@mikeg You really don't want to hear me sing!, but all the rest sounds pretty good!
can we volunteer to help edit, cause i still found some oopses after it made it to press in 15. Only 3 of them and in the same paragraph so not major but still
Hey Ryk, Thanks for everything, and keep telling the story your way because that's the way we love it!
Sorry I have started my scouring of the interwebs to find any hint of the next book (mainly because I have vacation in a week and a half and was hoping against hope it would be out for my vacation!!) and saw comments about Escalation that annoyed me. Sure I have misgivings about certain aspects of the story, as I did in previous books, but the thing is that Ryk told them in a way that was new and uniquely his own so that I came to love them. I am leery of cloning because of a lot of bad sci-fi and a general unease with the subject, but I have faith in the man who has told us a breathtaking story over the last few years. I know it will be awesome! So ok off my soapbox, hope the new one comes out in time for my vacation, but if not it will help me get over my post vacation blues!
While we don't have a solid release date yet for Rescue, Tantor.com does have a date for the audiobook version of Escalation: August 23rd.
Ryk,
1) I Love You
2) Can we get an updated timeline on possible release date?
Thanks!
Hi Ryk @rykbrown I have a couple of questions:
1) Could you let us know if you are planning to stick with 2 month release schedule like you said or go 2.5 or 3 Monthly Releases.
2) Did you take any Summer Holilday's? Go anywhere nice?
3) What stage are you at with the books of Part 2
4) What stage are you at with the outline for Parts 3-5?
5) Are you planning any other releases outside what you have outlined to date.
Well, lets see...
1) God, I want to, but I just cannot get myself to regularly write that quickly. I thought that adding a writing assistant to help clean my work up so that I could write faster (and sloppier) would help, but I can't get myself to be sloppy. (I'm working on it.) I still believe I can get to a faster methodology, though. I've been experimenting with writing the scenes as if they are a screenplay, then novelizing them. (I'm a screenwriter at heart.) That seems to work well, and allows me to develop the scene more quickly, as I don't get bogged down with sentence structure and grammar...just the meat and potatoes. I was originally going to hire someone to novelize those screenplay scenes for me, but realized that I cannot hire someone to do that until I am sure about how it should be done, first. Problem is, most software is just not intuitive enough, and is full of features that I will never need. So I'm having someone develop custom software that will allow me to first write the scene in screenplay form, then novelize it by copying the dialog over into the novel so that I don't have to retype it, so I only have to add the action, dialog tags, and other narrative elements. In my own experiments, I've found that even retyping all the dialog it is still faster to write the scene as a screenplay first, then novelize it.
Short Answer: Probably still going to be 3 months for a little longer.
2) Nope. No summer holidays. I have been working on my instrument rating. And we are going to Seattle for our anniversary this month. (I'm also meeting with my Amazon rep while I'm there. Business deduction!)
3) While part 1 was fairly well outlined before I started writing, part 2 is far more open. I know where I want to go, and what kind of feel and adventure I want. But, it's like looking through out-of-focus binoculars. Things come into focus as I write. That's when the details become clear, and things get cool and exciting for me. As for where I'm at, I just finished episode 2, and its in editing for a release in September.
4) Parts 3-5 are similar to part 2 in the sense that I just know the major points of what I want to do. Like I want to take a trip across the country, with my final destination being New York, but I have no idea what route I want to take.
5) I really want to finish the Fall of the Core netcasts, and I want to collaborate with my friend that helped me create the Arrival storyline nearly 2 decades ago and have him write the books that came before Arrival. But time is the problem. Hopefully, after I get this custom software working, and am able to speed up my writing process, I'll have time for other projects.
Also, we are developing a graphic novel of episode 1 of part 1. If it goes well, we'll do the other 14 episodes of part 1 as well.
Ryk
1) I Love You
I feel ignored :p
You just finished episode 2?
I thought there was supposed to be a three episode buffer to help steady release dates?
Yip Time is a fickle beast. never changing and never the same!
Mr. Brown.
I love the series. I hope there will be an email blast when Rescue is released. I can't wait.
Just read the first Netcast novella. Makes a good read while I'm waiting for news from the Pentarus Cluster.
Arrival was excellent. Too bad you couldn't tie in the story somehow.
Looking forward to September.
Graphic novel series! Yes please. I can guarantee I'll buy one. Got a copy of episode one in print form already.
Was there ever any news on the tv/film series for this? There's a big sci-fi adventure gap in the market at the moment.
Gap in the market?
Startrek
The Expanse
Dark Matter
...
Ok fair point
I wouldn't identify it as a gap, so much, as changing tastes coming to the fore. The Expanse is so totally different than the older material such as Star Trek that it appeals to a different group. I liked Star Trek, but the vision of the future was set by what we knew of the universe in 1966... Even the later versions of Trek still carried that vision forward.
Someone from today's world sees a lot more complexity, with different shades of morality and with additional cultural references than someone from 1966. They also have 50 more years of actual science education to add to their worldview. I say that as someone who was born in 1963... I've lived in both ends of the spectrum. The Expanse and some of the others out there now carry THAT vision forward.
Ryk's universe offers some of those shadings of complexity. We seem to crave that level of complexity, based on these forums and the ratings and fan desire for The Expanse and BSG.
