Rip Van Palmer Awakens . . .
Notwithstanding occasional, overly optimistic reports of his demise, and
after 25 years’ absence from the science fiction publishing scene, David
R.
Palmer is pleased to announce that the July/August double issue of Analog
Science Fiction & Fact magazine, which in fact comes out toward the end of
April, will present the first in a three-part serialization of Tracking,
the
long-awaited sequel to his Hugo-, Nebula-, and John
Campbell-award-nominated, and Compton Crook Award-winning novel,
Emergence.
Word has come to eleven-year-old Candidia Smith-Foster, Plucky Girl
Adventurer and Savior of the World (and a Homo post hominem, Homo sapiens'
evolutionary heirs), that her beloved Daddy may in fact still be alive,
though in the hands of the genocidal Khraniteli, who, when last we heard
from them, had in effect wiped the entire H. sapiens species off the face
of
the Earth. In the months since recovering from her most recent fatal
adventure, Candy's spent most of her time training with an ex-Mossad
assassin, so it's probably fair to assume she's not going to take the news
sitting down. . . .
In addition -- Palmer has completed Special Education*, the sequel to
Threshold; as well as Schrödinger's Frisbee, a boy-and-his-dog (-and-girl)
alien abduction story.
(*Don't know if that came through correctly, given raw text/HTML's
limitations. The e in Special should have a long-e diacritical bar above
it, rendering the pronunciation speecial, as in education of a species.
Finally, assuming everything goes as planned, all three of these stories,
along with reissues of the original Emergence and Threshold novels, are
scheduled to be published in both hardcover and paperback by Wormhole
Press,
(wormholepress.com, assuming that gets built on schedule -- hey, what
could
go wrong?), shortly after the final section of the Analog serialization
comes out.
Tell a friend. Tell the friend to tell a friend. Et cetera. It takes
only
20 repetitions of the doubling principle to spread the word to more than a
million of your closest friends. Some may even thank you.
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