In his forward to the second book, Williams apologized to his readers about the cliffhanger ending to the first. Good news, honey! The new Tad Williams book is out! It is not, as we find out, and the scope of the villainy that has been done to it is truly astonishing. You even find yourself feeling for the Other, which we – and the protagonists – have always believed to be the main villain of the story. For the bad ones, you want them to get their just desserts, to see them suffer as they have made others suffer. You care about the characters, and you want everything to turn out all right for them. The important thing is that, by the end of the book you really do feel invested in the world that Williams has created. I have a sneaking suspicion that Williams might have been able to stretch this series into a fifth book, but it probably would have suffered from Rowling Syndrome – a lot of unnecessary padding in between the important bits. There is a rather major revelation that comes near the end that just kind of… gets written off. There’s a lot to take in by the end of the series, a lot of loose ends to tie up, but it all wraps up rather nicely. As it moves towards its ending, which does involve a lot more explaining than most other books do, it’s easy to get swept up in the sheer scale of the narrative. Lawyers, children and old women are his army, and together they will uncover the horrible and heartbreaking truth about the nature of the Other and the evil that has been done to it. Offline, Sellars has brought all of his players into position. There they must face the eventual death of the network and survive it, if they can. The other half… they ended up in the heart of the Other’s secret dreams. Half of them have been thrust back into the twisted realms of Otherland, where the horrors and dangers that had been built into it have mutated into unrecognizable terrors. The Navigator's Children is expected to follow in late 2022 or early 2023 (the two books were originally one volume but have been split in two for publication due to length).While they are successful, none of them look this cool.īut those explorers themselves face greater dangers than Dread. Into the Narrowdark is currently scheduled for publication on 12 July 2022. Seeing the same penny-pinching attitude applied to one of DAW's historically biggest-selling authors (Williams has sold over 17 million books) is quite strange. The author will now be completing that series with the help of her fans via Patreon. Similar financial restrictions meant that DAW were forced to drop Michelle West's Essalieyan universe series in August. The books are published by DAW Books, who are editorially independent but distributed by Penguin Random House, who also have a say in the company's financial affairs. Sweet passed away whilst working on the final Wheel of Time cover, Whelan was the only choice to step in and replace him. Whelan has also created artwork for the likes of Brandon Sanderson, Melanie Rawn, Anne McCaffrey, C.S. Whelan's artwork adorned The Witchwood Crown and Empire of Grass, but the remaining two books in the series, Into the Narrowdark and The Navigator's Children, will have new cover art from an as-yet unannounced artist. Whelan is one of the highest-regarded artists working in science fiction and fantasy, and his critically-acclaimed cover art has adorned all of Tad Williams's Memory, Sorrow and Thorn books so far, as well as the first two volumes of the Last King of Osten Ard sequel series. In a bizarre move, Penguin Random House has decided to go with a different cover artist for future Tad Williams books, apparently being unwilling to stump up the money for further covers from acclaimed artist Michael Whelan.
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