. He just held a contest in November where you could get a character named after yourself in the book. *sigh* It's a disappointment.

You sound like I feel about George RR Martin, Sisimka :)

I'm definitely looking forward to the new Scott Lynch novel too.

Also:

- the next installment in L.E. Modesitt Jr.'s new Imager series.
- I will probably wait to read Robin Hobb's newest until she completes the series (I think there are only supposed to be 2 in this one anyway?).
- I was lucky enough to read an advance copy of the new Steven Brust (and definitely recommend it!).
- There's a new Gene Wolfe book called "The Sorceror's House" due in March.
- I also look forward to the sequel(s) to "Sasha" by Joel Shepherd.
- The sequel to Melinda Snodgrass' "The Edge of Reason"
- Dave Duncan is starting a new series (The Brothers Magnus)
- and despite not being a huge fan, I will probably check out the first book of Brandon Sanderson's new series. It's called The Stormlight Archives and book 1 is called "The Way of Kings".

He’s not writing his book? That’s kind of an erroneous statement. Most writers tend to have a schedule say 7:30am till noon. After that, it’s their time. So who’s to say he shouldn’t take time from his day to connect to his fans, raise money for a good cause, change his new babies diapers. They are people, not Vietnamese sweat shop workers. Though, they probably end up getting paid the same. Not to mention his blog is fairly entertaining.

I remember reading G.R.R Martins blogs, the hate mail that man must receive. People ordering him to get back to writing. Asking why he was writing a blog instead of a book. Simple answer. They need a break too, they need to run errands, spend time with family, enjoy life just as we do. Martins books are pretty in depth, alternating characters, thick plot. I can’t image that takes a couple months to bang out.

Trust me, I want A Wise Man’s Fear out like yesterday but rushing it will just make it shitty and disappointing.

Those are good choices right there, Pamela. Additionally, I'll put up these:

The Bastards and the Knives by Scott Lynch
The Black Prism by Brent Weeks
Dust of Dreams by Steven Erikson (US Edition)
The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

and especially, Towers of Midnight by Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson

I'll also list A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin, though I'd be hugely surprised if we see it in 2010.

As far as Rothfuss, from what I understand, he has turned in his manuscript for the second book. It is in the editing process now. And he has a rough draft written for the third. I assume he'll wait until #2 is completely edited before making revisions/rewrites on that. Was probably a good time to be able to focus on his new baby. That's something he should enjoy now. He can write later, but the first few months with that baby can't be replaced.

Here's my take on this (and I should preface this by saying that I loved A Game of Thrones and pre-ordered the next few books from the UK so I could get them before the US editions).

I think GRRM is allowed to take as long as he wants to complete his series. I read Neil Gaiman's famous "George RR Martin is not your b*tch" blog post, and I completely agree with him. Yes, it annoys me that GRRM has somehow managed to finish work on 3 Wild Cards collections and manages to write a full weekly recap of every Giants and Jets NFL game. Yes, I still find it hard to believe that after finishing "A Feast for Crows", he actually said that the next book was 90% written (because the two books started out as one big novel that ended up having to be split in two). When I met him at a signing (after chatting about the NFL for a few minutes, to the annoyance of the fans lined up behind me), he actually said that he expected to be back in about 9 months with the next book. That's more than 4 years ago now!

But yes, he's allowed to take as long as he wants. Similarly, I'm allowed to just ignore the rest of the series until he completes the damn thing. I am not shelling out another $30 for a hardcover by this author until he finishes this series. Maybe a paperback, or maybe the library, and definitely not until he has wrapped up the series. I'm all about "voting with my wallet", and as much as I want to find out where the story goes, I am sufficiently annoyed to stop buying these books until there's an end in sight.

Rothfuss - completely different story, I think. Yes, he's taking much longer than expected, but he's a first-time author, much less experienced (so I'm willing to cut him some slack, as opposed to GRRM who has been in the business long enough to know better). Also, at least Rothfuss is focusing most of his attention on The Wise Man's Fear.

I think it's also much easier to forgive a new author with a year or two delay on a single book. As opposed to one that has kept us on the edge of our seats for a full decade now since the last great book in this series. The last one was little more than a teaser for a second part that has yet to see the light of day.

I have loved Martin's books so far, but count me as another one who is going to wait for the entire series to be finished before I buy another one. It's already been long enough that I'd need to re-read the first four in order to remember what's going on - and that's such a huge undertaking that at this point I just want to wait until I can read it all in one marathon swoop!

I also am excited for The Republic of Thieves and Iorich, but I'll be waiting for paperbacks.

I'm not fussed about either Martin or Rothfuss. I've never read Martin and I tried twice to read The Name of the Wind and failed both time - I could see it was a good book, but it just wasn't for me.

But on in a completely different vein, I've just finished YA, The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness and now one of my anticipated reads for 2010 is the third book in the series, Monsters of Men. Note that I haven't read the second book yet, that's still on hold at the library, but I was so captivated by this one (and I hear the second has a major cliffhanger ending) that I'm already hanging out for the third book and the end of the story.

I forgot Monsters of Men was coming out! Best YA series I read in 2009.

Thanks for the reminder!

I'm also looking forward to the Ness and most of the others mentioned plus the new Joe Hill, Sam Sykes, Sarah Pinborough, Chris Wooding, Jonathan Maberry, M.D. Lachlan, Justin Cronin and way too many more.

I have no idea what's coming out this year. I believe Jack McDevitt's finishing up a new one called Echo, so that'll definitely be my most anticipated of the year.

