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When does the story continue?
Post by Hans   » Sat Sep 03, 2016 6:06 am

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Hello,

because SoV does just fill gaps and develops the story just marginally further, when is the next book expected?
Is there a time line by David how it goes on.
I'm quite sure i have read something here, but i can't find it.

Ciao Hans
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Re: When does the story continue?
Post by JohnRoth   » Sat Sep 03, 2016 7:10 am

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Hans wrote:Hello,

because SoV does just fill gaps and develops the story just marginally further, when is the next book expected?
Is there a time line by David how it goes on.
I'm quite sure i have read something here, but i can't find it.

Ciao Hans


The next book, which will be the last book, in the series is targeted at April 2018, the 25th anniversary of the publication of On Basilisk Station.
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Re: When does the story continue?
Post by ChronicRder   » Sat Sep 03, 2016 9:08 am

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JohnRoth wrote:
Hans wrote:Hello,

because SoV does just fill gaps and develops the story just marginally further, when is the next book expected?
Is there a time line by David how it goes on.
I'm quite sure i have read something here, but i can't find it.

Ciao Hans


The next book, which will be the last book, in the series is targeted at April 2018, the 25th anniversary of the publication of On Basilisk Station.


Hans, that's been my question too.

JohnRoth, that's going to be to be a monster of a book to be able to conduct and conclude the full war against the SL. I mean Bible or larger in terms of pages, without glosseries and whatnot at the end. Or maps. O my gods, we need more updated maps!!
The 1st Havenite-Manticore War spanned over several books. The SL, as stated many times on here elsewhere, is significantly larger and has its own quirks that would make that war last several more books still.
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Re: When does the story continue?
Post by George J. Smith   » Sat Sep 03, 2016 9:09 am

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JohnRoth wrote:
Hans wrote:Hello,

because SoV does just fill gaps and develops the story just marginally further, when is the next book expected?
Is there a time line by David how it goes on.
I'm quite sure i have read something here, but i can't find it.

Ciao Hans


The next book, which will be the last book, in the series is targeted at April 2018, the 25th anniversary of the publication of On Basilisk Station.



Getting on a bit so I hope I'm still around by then :lol:
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Re: When does the story continue?
Post by martin   » Sat Sep 03, 2016 10:29 am

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Ciao Hans[/quote]

The next book, which will be the last book, in the series is targeted at April 2018, the 25th anniversary of the publication of On Basilisk Station.[/quote]

Hans, that's been my question too.

JohnRoth, that's going to be to be a monster of a book to be able to conduct and conclude the full war against the SL. I mean Bible or larger in terms of pages, without glosseries and whatnot at the end. Or maps. O my gods, we need more updated maps!!
The 1st Havenite-Manticore War spanned over several books. The SL, as stated many times on here elsewhere, is significantly larger and has its own quirks that would make that war last several more books still.[/quote]

And it's really 2 wars. One against the SLN and another against the MA. That surely can't be just one book.
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Re: When does the story continue?
Post by JohnRoth   » Sat Sep 03, 2016 1:54 pm

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Hans wrote:Hello,

because SoV does just fill gaps and develops the story just marginally further, when is the next book expected?
Is there a time line by David how it goes on.
I'm quite sure i have read something here, but i can't find it.

Ciao Hans


JohnRoth wrote:
The next book, which will be the last book, in the series is targeted at April 2018, the 25th anniversary of the publication of On Basilisk Station.


ChronicRder wrote:Hans, that's been my question too.

JohnRoth, that's going to be to be a monster of a book to be able to conduct and conclude the full war against the SL. I mean Bible or larger in terms of pages, without glosseries and whatnot at the end. Or maps. O my gods, we need more updated maps!!
The 1st Havenite-Manticore War spanned over several books. The SL, as stated many times on here elsewhere, is significantly larger and has its own quirks that would make that war last several more books still.


Himself has said he's not going to tie up all the loose ends. There will almost certainly be some follow-ons, but he's said that he's not considering another three-dozen book series. :)

Think of it this way: if there's a follow-on series, who's going to be the Big Bad if the MAlign is utterly, finally, completely, totally, thoroughly and irrevocably destroyed? He'd have to invent another Big Bad. I hereby nominate the Rubber Chickens from Andromeda (Ta Boom).
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Re: When does the story continue?
Post by Star Knight   » Sat Sep 03, 2016 1:59 pm

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You dont need to have a big bad to write engaging stories. RFC already did this in WoH and AAC
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Re: When does the story continue?
Post by noblehunter   » Sat Sep 03, 2016 3:02 pm

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martin wrote:And it's really 2 wars. One against the SLN and another against the MA. That surely can't be just one book.

The war against the SL will be short. It isn't resilient enough to survive the current crisis, not with MA setting fires where ever it can. Especially not with the Mandarins doing the wrong thing at every turn. Once the rest of the Core realizes that the Mandarins would send Battle Fleet against them just as readily as Beowulf, it'll come apart as fast as planets can ask for GA protection from the tyrannical Old Chicago.
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Re: When does the story continue?
Post by JohnRoth   » Sat Sep 03, 2016 3:33 pm

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Star Knight wrote:You dont need to have a big bad to write engaging stories. RFC already did this in WoH and AAC


Single stories, yes. If you're going to do a series, though, you've got to have a continuing menace lurking in the background, or else you're just doing either an extended biography (Horatio Hornblower, the early Honorverse books) or disconnected stories with the same setting and characters (Tarzan, Sherlock Holmes, Nancy Drew, Star Trek). Not to say any of these are bad, but they're not the same as the Honorverse, Game of Thrones, Wheel of Time, Lord of the Rings or the Ring cycle.
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Re: When does the story continue?
Post by George J. Smith   » Sat Sep 03, 2016 4:28 pm

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I'm looking forward to the final book just to see where rfc takes us, but it will be so hard knowing there will be nothing else. :cry:

Can I suggest, when/if he has time, that he gives us the odd short (or not so short :D )story now and then to gradually wean us off our addiction to the Honorverse.

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I wouldn't mind the odd short story while we are awaiting the fateful day either. :D
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