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5. read it on the Panix gopher* (gopher.panix.com; choose the Del Rey
Books directory);
6. read it at the Internet Book Information Center (WWW address:
http://sunsite.unc.edu/ibic/IBIC-homepage.html);*
7. read the current issue in the science-fiction area on BIX;
8. retrieve the current issue from the SF archives at
sflovers.rutgers.edu
*Back issues also available
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WORKS IN PROGRESS: Changes, Additions, Updates
The DRIN lists only the changes to the Works in Progress report. The
entire current report can be found on the Panix gopher (gopher.panix.com)
in the Del Rey Books subdirectory, under Publishing Information.)
TERRY BROOKS' FIRST KING OF SHANNARA, his eighth Shannara novel and
prequel to THE SWORD OF SHANNARA, debuted in hardcover in March and spent
6 weeks on the _New York Times_ bestseller list. The paperback edition
will be released in the spring of 1997. Mr. Brooks is more than halfway
through the first volume of a new, completely original contemporary
fantasy series, which will be published in the fall of 1997. In March of
next year we plan to reissue all the _Shannara_ books.
CHRIS BUNCH is working on THE SEER KING, the first volume of his solo
fantasy trilogy for Warner/Aspect, and will shortly begin work on THE
DARKNESS OF GOD, the final volume of our _Shadow Warrior_ series.
ALLAN COLE has begun work on the second volume of the _Timura Trilogy_,
his brand-new solo fantasy epic for Del Rey.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER has turned in THE HOWLING STONES, his latest Commonwealth
novel, which will be published in February 1997. It's not a Pip & Flinx
novel. In progress for Del Rey is PARALLELITIES (tentative title) which
will be published early in 1998. Foster's novelette "Our Lady of the
Machine" recently won the Ignotus award (the Spanish Hugo) for the best
piece of short SF translated from a foreign language to appear in Spain in
1995.
KATHERINE KURTZ and ROBERT REGINALD are currently making the last changes
to CODEX DERYNIANUS, an A-to-Z guide to the Deryni world. With Deborah
Turner Harris, Katherine has just completed the latest in her Apprentice
Adept series for Ace. And--at long last!--she has begun work on the
Deryni book weve all been waiting for: KING KELSON'S BRIDE, in which Kelson
finally gets the girl (we hope)! Publication: June 1997.
JULIAN MAY is working on the first volume of her _Rampart Worlds Trilogy_,
but our next book from her will be SKY TRILLIUM in January of 1997. After
that will be the paperback of MAGNIFICAT (currently in hardcover from
Knopf) in April of 1997.
ANNE McCAFFREY has completed her latest novel in the _Freedoms Landing_
series for Ace, as well as a collaboration with Margaret Ball on a novel
based on a comic character Anne created: Acorna, Queen of the Unicorns.
Our next book from her will be an as-yet-untitled Pern novel (published
in the UK as RED STAR RISING), in early 1997.
DONALD McQUINN is working on the sequel to his sf military adventure
novel, WITH FULL HONORS (January 1997).
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SIGNING, READINGS, CONVENTION ATTENDANCE BY DEL REY AUTHORS
FRANCINE WOODBURY will be signing SHADE AND SHADOW at the following stores:
July 6: First Edition, Norwich, Connecticut, 12PM.
July 7: Borders, Syracuse, New York, 2PM.
July 9: Brentano's, Cleveland, Ohio, 12PM.
July 9: Barnes and Noble, Cleveland, Ohio, 7PM.
July 12: Prairie Lights, Iowa City, Iowa, 8PM.
July 15: Mediaplay, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 12PM.
July 15: Waldenbooks, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 6PM.
July 19: Waldenbooks, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 5PM.
July 19: Waldenbooks, Austin, Texas, 12PM.
July 22: Barnes and Noble, Bellevus, Washington, 7PM.
July 23: Barnes and Noble, Seattle, Washington, 7PM.
July 25: Future Fantasy Bookstore, Palo Alto, California, 6:30PM.
July 26: Brentano's, San Francisco, California, 6PM.
July 30: Fact & Fiction, Missoula, Montana, 5PM.
STEVE SAFFEL (Del Rey Senior Editor), SHELLY SHAPIRO (Del Rey Executive
Editor), CHRISTINE LEVIS (Del Rey Associate Editor), KUO-YU LIANG (Del Rey
Associate Publisher), and Star Wars author ANDY MANGELS will be attending
ComicCon in San Diego, California, July 1-7.
BARBARA HAMBLY, K.D. WENTWORTH, ALLAN COLE ,and LARRY NIVEN will be
attending CONDIABLO/WESTERCON 49 in El Paso, Texas, July 5-7.
J. GREGORY KEYES and VERONICA CHAPMAN (Del Rey Senior Editor) will be
attending the American Library Association '96 in New York, New York, July
6.
LARRY NIVEN will be signing THE RINGWORLD THRONE at the following stores:
July 13: Dangerous Visions, Sherman Oaks, California, 2-4PM.
July 31: Barnes and Noble, Encino, California, 7:30PM.
TARA K. HARPER will be signing GRAYHEART at a Target grand opening in
Portland, Oregon, July 25th, 11-12PM. Address: 11826 NE Glisan St.
MARK COTTA VAZ will be signing SECRETS OF STAR WARS: SHADOWS OF THE EMPIRE
at Waldenbooks, July 27th, San Leandro, California, 11AM-3PM.
