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Randomiser wrote:

dreamrider wrote:Darn. Should have realized that, having just read LAMA, and reading the tweets.

I was focused on trying to make it something starting with "Honor", however (even numbered book, #14 - though I don't actually think that David consciously tries to do that.) <grin>

At least that makes it slightly more likely that it will be available for Christmas. (Tor's processing to publish time is slightly longer than Baen, though.)

dreamrider

I would guess he might be finished about the end of June, depending on how long the book is going to be. That seems like it should be enough time for Tor to have it out for Christmas, if they want to. Depends what they think will bring in most money in the pre-Christmas sales rush.

dreamrider wrote:There is another Honorverse series starting up, with an in-universe start date at about the same time (mid-late 1530s), that deals with the early days of the Royal Manticoran Navy, through the career of an officer named Travis Long. The arc is intended to cover his whole career, which happens to coincide with the wormhole-potential fueled expansion of the RMN into a true interstellar force.

Those books are also a collaboration, guided by David and largely written by Timothy Zahn assisted by Tom Pope of Bu9. The first of those is targeted for late this year (2014), I believe. David usually refers to this series as the "Travis Long books", but I also recall speculation that they may come to be known as the "RMN series".

There is a long Travis Long story by Zahn in the anthology Beginnings. Due to the significant events of that story, I will be surprised if it is not incorporated/expanded in the first or second of the Travis Long books.

Jonathan_S wrote:

dreamrider wrote:There is another Honorverse series starting up, with an in-universe start date at about the same time (mid-late 1530s), that deals with the early days of the Royal Manticoran Navy, through the career of an officer named Travis Long. The arc is intended to cover his whole career, which happens to coincide with the wormhole-potential fueled expansion of the RMN into a true interstellar force.

Those books are also a collaboration, guided by David and largely written by Timothy Zahn assisted by Tom Pope of Bu9. The first of those is targeted for late this year (2014), I believe. David usually refers to this series as the "Travis Long books", but I also recall speculation that they may come to be known as the "RMN series".

There is a long Travis Long story by Zahn in the anthology Beginnings. Due to the significant events of that story, I will be surprised if it is not incorporated/expanded in the first or second of the Travis Long books.

And that first Travis Long book had it's eARC released around New Years. (I keep having to remember than even 6 months later it still hasn't actually been published)

I don't think it's a significant spoiler to say that it begins a number of years before the short story you mentioned.

SYED wrote:WIll any of the short stories be buit upon? Sort od like how the treecat waoh serrs was originally a short story, now it is a book seriirs

SYED wrote:WIll any of the short stories be buit upon? Sort od like how the treecat waoh serrs was originally a short story, now it is a book seriirs

Roguevictory wrote:Well unless I'm very badly mistaken the Torch series is a buildup of a short story which led to major changes in the plans for the main series so there is no reason that I see to say it can't happen again.