Beyond that, I still have to see what's coming out. I don't think I'll be in the mood for fantasy this year.

Edit: picked up Joe Haldeman's Starbound today; didn't know until a couple days ago that it was even coming out. that definitely would have been one of my anticipated books.

Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay

Mike wrote: "I have no idea what's coming out this year. I believe Jack McDevitt's finishing up a new one called Echo, so that'll definitely be my most anticipated of the year..."

Yup, I'm a McDevitt fan. He's an author I spend money on.

The only one that comes to mind is the next WoT novel. If Ruthfuss get's A Wise Man's Fears published, I'll read it. Other than that, I'm clueless as to what's forthcoming.

Oh, I forgot about Under Heaven! That, I'll probably get in hardcover. Kay is one of my absolute favorites and I'm really excited about this one!

Since I'm strictly a paperback kinda gal, these are the books I'm anticipating - most of which having been out in hardcover for a bit now:

Kids and YA:
The Siege of Macindaw by John Flanagan - Book 6 of the 'Ranger's Apprentice' series (one of my favorites)
Fragile Eternity by Melissa Marr - Book 3 of 'Wicked Lovely' series
Superior Saturday by Garth Nix - Book 6 in 'Keys to the Kingdom'
Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary by Brandon Mull - Book 4 of 'Fablehaven'

All growed up:
Changeless by Gail Carriger - Book 2 of the 'Parasol Protectorate'
Drood by Dan Simmons
The Warded Man by Peter V. Brett - apparently the debut of a new series
God of Clocks by Alan Campbell - third and, hopefully, final of the 'Deepgate Codex'

Comics:
The Great Fables Crossover by Bill Willingham
House of Mystery Vol. 3: The Space Between by Matthew Sturges


To the issue of series - the way I look at it is that the author is, of course, allowed to take as much time as he or she would like or needs; however, this does not preclude the fact that fans are also allowed to get irritated and gripe about it. Of course I think sending nasty and/or threatening letters is a bit much, but, then, I'm sane - generally speaking.

But I would like to add my own gripe, being as I am a paperback girl. I know that the length between hardcover and paperback is fluid, with, I think, 6 months to a year being the average. However, I have noticed a trend, particularly, it seems, amongst the kid and young adult books, that this time is growing longer and longer. The hardcover version of 'Superior Saturday', for instance, was released on July 31, 2008 and the paperback is coming out January 31, 2010. That's a year and a half. It is, at least, coming out before the hardcover of the next book, which is coming out March of this year.

There was another series I used to read, Pendragon, in which the hardcover of the next in the series was coming out months before the paperback of the previous book was released.

Anyway, a year and a half almost seems to be the new norm. Yes, of course, you could say I do it to myself - I could become a library girl instead of just waiting, but, alas, some habits die hard.

And while publishers are also allowed to use their own timelines and do what they want, I am also allowed to gripe about it and to lose interest in a series entirely because of their annoying publishing issues.

But all is not lost, for there is . (And this little point of advice was actually the point of my starting to post the above diatribe. How I do go off on tangents - especially when desperately not wanting to work.)

Wikipedia, and resources like it, are excellent companions to readers who have waited and waited, and who now forgot much of what has gone on, but don't want to have to reread the previous novels, either out of time constraints or simply lack of interest. Many popular and current books have articles devoted to them, with lovely little character synopsis and plot summaries. This is also quite useful for that book which just isn't holding your interest, but you do want to know what happens.

Essentially, it's like cliff notes, but free and without all the bothersome academia. ;)

That's a nice point about Wikipedia, blackrose. I use it fairly often to get caught up on a series.

Incidentally, their entries on GRRM and Wheel of Time are very good. On some books and authors, not as much. But for the big series, it's great to have.

Thanks for the pointer about using Wikipedia... I have to admit I never would have thought of that. With Dune, I wanted to remember all the details so I reread the original series before reading all the prequels. I will probably just go for a quick synopsis when I start the newer sequels, so Wikipedia might be good for that. As for GRRM and Wheel of Time, I have yet to start those series, although I've been faithfully collecting the books over all these years. When/if they are finished, I will savor them.

Can't wait for Mieville's new novel coming out, i think, in May called Kraken and also Stephen Hunt's 4rth novel in a loosely connected series called Secrets of the Fire Sea and also, of course, Gene Wolfe's new novel ( which lucky ass Stefan has already read-so jealous-lol)

Hmm What books am I waiting for

The Towers of Midnight by Jordan and Sanderson
Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay
City of Night by Michelle West
Watch by Robert J. Sawyer

As for the Martin thing, I agree with Sefan. The guy said he had pretty much wrote the 5th book, yet its been years. I only remembered there was a book in the wind when I was looking for another book and came across Feast. I went online and his last update was 2008, 2 years ago, 2 years ago and nothing. If he has written himself into a corner, at least let us know. I havent even read Feast. I am just going to wait till he is done before I read anything else cause this is ridiculous.

Well, I've been diagnosed with late stage lung cancer at 57, so I have very little time to wait for GRRM to get his act together. From my point of view, he's behaving like a prima donna and not showing the discipline that makes an author great. Of course, I would offer to trade places with any of you who think I'm being too hard on him, but I doubt you'd want to have just a year, which is the average lifespan, for those in my position. Lung cancer is the most common form of cancer and kills 160,000+ a year, more than breast, prostate, and colon cancer combined. And it's not just smokers that come down with it these days.

I do plan to haunt Martin after my death, however. That is only written half in jest

Reginac1.....sorry about your situation. I have wondered about that, what would I read if I were in your shoes? Be choosy, for sure.