DEL REY NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS===================================
NICOLA GRIFFITH WINS LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD #2!
The Lambda Literary Awards were announced June 15th and Nicola Griffith
has won again. The first time for AMMONITE, now for SLOW RIVER, her
second novel--two for two! Nicola's novella "Yaguara" was a Nebula
finalist this year and has also been excerpted for THE YEAR'S BEST LESBIAN
EROTICA.
The official Nicola Griffith page can be found on the web at
http://www.america.net/~daves/ng/
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DEL REY BOOKS--SATISFACTION GUARANTEED
This month begins our Del Rey Satisfaction Guaranteed program with
GRAYHEART by Tara K. Harper. How it works:
If readers are not satisfied with the book, they can mail it directly back
to Del Rey, and we will send them a replacement book of equal value for
free, no proof-of-purchase necessary.
The "Del Rey Satisfaction Guaranteed" logo will appear on all guaranteed
books, as well as in ads. Inside each guaranteed book will be a letter
from the editor & a coupon with which readers can return the book.
We've been doing this unofficially for years...now we're putting our
official money where our editorial mouth is. Future Guaranteed titles
will be announced here.
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LINGUISTICS AND SCIENCE FICTION NETWORK
Author Suzette Hayden Elgin (NATIVE TONGUE and other really neat SF
novels) publishes a newsletter for anyone interested in science fiction
and linguistics and the conjunction of the two--if you like SF that does
neat stuff with language, this might be for you. Here are the details:
The Linguistics & Science Fiction Network is open to anyone
interested in the linguistics/SF interface. The group's position statement
says that language is our most powerful instrument for bringing about
change, and science fiction is our most powerful instrument for trying out
changes in advance--therefore, the intersection of the two should get our
careful attention. The network's print newsletter (_Linguistics & Science
Fiction_) is sent to members every other month; in the alternate months an
informal L&SF bulletin is sent by e-mail to online members; and the L&SF
staff (Suzette Haden Elgin and George Elgin) are in the preliminary stages
of a project to put two digests (excerpted versions, one for linguistics,
one for SF) of each print issue online as well.
Topics include languages and linguistics in science fiction writing,
cyberspeak and psiberspeak, linguistic relativity, metaphors as perceptual
filters, and the impact of linguistics on SF. L&SF runs 18-20 pages an
issue and has articles, editorials, book reviews, filksongs, a linguistics
comic strip, and more. Memberships are $10 a year U.S., $18 Canadian, $25
other foreign, to Elgin, PO Box 1137, Huntsville AR 72740-1137.
Newsletters and bulletins are included in membership, and the digest
versions will be free. For more information contact ocls@sibylline.com.
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ACCLAIM FOR ANNE McCAFFREY
THE DOLPHINS OF PERN has been selected as one of the ten nominees for the
1997 Evergreen Young Adult Award.
LATEST EXCERPTS ONLINE=============================================
Sample chapters of some of our upcoming and recent (and some of our
favorite, neither upcoming nor recent) books are available online (for
free, of course). This month's books are THE WATERBORN by J. Gregory
Keyes, SLOW RIVER by Nicola Griffith, GRAYHEART by Tara K. Harper, WHEEL
OF DREAMS by Salinda Tyson, and HAMMER AND ANVIL by Harry Turtledove.
Descriptions above in "What's New in the Stores."
You can get the sample chapters a few different ways: they're on the Del
Rey Web site (http://www.randomhouse.com/delrey/) and on the Panix gopher
(gopher.panix.com) in the Del Rey Books directory; you can request them
via e-mail from the Del Rey fileserver (delrey@tachyon.com; SENDME
sample.waterborn, sample.slow_river, sample.grayheart,
sample.wheel_of_dreams, or sample.hammer_and_anvil) and they'll be
available in CompuServe's SFLit Library 2 and AOL's SF and Fantasy
libraries, too. (For a list of all sample chapters available via the
fileserver, send a message to delrey@tachyon.com with "LIST sample" as the
body of the message.)
IN DEPTH========================================================
J. Gregory Keyes, author of this month's epic fantasy THE WATERBORN, talks
about anthropology and fantasy, and how for him, one leads to the other:
"They say that the center of the cave is guarded by a big snake," my
Choctaw friend tells me, his voice loud and flat in the enclosed space,
"and this whole hill is supposed to be full of _kwanakasha_."
I don't need to hear that. The cave is dark and very narrow--I have to
turn my shoulders sideways to move--and though my head is bumping the
roof, cold water is up to my mouth. A moment ago the wet clay above me
was even lower, with just enough room for my nose to thrust up, like the
snout of a turtle, to sip what seemed like teaspoons of air. Our only
light is the feeble glow of my headlamp, and it reveals almost nothing;
the water remains black mystery, as does the next turn of the cave, where
there may or may not be any airspace. I'm scared, and so is my Choctaw
friend, and there is no need for him to add the otherworldly to our
worries--though here, I suppose, we can hardly escape _that_. For we are
inside _Nanih Waiyah_, the hill from which some Choctaw say they issued at
the beginning of time, and at this moment I am prepared to believe in
anything, giant snakes and _kwanakasha_ (a sort of supernatural dwarf)
included.
Later, on a sunlit porch, I am still shaken, but I am becoming the
anthropologist again. I've written down what I felt, but that will be
filed away with other such things. The loss of a friend in a senseless
knife fight or the feeling of triumph when I score a point in _kapucha
