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So sick of it that there's two new books in the series coming out, one this month?

• Tuna-Fish 6y ago
  Welcome to the economics of scifi/fantasy publishing. It's really hard to get people to start reading a book set in an entirely new world, but if you succeed once and they like the book, they are very likely to purchase new books in the same setting. This is why all genre books are parts of trilogies, most of which get abandoned after the first or second book, (because the market just wasn't there, and the publisher just didn't want any more books after a flop), or which get extended well past any desire from the author or good sense simply because people keep purchasing them, the author needs to pay their mortgage and their new books not set in the established universe keep flopping. I think Stross went into this at length at a panel in some con I was in.
• causality0 6y ago
  Did you read them? You really don't think there was a radical change of pace near the end with plot points being instantly resolved all over the place with resolutions that sometimes not only didn't match the buildup but sometimes didn't even seem in keeping with character traits?
  • avar 6y ago
    Yes, and re-read them in the past couple of weeks since the new ones are coming out. It didn't feel out of place to me, sure some story arch's got wrapped up, but others opened up. If this went onto say 9 books like that it would have a pacing similar to The Expanse where every couple of books there's a new "villain" or challenge. I'd much rather have that than something like Expeditionary Force where one storyline seems to be dragging on forever.
    • causality0 6y ago
      where every couple of books there's a new "villain" or challenge. I'd much rather have that Agreed. ExForce has a hell of a deux ex machina at the end of the most recent book as well.