"Robert A. Woodward" <robertaw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> In article <UfSdnUhl2f_P-oXVnZ2dnUVZ_q2hnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> "Paul Howard" <ppaulshoward@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> "David DeLaney" <dbd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>> news:slrng1goni.nqn.dbd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> > On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:02:03 +0100, Barb <black.cat@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>> > wrote:
>> >>"In the past I've criticized certain authors for the extreme amounts
of
>> >>bloat present in their books. Most notably David Weber, who
regularly
>> >>padded 350 pages of plot into an 800 page novel...."
>> >
>> > There's also the books where there's a nice thinner book struggling
to
>> > get
>> > out, but it's being smothered by unrelated plot-Velveeta and/or
>> > exposition.
>> > (Goodkind, I'm pointing at YOU.)
>> >
>> >>Having said that, I enjoyed the book and recommend it as a good read
>> >>(perhaps on a long-haul flight?), and there seems to be scope for a
>> >>sequel.
>> >
>> > Scope? There's a whole half-acre of traps that have been set out
>> > carefully
>> > in the early dawn just WAITING to catch the wily sequel, there. This
is
>> > one
>> > of those sequels that's going to have to take extraordinary measures
to
>> > avoid
>> > being written, and will likely end up at least a trilogy. Not that
>> > there's,
>> > you know, anything necessarily WRONG with that.
>> >
>> > Dave
>> > --
>> > \/David DeLaney posting from dbd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"It's not the pot that grows
>> > the
>> > flower
>> > It's not the clock that slows the hour The definition's plain for
>> > anyone
>> > to see
>> > Love is all it takes to make a family" - R&P. VISUALIZE HAPPYNET
>> > VRbeable<BLINK>
>> > http://www.vic.com/~dbd/
- net.legends FAQ & Magic / I WUV you in all
>> > CAPS! --K.
>>
>> The last I heard, there going to be at least three additional books
>> following OAR. David Weber has a Big Story here and he hasn't hidden
the
>> fact that it'll take several books to tell.
>>
>> The sequel to OAR (BY SCHISM RENT ASUNDER) is currently being snippeted
>> on
>> Baen's Bar and at http://www.ericflint.net/
>
> I have heard that he has finished the 3rd title, _By Heresies
> Distressed_.
>
> --
> Robert Woodward <robertaw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> <http://www.drizzle.com/~robertaw>
Yep, but no definite word on when it will be published.
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Paul Howard (Alias Drak Bibliophile)
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