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AC / RJ for the completist - The "Other" Otherness - 11-15-2010
Paul et al,
I see on Amazon that some the Adversary Cycle is out in trade-format from Tor. I've held off getting/reading any of those til close to the close of RJ's tale to avoid knowing the ending until it's ended. Now that I've got the penultimate in my grubby little mitts, I'd like to snag the AC and read up through Reprisal so I'm ready to dive into Night World after I finish The Dark at the End. I see the following entries on Amazon:
The Keep
The Touch
Reborn
I remember reading Nightworld was being revised to include references to the RJ saga that weren't uncovered until recent years, but don't recall seeing anything on Reprisal. Are both books being revised? If so, will we be seeing a series of AC books by Tor... (ideally with an edition of the most recent version of Rakosh) for the completists out there?
I hope you all can shine a little promising light on this. I could use the ray of sunshine. My best friend and I work 1/3 mile away from the Convention Center in Columbus where FPW was for WFC. He's just one of the multitude I've turned on to the RJ saga (and FPW in general), and work had us so buried at the end of October that I didn't end up getting to go, and I'd been waiting all year for that. Imagine...that close to The Man, and .... denied. Sorry state of affairs.
AC / RJ for the completist - Alvin Fox - 11-15-2010
The Tor trade editions of Reprisal, The Tomb and Nightworld will be available in April 2011, May 2011 and sometime in 2012 respectively.
AC / RJ for the completist - The "Other" Otherness - 11-15-2010
Thanks Alvin... Appreciate the quick response. Just to feed the OCD a bit more...Trades or HC, do we know?
Hope Tor let's him 'fix' the name of the Tomb to its proper...
AC / RJ for the completist - Damin J. Toell - 11-15-2010
The "Other" Otherness Wrote:Thanks Alvin... Appreciate the quick response. Just to feed the OCD a bit more...Trades or HC, do we know?
Hope Tor let's him 'fix' the name of the Tomb to its proper...
These will just be trade paperbacks for now. I'm not sure if hardcovers from Tor are even a possibility at this point; Borderlands may have exclusive rights to hardcover editions of these books for the time being. This is just speculation on my part.
I also think it's all but certain that Tor will use the title THE TOMB. Borderlands used the preferred name because their editions appeal to readers who are already typically well-informed, and customer confusion is probably a minimal concern in that market. On the other hand, Tor is surely aiming for mass-market appeal, and will want to use the title by which the book became popular in the first place. FPW explains this theory in his introduction to the Borderlands edition, and he also mentions that the RAKOSHI title was being used "just this once."
AC / RJ for the completist - fpw - 11-16-2010
What Damin and Matt said. Reprisal is minimally revised to account for new technology, and some of Glaeken's dialogue at the end is shaded to dovetail better with Fatal Error, otherwise it's the same book. As for The Tomb, you do not change the title of a book that's been in print for over a quarter century. Tor is debating whether their Nightworld should be trade pb or hc. We'll see.
AC / RJ for the completist - t4terrific - 11-16-2010
fpw Wrote: Tor is debating whether their Nightworld should be trade pb or hc. We'll see.I'd like to get both. Hardcover would match the RJ trade hardcovers. It would ALMOST complete that set (The Tomb would be missing.). Trade pb would match, and complete the AC set.
Completed sets are very important to collectors.
AC / RJ for the completist - Ken Valentine - 11-17-2010
t4terrific Wrote:I'd like to get both. Hardcover would match the RJ trade hardcovers. It would ALMOST complete that set (The Tomb would be missing.). Trade pb would match, and complete the AC set.I don't necessarily consider myself to be a "completist," but I just took possession of a first edition hard-back copy of WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS -- in perfect condition.
Completed sets are very important to collectors.
So you could say that I hadn't intended to be a completist, but I'm getting there.
Ken V.
AC / RJ for the completist - The "Other" Otherness - 11-17-2010
Appreciate the info, all. I understand the logic behind not changing the title after all this time...wishful thinking I guess, that you'd get the original intended title back. I'll take the book in trade or HC however I can get it. :xd:
AC / RJ for the completist - Bluesman Mike Lindner - 11-17-2010
fpw Wrote:What Damin and Matt said. Reprisal is minimally revised to account for new technology, and some of Glaeken's dialogue at the end is shaded to dovetail better with Fatal Error, otherwise it's the same book. As for The Tomb, you do not change the title of a book that's been in print for over a quarter century. Tor is debating whether their Nightworld should be trade pb or hc. We'll see.
Why not both?:confused:
AC / RJ for the completist - The "Other" Otherness - 11-19-2010
Just a quick note to apologize for creating the extra thread. If I'd taken a few minutes extra to visit "The Works" (which I knew was there
) section I'd have found what I needed. Oy. It's these blasted short lunches at work. Don't the powers-that-be know I need more time to get my FPW fix on?Thanks again for your patience.
Mike