Charybdis wrote:While I join my fellow fans in urging MWW to post us a tantalizing tidbit to feed our addiction, I am realizing a fact that requires some research. This thread now has 28 pages and I am curious if there is someone who can find the thread with the most pages. It will be interesting to see how many pages this will grow to as we creeeeeeep to September!
Since we get about two snippets each month and the book comes out in about six months (I don't expect a snippet just before the book is published in September) I'd be surprised if we get more than a dozen more before the publication date. They're longer than the snippets we used to get when RFC gave Drak a copy of each book and had him post a few paragraphs three times per week.
RFC likes posting the snippets himself now - I suspect he enjoys our comments on each of them, which grow to several pages. Back when those would have been placed in the "Snippets" forum we didn't have threads for each snippet as long and in-depth as we do now. In fact, I read them on Eric Flint's site, where Drak posted them either just before or just after posting them here. It had a lively discussion group (which was lacking here) and I made hundreds of comments there, and I wish they counted
here, since I'd be an
admiral by now! Bleek! I have a different alias there, but those who came to expect my characteristic "Bleek!" at the end of every comment I made know who I am. BTW, the comments on that site are almost dead now, and for some reason RFC's snippets aren't being posted there. I realize that Drak only posts upcoming Baen books there, but??
I'm sure many or most of us have switched to reading RFC's snippets over here based on the increase in both comments and the threads the snippets inspire. (Plus I recognize a lot of you from there.) So posting the snippets in the Forum they pertain to is accomplishing what RFC hoped - more reading and commenting on them
here rather than other sites, but I do miss those from the old crowd who didn't make the journey with us.
If you'd like to check out Eric Flint's site, where more than RFC's novels are snippeted, here's the link:
http://www.ericflint.net/index.php/category/snippets/If you'd like to read snippets from Baen's upcoming releases (as well as RFC's Safehold snippets) in book form, I HIGHLY recommend the fifthimperium site - plus it has links to all the Pearls of Weber, including the Safehold infodumps at the bottom of the main page! The link to the site is:
http://jiltanith.thefifthimperium.com/site/home/-The site is extremely easy to use and a number of Baen's best authors have their books snippeted there, so it's worth checking out.
Speaking of Baen's
best author, in case you don't know, RFC has a new Bahzell book coming out in August called "The Sword of the South." He's releasing the snippets himself. (Drak, are you going
nuts from losing your posting job to RFC and not being able to tantalize us with details you know but we're just guessing about - and quite badly?)
Anyway, check out the "War God" forum, where the snippets are indexed just like they are here. (fallsfromtrees, you're doing a great job indexing the snippets for us, and I'd like to thank you!) The fifthimperium site has them all in book form of course if you'd like to catch up quickly.
At the moment there are only snippets for the first two chapters and the prologue, but the publication date is apparently in August! If that's true, we'll get a
serious Weber fix at the end of the summer!
Of course for those of us who can't wait that long, (and I never can!) since Baen is the publisher, there should be an eARC of the book coming out soon. That means I won't be posting in the War God forum for long, since I can't resist buying the eARCs, and once you've read the book, there's no need to conjecture what might happen. Plus it's best not to comment since you don't want to inadvertently give away a spoiler. (Unlike the reviewer of LaMA on Amazon!) We were NOT happy about that...
