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Post by Doul on Aug 25, 2003 6:04:39 GMT -5
Kramer over at the Wotmania boards attended a Mieville signing in Seattle recently, and posted some juicy tidbits about the Iron Council. There are some spoilers, so don't read if you don't want to know. Enjoy:
SPOILERS
-- Iron Council will be set in New Crobuzon, 20 years after the events of Perdido Street Station.
-- Mieville is a little over half way done writing the book. He will probably turn in the manuscript by the end of 2003, and they're aiming for a May/June 2004 publication date.
-- Iron Council will NOT be the last Bas Lag novel, but after he finishes writing Iron Council, Mieville will write two non-Bas Lag novels before doing the 4th Bas Lag book. Mieville didn't give any information as to what the two non-Bas Lag novels would be about.
-- Mieville read from the 11th Chapter of Iron Council, which takes place about a quarter of the way through the book. Here's a short synopsis of the reading:
The scene takes place in a theatre. A weird play is being performed. Orry is the name of the character’s PoV. It is fairly funny, with a riot starting because of the play promoting “heresy” to events that happened 20 years ago. Apparently Jack-half-a-prayer was killed by a pocked man. The play showed the pocked man actually killing Jack in mercy. Some official stops the play. The crowd riots. Some funny stuff, then the scene ends.
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Post by ezchaos on Aug 25, 2003 7:09:43 GMT -5
This is cool. I was wondering when his next book was coming out.
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Post by Edge on Aug 25, 2003 14:16:59 GMT -5
Looking forward to it.
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Post by Oponn on Aug 25, 2003 14:49:33 GMT -5
He's definatly building up to something big in Bas-Lag.
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Post by Mort on Aug 26, 2003 23:48:08 GMT -5
Sounds good - Can't he hurry it up though?
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Post by Issac on Aug 28, 2003 2:44:29 GMT -5
Hopefully he won't contain his Bas-Lag novels just to New Crobuzon. As interesting as it is, there are so many other places in Bas-Lag I want to see. Nova Esperium, the Shards...
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Post by Wizz on Sept 5, 2003 1:07:06 GMT -5
*Drools*
More please!
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Post by Lemuel on Sept 5, 2003 10:52:53 GMT -5
this sounds all very good:D hopefully lots of mis-interpretations of the events of PSS will ensue;);D
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Post by greyfing on Sept 8, 2003 10:54:44 GMT -5
two other novels before more bas-lag? *groans* im having enough trouble finding books to fill in the gap till iron council let alone, what, a four year chasm. very interested to know what CM is planning.
*twiddlesthumbs with conviction*
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Post by Pale on Sept 8, 2003 15:54:12 GMT -5
greyfing et al. I agree the wait is interminable. But you could always re-read PSS or The Scar. I rarely return to a novel if i have read it recently, but think another look at PSS would be worthwhile. And, is Jack Half a Prayer really dead ? The debate begins...
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Post by Lemuel on Sept 8, 2003 16:06:11 GMT -5
unfortunately, you lie, dear Pale, i cant find my copies of PSS or the Scar anywhere
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Post by Pale on Sept 8, 2003 16:08:36 GMT -5
Oh dear. Perhaps you can purchase Sls ( Douls) 2nd copy of PSS he picked up for 10p at a jumble sale...then dropped it in the bath.
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Post by Cheryl on Sept 8, 2003 16:30:58 GMT -5
While you are waiting you can always while the time away on the new neal Stephenson novel which, according to Gary Wolfe in Locus, is some 3000 pages long and to be published in three parts over the coming year. Being some 70 pages into my review copy of volume 1, I can confidently predict that it is well worth the time required to ingest it.
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Post by Wizz on Sept 9, 2003 13:01:19 GMT -5
I dont understand that...why not make three seperate novels instead of one split into three parts?? Is this done so they can be released quicker?? And how long would each part be...I guess at thrre thousand pages each part would still be pretty damn long eh?
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Post by Cheryl on Sept 9, 2003 14:42:54 GMT -5
I guess it depends what the writer is comfortable with, Wizz. Some writers are very good at telling a long story as several independent tales. Others can manage to make each volume more or less standalone, but are still telling just one story. And there are some who just have to tell one big tale. Stephenson is by no means the only one. Dan Simmons's Illium is very clearly only half a book. Tad Williams and George R.R. Martin do fantasy on a vast scale. Mary Gentle's Ash was clearly a single story for all that the US publishers tried to put it out in four parts.
I don't know yet whether Stephenson is going to end his first two volumes on cliffhangers or try to wrap things up at the end of each one, but I'm pleased to know that there is a publication schedule and that we are not going to have to wait a year or two between volumes.
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