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What is RFC doing right now? | |
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by Randomiser » Wed Apr 01, 2015 12:41 pm | |
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Anyone got any info on what RFC is currently working on? SoS is definitely in the can, I would imagine The Road to Hell must be also, by this time. So what's next?
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by Henry Brown » Sat Apr 04, 2015 11:55 pm | |
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In addition to the projects you mention, there is also this *small* series called the "Honorverse." Maybe he is working on the next book for it.
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by Undercover Fat Kid » Sun Apr 05, 2015 9:48 am | |
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Hopefully right this minute he's enjoying some much deserved family time....while I'm here trolling the forum
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by McGuiness » Mon Apr 06, 2015 3:07 am | |
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RFC posted his daily schedule here once - he mostly writes during the night when the kids are asleep. Then he sleeps from morning-ish to afternoon-ish. (Although that might have changed.) This led Drak to point out (although now denies it!) that should RFC log onto this site during the afternoon (Eastern Time) that we should immediately tell him to get some sleep!) When RFC logs on during the night, we simply assume he's taking a well-deserved break from writing to see what new mischief his readers have gotten into... Don't quote me on the exact sequence, but here's what I believe RFC will be working on for the next year or so... We DO know that there's a new Multiverse book coming out in early 2016. (I am so excited!) Apparently RFC's former co-writer Linda Evans is having some fairly serious health problems, so he's writing it with Joelle Presby, who has a couple of Honor Harrington stories to her credit. So it's entirely possible that RFC is working on that collaboration right now, since the publication date is less than a year away. To see the cover art for the next novel, look here: The Road to Hell - Baen Books - David Weber and Joelle Presby http://www.daveseeley.com/p78742369/h167D3299#h167d3299 As usual the artist doesn't seem to have read the book, since the dragons use breath weapons, but the cover shows the dragon rider with some sort of grav lance or something. (I'm ducking!) The next mainline novel in the HH series is probably due after that, since we've been waiting for the Battle of Beowulf for years now. (Silly me, I was expecting it in the next chapter when I unexpectedly arrived at the last page of ART. I screamed!) After that we'll probably get the Safehold book after HFQ. Probably. How RFC manages to juggle four series is beyond me - or how he has the imagination to have four viable and quite entertaining series at the same time that range from SF, SF& Fantasy, Fantasy, and SF/Historical Fiction (Safehold) is beyond me! I couldn't come up with a plot for a single novel, let alone half a dozen series and several stand-alone novels. Between book releases I guess we'll simply have to wait as fast as we can... "Oh bother", said Pooh as he glanced through the airlock window at the helmet he'd forgotten to wear. |
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Re: What is RFC doing right now? | |
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by Randomiser » Mon Apr 06, 2015 5:47 am | |
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Mostly reasonable speculation McGuiness if tinged with a bit of Honor hopefulness, but I was hoping someone might have actual information or point me to a post I had forgotten.
On Aug 21 over on the Multiverse forum RFC posted.
So unless something has gone very badly wrong, The Road to Hell was finished long ago. (The long delay is due to Baen republishing the other books in the series first.) By rotation the next book would be something from the Honorverse, but it would depend on his contractual obligations and what he feels like doing. Wasn't there talk of another two or three 'House of ... ' books with Bu-Nine at one stage? And what about the YA Treecat series or the Manticore Ascendant series? Not that I actually want to rain on your Mainline HH parade ... |
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by n7axw » Mon Apr 06, 2015 8:13 am | |
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Eh, Peter, nice analysis, buu are you sure you intended to post it here... Don When any group seeks political power in God's name, both religion and politics are instantly corrupted.
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by PeterZ » Mon Apr 06, 2015 5:53 pm | |
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Has this been removed? I don't see it in this thread any longer, Don. No, I did not intend to post it here. |
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Re: What is RFC doing right now? | |
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by jeremyr » Mon Apr 06, 2015 8:20 pm | |
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In one of RFC's recent posts (last couple months), he commented that he may be able to finish this the Safehold series ( thru the defeat of the Gang of 4) in the book he was working on now or that it may require one more book. So, maybe he's working on the sequel to HFQ now.
Sorry, but I don't remember which thread it was in and unfortunately I don't have the time to search for it, or I'd quote it here. |
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by ErrantVenture » Mon Apr 06, 2015 10:00 pm | |
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From http://forums.davidweber.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=6358&start=09 and http://forums.davidweber.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=6358&start=22 it would appear that a solo HH book and a novel for a new fantasy series in the Wargod universe (though this may be done already as he already had 160k words as of last Oct and wanted to have it complete by HonorCon).
My guess would be he's working on a solo HH right now followed by the next Safehold (to get it submitted in time for a Sept 2016 publish date). But those are just WAGs |
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by Randomiser » Tue Apr 07, 2015 4:37 am | |
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Thanks. The new war god novel is Swords of the South publishing August 4th this year. Snippets now appearing in the War God forum about as frequently as HFQ snippets here. So I guess it's the solo HH book! |
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