November 2018 Open Post

   November 28, 2018
   November 28, 2018
   John Michael Greer
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   As announced earlier, this blog will host an open space once a month (well,
   more  or  less!) to  field  questions  and  encourage discussion  among  my
   readers, and this is the week. All the standard rules apply - no profanity,
   no sales pitches, no trolling, no rudeness, no long screeds proclaiming the
   infallible truth of fill in the blank - but since there's no topic, nothing
   is off topic.

   Before we go on, though, I have some good news to pass on regarding writing
   projects associated with  this blog. First of all, I'm  delighted to report
   that Vintage Worlds, the anthology of  Old Solar System SF edited by myself
   and Zendexor, is now  available in both print and e-book  formats. If I may
   risk tooting my own  Barsoomian horn a bit, it's a  wowser of a collection,
   seventeen stories celebrating one of the great imaginative creations of our
   age - the  nonexistent but endlessly wonderful solar system  of classic SF,
   full  of  alien beings,  inhabitable  planets,  spaceships that  look  like
   something other  than random assortments of  pipes and tanks, and  two- (or
   more-) fisted adventure. Order your copies here.

   Second, fans  of squamous, rugose  tentacles everywhere will be  pleased to
   know that the second book in  my Lovecraftian epic fantasy series The Weird
   of Hali is finally stirring from its aeonian slumber. The first volume, The
   Weird  of Hali:  Innsmouth,  is  already available  in  e-book format;  the
   paperback  edition will  be out  on December  17 of  this year  and can  be
   preordered here. The  second volume, The Weird of Hali:  Kingsport, will be
   released the same day in both  e-book and paperback formats - the paperback
   can be preordered here.  Those readers who are fairly new  to this blog may
   want to  know that this is  not your common or  garden variety Lovecraftian
   fiction; it's  fantasy, not horror,  and those vast tentacled  critters and
   their human (and not quite human)  cultists...well, let's just say they get
   to tell their side of the story for a change.

   The  third volume  in the  series,  The Weird  of Hali:  Chorazin, will  be
   forthcoming early in the  new year; volumes 4 and 5  are in the publisher's
   hands as  I speak, volume 6  is finished except  for a final edit,  and the
   seventh and last volume is about half done  and will be in print by the end
   of 2019. (Those  readers who are still  waiting for the last  volume of The
   Kingkiller Chronicle or  A Song of Ice and Fire  needn't worry about having
   to put up  with that sort of  nonsense from me.) And before  it ends, Great
   Cthulhu will rise at last from the sea...

   With that said, have at it!