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One became three

Christian Kullander — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 06:19:51 +0000

As written earlier I’m really looking forward to the next Wheel of Time book that was supposed to be released later this year. Now Tor has announced it and I’m on the fence; should I be angry or annoyed like I guess a lot of people will be or should I be happy that we’re actually getting 3 three books over 2 years instead? My initial thought was leaning towards being quite annoyed, but after reading Brandon Sanderson’s blog post about how the decision came to be I’m now feeling that I should be happy and probably will be. But a lot of people, including me, could have told them that it would be impossible to wrap up most of the plot threads in one volume, Jordan started way too many of them for that.

“The Dreaming Void” has arrived

Christian Kullander — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:45:02 +0000

Peter F Hamilton’s latest beast of a book has arrived. After a quick dinner I’ll sink my teeth into it and I will most probably keep reading way past bedtime. The first book in the trilogy was great so I have high hopes for this installment even though it seems that Ozzie won’t be in this one either. Will post a review when I’m done!

Excerpt from Alastair Reynolds “House of Suns”

Christian Kullander — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 18:30:08 +0000

Alastair Reynolds has posted an excerpt from this upcoming book House of Suns on his site here. Read it now and if you haven’t read his other books you have been missing out on some great Science Fiction!

Science Fiction blogs

Christian Kullander — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:04:40 +0000

There are quite a few blogs out there related to Science Fiction. These are the ones from my ’scifi authors’ folder in Google Reader (use it, it’s great)

Alastair Reynolds
Charles Stross
George R R Martin, a bit too much American football there though so also read “A Song of Ice and Fire Update” and make sure to check out the sample chapter from the coming book.
William Gibson
John Scalzi
Peter F Hamilton
Walter Jon Williams

And from the ’scfifi’ folder:

io9 (way too many posts to keep up with unfortunately)
Sci-Fi Heaven.net
SF Signal

And here are some other blogs/news sites that I check semi-regularly:

Upcoming books from John Scalzi

Christian Kullander — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 18:06:56 +0000

John Scalzi has also written a blog post on his upcoming publications for 2008.

A month or two ago I devoured Old Man’s War and The Ghost Brigades. If you haven’t already and you’re at least somewhat into military SF (like I am) make sure to add them to your wish list. I will definitely buy a softcover copy of The Last Colony when it arrives next year!

Upcoming books from Charles Stross

Christian Kullander — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 16:58:28 +0000

Charles Stross has a new post on his blog with details of publications of both new books and paperback editions of earlier books here.

The last books of his I read was the excellent Glasshouse and Accelerando , and I’m looking forward to the upcoming ones! Check out his earlier works as well, for instance Singularity Sky and Iron Sunrise, highly recommended!

Keeping track of publications of paperback editions in general is far from easy considering the difference in both price, format, release dates etc between the UK and US. Some authors books seem to take forever to move from hardcover to softcover, other ones switches so quickly that it might be hard to get hold of the hardcover edition if you don’t keep track. I do tend to by mostly paperbacks since they are easier to store and the lower price also enables me to buy more books than I otherwise could. There are of course exceptions, either books from favorite authors (last one was The Dreaming Void by Peter Hamilton) or hardcover editions on sale.

For people who can read Swedish my favorite resource for information on new books is SF-bokhandeln and I guess there must be similar lists available in English somewhere. I’m afraid I don’t know of any good ones, but that is probably since I haven’t looked hard enough.