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.Subject: Del Rey Internet Newsletter (2/2)
.Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 16:23:03 +0000
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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.)
RAY BRADBURY is currently working on the screen play for FAHRENHEIT 451,
which will be produced by Mel Gibson's Icon Productions in conjunction with
Warner Brothers. This October Del Rey will be repackaging THE OCTOBER
COUNTRY--a haunting collection of short stories--with an all-new introduction
by Ray Bradbury.
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS' most famous creation--Tarzan of the Apes--is
experiencing a dynamic renaissance with the release of exciting new toys,
comic books, trading cards, a TV series, a Fox live-action film, and a new
Disney animated feature film. Bestselling writer R. A. SALVATORE is hard at
work on the official adaptation of the TV pilot, and beginning in November,
Del Rey will begin a bi-monthly release schedule for two-in-one Tarzan
omnibus editions, beginning with books 3 and 4 (THE BEASTS OF TARZAN and THE
SON OF TARZAN).
Book Three of JACK L. CHALKER's Wonderland Gambit series has arrived. THE
HOT-WIRED DODO concludes Chalker's romp through virtual reality, and is
slated for early '97 release.
DAVID EDDINGS and his wife LEIGH are hard at work on POLGARA THE SORCERESS.
Following hard on the heels of BELGARATH THE SORCERER, it will be the
last-ever book in the perennially bestselling _Belgariad_ and _Malloreon_
saga.
BARBARA HAMBLY--who is President of the Science Fiction Writers of
America--now has a _Star Wars_ book out, CHILDREN OF THE JEDI. She is
polishing up MOTHER OF WINTER, an eagerly anticipated sequel to her
first--and fabulous--fantasy trilogy, _The Time of the Dark_. Hambly will
also be writing the introduction for the next book in the trilogy collecting
the complete Del Rey Lovecraft, THE ROAD TO MADNESS.
The third and final book in the complete library of H. P. LOVECRAFT Del Rey
works, aptly titled THE TRANSITION OF H.P. LOVECRAFT: THE ROAD TO MADNESS,
will be published in October and will include three works that have never
before appeared in a Ballantine edition: "Cool Air," "The Terrible Old Man,"
and "Herbert West--Reanimator." The short story "Cool Air" was adapted by
the television series Night Gallery and "Herbert West--Reanimator" was the
basis of the Stuart Gordon feature film "Re-Animator."
R. A. SALVATORE will become part of the Tarzan renaissance as he writes the
official adaptation of Tarzan: The Epic Adventures--the two-hour pilot for
the new television series slated to debut in late September.
HARRY TURTLEDOVE's fourth and final volume in the Worldwar tetralogy,
WORLDWAR: STRIKING THE BALANCE, is scheduled for hardcover release in
February of 1997. Turtledove is already hard at work on another stand-alone
alternate history novel in the GUNS OF THE SOUTH vein, and on another epic
series akin to the _Worldwar_ saga.
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SIGNING, READINGS, CONVENTION ATTENDANCE BY DEL REY AUTHORS
TERRY BROOKS will be signing FIRST KING OF SHANNARA at the following stores:
April 1: Patrick AFB, Orlando, Florida, 12 PM
April 2: McDill AFB, Tampa, Florida, 11:30 PM
April 2: Waldenbooks, Tampa, Florida, 7 PM
April 6: M Coy Books, Seattle, Washington, 1:30 PM
April 6: Super Crown, Seattle, Washington, 4 PM
April 8: Borders, Dallas, Texas, 7:30 PM
April 10: Ft. San Houston, San Antonio, Texas, 1 PM
April 10: Lackland, San Antonio, Texas, 4 PM
April 10: Hastings, San Antonio, Texas, 7 PM-8:30 PM
April 11: Crown Books, Houston, Texas, 2 PM
April 11: Crown Books, Houston, Texas, 3:30-6:30 PM
April 13: Borders, Detroit, Michigan, 1 PM
April 14: Denver Public Library, Denver, Colorado, 7:30 PM
April 15: Fitzsimmons AFB, Denver, Colorado, 10 AM
April 15: King Soopers, Arvada, Colorado, 1:30 PM-3 PM
April 15: Tattered Cover, Denver, Colorado, 7:30 PM
April 16: Mediaplay, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 12 PM
April 16: Ft. Carson AFB, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 3 PM
April 16: McKinzey White, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 7 PM
April 17: Miramar Naval Base, San Diego, California, 2 PM-4 PM
April 17: Super Crown, Los Angeles, California, 7 PM
April 18: Barnes & Nobles, Del Mar, California, 7 PM
April 18: 32nd Street Naval Base, Coronado, California, 3 PM
April 20: Price Costco, Seattle, Washington, 12 PM
April 20: Waldenbooks, Tacoma, Washington, 4 PM
April 21: Bookworks, Marysville, WA, 1 PM
April 23: Scott's, Mt. Vernon, Washington, 7 PM
April 27: Fred Meyer, Portland, Washington, 12 PM
April 27: Powell's, Portland, Washington
JACK L. CHALKER, KUO-YU LIANG (Del Rey Associate Publisher), VERONICA
CHAPMAN, and STEVE SAFFEL (Editors) will be attending Balticon in Baltimore,
Maryland, April 5-7.
