|~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| | D A N I E L K E Y S M O R A N | | D.MORAN8@GENIE.GEIS.COM | |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| | | | *********NEWS RELEASE********* | | | | December 10, 1994 | | | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1). The new Continuing Time novel is called "Players: The AI War." It's set in 2080 and follows Trent the Uncatchable almost exclusively; he's in 90+% of the novel's scenes. It's nearly completed and will be delivered to Bantam shortly. 2. The following novel, according to current plans, will be "Crystal Wind." "Crystal Wind" is the novel that was originally called "Players: Revolution." The novel *after* that is the novel I told a bunch of people would be following "The Last Dancer." This is "Lord November: The Man-Spacething War." LN:TMSW is set in approximately 2680, six hundred years after the Trent/Denice stories. It's a very big novel novel, and the first Continuing Time novel that's really *set* out in the Continuing Time. Its principal characters are Tyrel November, one of Denice Castanaveras' descendants, and Bodhisatva, a Pinkerton Agent who also happens to be a Trentist, a member of the Exodus Church, aka "The Church of His Return." This novel was 70 or 80% done when Bantam, due to their success with "Last Dancer," requested that I do the sequels to TLD next, rather than Lord November. This suited me... 3. In my last news release, about two years ago, I told people that there would be two more Trent novels; there won't be. I'm killing him in "Players: The AI War," for a lot of good reasons -- his death is, well, interesting. Even Trent fans should not be much outraged by it, I hope. 4. Bantam has promised to republish "Emerald Eyes" and "The Long Run" along with "Players: The AI War." ("The Last Dancer" is still in print, and doing quite well.) 5. For a while I was selling copies of "The Long Run" screenplay. I've pretty much ceased doing that; but I am making copies of the screenplay available online. Several people have volunteered to handle this; I'll let you know what's happening with it as soon as I have more info. 6. Several different groups were negotiating, at one point, with Bantam over adaptation rights to "The Long Run." Nothing ever came of any of it; people at R. Talsorian Games, for example, told me that Bantam never returned their calls, which I find believable. 7. After I turn in "Players: The AI War," I will no longer be under contract to Bantam. With my new contract I thoroughly expect to make enough money to do this for a living -- which should speed things up a lot. The following are THE TALES OF THE CONTINUING TIME: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DATE: ----- VOLUME ONE: "IN THE BEGINNING..." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Starcloud...................Previous Cycle of the Wheel Spacethings..............................7 Billion B.C. The Revolt of the Living...............4.5 Billion B.C. The Time Wars..........................3.5 Billion B.C. The Continuing Time.........................62,000 B.C. The Last Dancer: The Dancer.......48,000 to 35,000 B.C. The Painsharing of Ifahad....................5,800 B.C. The Lord in His Castle..................540 to 589 A.D. Remembrance........................................1963 Driving in the Dark................................1982 "Emerald Eyes: The Ancestors"......................2030 The Shepherds......................................2049 "Emerald Eyes".....................................2062 Faster than the .............................2063 "The Long Run".............................2069 to 2070 o The Last Summer of His Youth o The Long Run o The Wall "The Last Dancer: Spring 2072"....................2072 "Bordered in Blue".................................2072 o Sea Songs o Death Songs The Mechanism of Desire............................2074 "The Last Dancer"..........................2075 to 2076 o Summer: 2075 o Spring: 2076 o Back to the Beginning: Dvan's Story o The TriCentennial Summer o The Last Dancer VOLUME TWO: ON THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Players: The AI War"......................2078 to 2080 o Trent the Uncatchable and the Temple of 'toons o The Big Boost o Live Fast and Never Die o The Lay of the Rose o The AI War Moving.............................................2082 "Walk Against the Wind"....................2087 to 2090 "The Last Detective".......................2090 to 2091 o Master of the Fucking Obvious o Deathjokes, Part One o Catch Me If You Can "Crystal Wind".............................2090 to 2100 o Deserts of Glass o Crystal Wind The Voyage of the Dauntless.................2100 to 2102 VOLUME THREE: THE WAR WITH THE SLEEM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "A Song as Yet Unsung".....................2111 to 2119 "A Tale as Yet Untold".....................2121 to 2139 "Legend"...................................2145 to 2149 VOLUME FOUR: THE EXODUS FROM EARTH ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Corridor of Dawn...............................2290 "The House of November"....................2291 to 2294 o Ares o Sondra o Richard: the First Lord of November o Lorn The Lords of Shadow................................2309 The Left Handed Hunter.............................2341 "Kinderjim on Earth"...............................2347 "The Serendip, the Starclouds, and the Scout".....................2349 to 2361 o Discovery o Looking for Home "Domain"...................................2382 to 2389 o Homecoming Day o The Domain of Kinderjim o Domain "The Always Rising of the Night"...........2468 to 2501 (Being the true story of Our Lady of Nightways, Ola Blue, who was Lady Blue, who was Leiacan of Eastersea.) Honorable Enemies..................................2614 "Lord November: The Man-Spacething War"............2676 to 2682 The Face of Night..................................2696 VOLUME FIVE: CAMBER'S WAY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Young Camber".............................3000 to 3018 o The Child o The Darkness Has a Name o The Hunted Man "The Winding Way Home".....................3022 to 3030 o The Song of Camber and S'Reeth o The Song of S'Reeth and the Freebooters o The Old Human Race o Mithian the Mercenary o Homecoming Day 3030 "Cities in the Darkness"...................3036 to 3038 o The Traveler o Cities in the Darkness o The Borderland of Night "Camber's Way".....................................3040 VOLUME SIX: THE TIME WARS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Comes A Man"..............................3106 to 3107 "In Time of Legend"..........................Irrelevant "All of the Things That You Are".............Irrelevant "In All of Your Brilliance: The Writings of Camber"........3397; Irrelevant VOLUME SEVEN: THE FAILURE OF THE MAP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Platformer"...............................2964 to 3031 Shiva..............................................3042 Chauki November....................................3392 "The Golden People"................................3515 The Return of the Ultimate Webdancer...............4600 The High Servant...................................7822 "Anarchist"................................8864 to 8976 o The Last Lord of November o The Way the World Ends o Anarchist "End of Empire"....................................9082 "Monument: The Day of Its Release"...............10,400 (The Last Tale of the Continuing Time: In which the Chained One, Creator of the Great Wheel of Existence, is released; the Starclouds and the Zaradin return; heroes who died before die again; and the Continuing Time draws to an end.) The Cold Time..............................circa 12,000 Related Works (fictional and otherwise): ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "The Encyclopedia of the Continuing Time" (Non-Fiction) "Tales of Old and New Earth" o Other Times and Other Places o Tales of Old and New Earth "The Way off the Wheel" (In the universal heat death, as the Great Wheel of Existence collapses around them, a group of Heroes searches for the Way off the Wheel.) "The Sheriff of Shokes" THE COLLAPSE OF THE LEVELS: o "Poison is the Wind" o "Winter's End" o "Wild" (A fantasy trilogy unlike you have ever seen before, deeper and more detailed than "The Lord of The Rings." Of course you won't to see it for about twenty years; a trivial enough wait for a classic of this magnitude.) And, Last But Not Least: T R I N I T Y: The Revolt of the Angels ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Earth Angel Sun Magic The Poet of the Apocalypse ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NOTICE: The preceding is copyright 1994 by Daniel Keys Moran. It may be disseminated freely so long as the information contained herein is not altered in any way. The author can be reached at D.MORAN8@GENIE.GEIS.COM