Liaden Universe(R) InfoDump Number 56

[rolanni]

Procrastinators take note!

Less than a week remains to pre-order Allies: Adventures in the Liaden Universe(R) Number 12.

Allies consists of two stories of Clan Korval. The Miri Robertson story, "Fighting Chance," which led off Tanya Huff and Alexander Potter's Women of War anthology in 2005 shows a young Miri on Surebleak. The other story, "Prodigal Son", which is original to this chapbook, shows Val Con returning to Vandar, the scene of much action early in the Agent of Change sequence, where things set in motion during his first visit are coming to a very dangerous conclusion.

SNIPPETS of the two stories included in Allies are now available for perusal. "Fighting Chance" can be found here while "Prodigal Son" may be read here.

Signed copies of Allies may be pre-ordered until November 17, 2006, and will ship the week of November 19, 2006. For more information and to pre-order, visit the SRM Publisher catalog page.

Allies will ship in date-received order -- don't be the last on your block to have one!

Give the gift of books this season

In addition to Lee and Miller's stories of the Liaden Universe(R), SRM Publisher offers books to satisfy a wide range of tastes. Got a mystery buff on the list? Beguile them with Barnburner and Gunshy by Sharon Lee. Need humorous science fiction? Try Lawrence M. Schoen's Buffalogic and Buffalogenesis. For fantasy readers, give Ru Emerson's This Magic World a spin. Got a hardcore space adventure buff to shop for? Take a look at Mark Tiedemann's Secant novels, or sample the chapbook, Other Worlds. Dark fantasy aficionado? Give autographed set The Summer Country and The Winter Oak by James A. Hetley.

While you're on the site, remember to check out the Genre Shop.

Publication dates, in German!

Heyne Verlag has announced publication dates for the German language editions of the first three books in the Liaden Universe(R) series:
Conflict of Honors /May 2007
Agent of Change /July 2007
Carpe Diem /October 2007

Where the authors are

Sharon Lee and Steve Miller will be attending Boskone, February 16-18 at the Westin Waterfront (note new venue) in Boston. They are also planning to attend NASFiC, August 2-5 in Collinsville, Illinois.

Second Life news

For those Second Lifers among us, there is a Move Afoot to create an island for the uses of the Friends of Liad. If you're interested IM Shawna Montgomery in-world.


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Comments

[klingonguy.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the plug, but, um, it's Buffalogic, Inc.

C'mon, Conroy paid good money for those incorporation papers.

[orlacarey.livejournal.com]

Yay - payday means the chapbook is ordered. :)

[filkferengi]

On the catalog page, "Allies" doesn't have an "add to your cart" link. I'd like to order it, along with a couple of other things, but would rather not pay two shipping charges for what is one order.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

On the catalog page, "Allies" doesn't have an "add to your cart" link.

Yup. The pre-orders are a Separate Thing. This is so the authors can avoid the Nightmare of having five thousand people ask us to "hold their order" until the new chapbook ships. We do learn from our mistakes.

I'd like to order it, along with a couple of other things, but would rather not pay two shipping charges for what is one order.

What you want to do, then, is wait until _Allies_ goes off of pre-order -- which will be Monday, when Steve takes the book to the printer. At that point, you'll be able to add it to your cart just like every other chapbook. I will note, however, that only pre-orders are signed.

Hope that helps.

[filkferengi]

Yes, it does. Thank you very much for the prompt reply and the detailed explanation. [starts anticipating Monday.]