HARRY TURTLEDOVE will be attending Deepsouthcon in Jekyll Island, Georgia,
April 26-28.
ROBY JAMES will be reading and signing COMMENCEMENT with the SF discussion
group at Borders in Santa Monica, California, on April 23 at 7:00 PM, and
will be signing at Borders in Santa Barbara, California, on April 30 at 7:30
PM.
DEL REY NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS===================================
DEL REY ACQUIRES A NEW ANNE McCAFFREY NOVEL!
Del Rey has just acquired the paperback rights to a brand-new Anne McCaffrey
novel, BLACK HORSES FOR THE KING--a story of a boy, horses, and King Arthur!
The hardcover is being published this month by Harcourt Brace; Del Rey will
publish the paperback in September, 1997.
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DEL REY ACQUIRES WIL McCARTHY
We've bought two novels by this hard-hitting hard sf writer, starting with a
star-spanning tale that encompasses biological science as well as space
travel and the colonization of the Solar System.
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WEB WATCH
The renovation of the Del Rey Web site is complete, and we're now proud of it
again: http://www.randomhouse.com/delrey/
The Random House Web site will relaunch this month as Books@Random, a greatly
expanded and much more organized site encompassing books and offerings from
all divisions of Random House, Inc. (of which Ballantine and Del Rey are a
part): http://www.randomhouse.com/
And the Web site of Del Rey's parent company, the Ballantine Publishing
Group, will be overhauled early this month as well:
http://www.randomhouse.com/BB/
Your editor has been very, very busy...
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 MARTIAN DEATHTRAP and THE REIGN OF
THE BROWN MAGICIAN. 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.martian_deathtrap or sample.brown_magician) 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========================================================
Nathan Archer, author of our first _Mars Attacks_ novel, MARTIAN DEATHTRAP,
explains the origins of his appetite for the camp and gore of the _Mars
Attacks_ world.
MARS ATTACKS: Corrupting the Youth of America
It was a different world in 1962.
Parents were expected to protect their kids from any descriptions of sex or
violence. When I was seven I couldn't turn on the TV and see blood and gore.
Oh, I could see people shot by the dozen on "The Untouchables" or any of a
myriad of westerns, but it was so sanitized as to scarcely count--a gun goes
bang, someone falls down, and that's it. No blood, no mutilation, no visible
wounds of any sort, no twitching or spasming. In comic books nobody ever
died at all--the heroes could punch through brick walls and were constantly
beating on bad guys, but no one ever wound up with so much as a concussion.
Mad scientists unleashed monsters or giant robots on the world, but despite
extensive property damage, innocent bystanders always managed to get clear
safely.
This wasn't exactly realistic, and even at the age of seven I knew it
wasn't--I'd seen some of the real world, after all. But that's how it was on
TV and in the movies I saw and in the comics. Accurately or not, I had the
definite impression that my parents liked it that way. We kids would spend
our time making up "neat tortures" and the like, but we never mentioned it in
front of grown-ups.
So when I bought a package of trading cards luridly emblazoned MARS ATTACKS!,
and I opened them up and saw the top card was entitled "Burning Flesh" and
showed a soldier being burned to the bone by a Martian flamethrower, I
immediately knew that these cards were not something I could show my mother
the way I did my astronaut trading cards.
But wow, those cards were COOL! Flying saucers, giant bugs, pretty women,
death rays... and NOT cleaned up and sanitized!
I didn't buy any more after that first pack--I didn't dare--but boy, I sure
remembered them. And thirty-some years later, when I saw the comic books
based on the old trading cards, I snatched up each new issue eagerly. And
when an editor mentioned that Del Rey had the rights to do novels based on
'em, I did everything short of beg for the chance to write one.
So now it's written, and it's lurid and trashy and full of flying saucers and
bikers and death rays and classic cars and bikini-clad coeds and giant bugs
and feisty showgirls, and I am very, very proud of it.
--Copyright 1996 by Nathan Archer
Q & A===================================================================
Q: The March DRIN says you just acquired more Drenai books. When will they
be published?
A: We plan to first publish the rest of the books in _The Stones of Power_
series which include, LAST SWORD OF POWER (publication date: 9/96), WOLF IN
SHADOW (publication date: 2/97), THE LAST GUARDIAN (publication date: 7/96),
and BLOODSTONE (publication date 6/98). The new books in _The Drenai_
series, IN THE REALM OF THE WOLF, DRUSS THE LEGEND, and LEGEND OF DEATHWALKER
will be published between 1998 and 1999.
Q: I just finished reading the latest Deryni novel and wanted to express my
thanks for a great ending to the _Heirs of St. Camber_ series. Ms. Kurtz
hints in the closing pages that more could be coming. Do you have any
word on whether or not more novels are planned either in the Camber
sequence or in the Kelson sequence?
A: Yes, Katherine Kurtz is hard at work on a big, stand-alone novel to be
titled KING KELSON'S BRIDE. She says she can have the first draft ready in
the next few months, so we're hoping we can have the book ready for
publication in the fall of 1997.
Ellen Key Harris
Editor, Del Rey Books
Director of Online Projects, Ballantine Books
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