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Posted by trip9 (Member # 8498) on :

I've just finished the third book in the Alvin series and am having rather mixed emotions. I'm extremely happy to be reading such an awesome tale but at the same time I'm extremely sad that after finishing the Alvin series I would have read all the current OSC sagas. I'm wondering if anyone knows whether he's planning a new series (as in an entirely new world), or if i'm extremely lucky, if The Man himself could enlighten me. Oooh if he is I hope it's in a fantasy setting. Thanks again.

Oh yeah, what is the plural for of series?

Posted by Orson Scott Card (Member # 209) on :

Yes, there will be a new series.

Here's a hint: Read my short story "Sandmagic." That story took place in a world that I created in a massive way - maps for a thousand years of its history, a magic system that I think is very productive (in fact, Shannon Hale's Goose Girl/Enna Burning magic system is similar, but mine came first, so I have no qualms about continuing). If you want to see the maps, they're in "Cardography," but that's rare and expensive ... Maybe I'll put them up online ...

Sandmagic is NOT, however, a part of the actual series - that is, the Big Book Fantasy Series will take place hundreds of years before that story.

None of this has been written. It's not even under contract with anybody. It's just ... stewing. Literally. You can smell it all over the house, very spicy and meaty, makes you hungry just to walk in the door, only nobody can taste it yet.

Bits of it will probably show up in the Intergalactic Medicine Show (any day now issue 1 will appear).

Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :

Yay!

Any word on what's coming out when?

Posted by Superprime (Member # 8555) on :

Woohoo! Guess I'd better finish up the Homecoming series then...

Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :

If George R R Martin weren't enough to bring me back into the fantasy fold, a Big Book Fantasy Series by OSC will cinch the deal.

Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :

New series! Huzzah!!

Posted by Orson Scott Card (Member # 209) on :

No whens. Nothing's under contract on this. And since I have a boatload of contracts as yet unfulfilled, perhaps this announcement is premature <grin>.

Posted by 0range7Penguin (Member # 7337) on :

We forgive you. Im only 19 so I have lots of years to be patient. :-)

Posted by Oliver Dale (Member # 8398) on :

quote:
Originally posted by 0range7Penguin:
We forgive you. Im only 19 so I have lots of years to be patient. :-)

Speak for yourself. I'm already 23. Time is a ticking.

Posted by Lord Jono (Member # 8575) on :

/me cues Time by Pink Floyd.

Posted by trip9 (Member # 8498) on :

Thanks for letting me know, now i have something major to look forward to. And nobody told me the plural of series yet.

Posted by Nell Gwyn (Member # 8291) on :

The word "series" is like "species" or "sheep" - it's both singular and plural. So if you were considering it, "serieses" is not the right word. [Wink]

Posted by Nell Gwyn (Member # 8291) on :

And YAY for an eventual far-distant-future new fantasy series!!
[The Wave]

(Although I fervently hope that it will be published before I turn 50 - I'm 24 now. [Wink]

)

Posted by calaban (Member # 2516) on :

mmmmmm Meaty Stew. I love that story. [Cool]

Posted by 0range7Penguin (Member # 7337) on :

quote:
mmmmmm Meaty Stew. I love that story.

-Originally posted by calaban.

What? [Confused]

Posted by RunningBear (Member # 8477) on :

MWAHAHAHAHA I am 17 so I have plenty of time.

But...

I'm not patient enough so I... Need... New... Book...

Posted by ShadowPuppet (Member # 8239) on :

new series...

*twitches*

Posted by Orson Scott Card (Member # 209) on :

Nell, when you turn fifty, I'll be turning eighty. It better be done by then, because the way my memory is going, I won't be able to get to the end of a sentence without forgetting the beginning.

Of course the plural of series is series. The mistake everyone makes is forgetting that the singular of series is "seris." Do you not know your Greek?

Posted by Stephan (Member # 7549) on :

We need to find an old woman who is dying to send Card a letter pleading for it. Supposedly it worked on King.

Posted by 0range7Penguin (Member # 7337) on :

I can claim to be an old dying woman.... <shrug>

Posted by trance (Member # 6623) on :

I could personally care less about the new fantasy series. There has only been two fantasy books that I've ever liked and I never even finished reading them. One of these was "the redemtion of althalas" by eddings. I even forget what the other one was called. (that bad....) I'm more into the futuristic books like "altered carbon" and is why I'm waiting for the next enderverse book. Anyone know whether its the mazer book or the new ender book or the "shadow's in flight" book thats supposed to come next?

Posted by trip9 (Member # 8498) on :

I thought the plural was series but when I looked at it something seemed wrong, but that tends to happen to me if i look at a word to long, it tends to look wrong.

Posted by Nell Gwyn (Member # 8291) on :

The same thing happens to me sometimes - usually with something totally normal and commonplace, like "table".

Maybe when that happens my mind is making me semi-conciously aware that those letters are just representatives and mean nothing in and of themselves, and this strangeness conflicts with my accepted knowledge of reality, so it confuses me? There's probably a very long, very technical, psychological/philosophical explanation for this phenomenon. [Dont Know]

Posted by human_2.0 (Member # 6006) on :

quote:
"Cardography," but that's rare and expensive

Ooo... sounds like something I should try to buy! $34 from Amazon...

quote:
You can smell it all over the house, very spicy and meaty, makes you hungry just to walk in the door, only nobody can taste it yet.

Now I'm hungry! [Big Grin]

quote:
Bits of it will probably show up in the Intergalactic Medicine Show (any day now issue 1 will appear).

Hmmmm.... Interesting (I googled it). Is this your soon to be publishing magazine?

Posted by RunningBear (Member # 8477) on :

whazzah? what is that?

Posted by CRash (Member # 7754) on :

See this thread for more information on the magazine.

Posted by Treason (Member # 7587) on :

"We need to find an old woman who is dying to send Card a letter pleading for it. Supposedly it worked on King."

That's not what worked on King! Orson really does not want what worked on King!!
(It was him almost being killed by a speeding van)

Posted by RunningBear (Member # 8477) on :

Soooooo..... we need to hire someone to almost kill him by driving erratically. hmmmm, I dont think he would appreciate the poetic beauty of that. (maybe because there is none...)