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According to Amazon UK, Bantam will published Ian C. Esslemont's hardcover novel City in the Jungle (title tbc) on November 7th, 2013. Could this be the final Malazan Empire novel about the continent of Assail? I believe City in the Jungle was the working title of Blood and Bone.
City in the Jungle? Assail novel?
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Posted 10 February 2013 - 08:01 PM
Jussi, on 10 February 2013 - 07:11 PM, said:
I believe City in the Jungle was the working title of Blood and Bone.
Considering the amount of times "city in the jungle" is said outright in BaB, I'd assume that to be the case. I'm guessing it's just a placeholder on Amazon at this point.
Sweet news, though!
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Posted 10 February 2013 - 08:37 PM
Salt-Man Z, on 10 February 2013 - 08:01 PM, said:
Jussi, on 10 February 2013 - 07:11 PM, said:
I believe City in the Jungle was the working title of Blood and Bone.
Considering the amount of times "city in the jungle" is said outright in BaB, I'd assume that to be the case. I'm guessing it's just a placeholder on Amazon at this point.
Sweet news, though!
And quite apt, as well. But not our Apt. He's not apt.
Anywho, yeah, think B&B is City in the Jungle.
I want the Assail novel to be titled: "All your questions are answered about the T'lan Imass, Crimson Guard, and Life in General." Think that is a long-shot, though.
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Posted 10 February 2013 - 09:01 PM
I can't remember where but I read something that said ICE's next novel would simply be called 'Assail'.
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Posted 12 February 2013 - 01:15 AM
HoosierDaddy, on 10 February 2013 - 08:37 PM, said:
Salt-Man Z, on 10 February 2013 - 08:01 PM, said:
Jussi, on 10 February 2013 - 07:11 PM, said:
I believe City in the Jungle was the working title of Blood and Bone.
Considering the amount of times "city in the jungle" is said outright in BaB, I'd assume that to be the case. I'm guessing it's just a placeholder on Amazon at this point.
Sweet news, though!
And quite apt, as well. But not our Apt. He's not apt.
Anywho, yeah, think B&B is City in the Jungle.
I want the Assail novel to be titled: "All your questions are answered about the T'lan Imass, Crimson Guard, and Life in General." Think that is a long-shot, though.
the answer is 42, duh!
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Posted 24 February 2013 - 01:04 AM
At this point I will accept 'Shit Actually Happens This Book'.
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Posted 09 March 2013 - 11:09 AM
New Transworld catalogue (March 2013 - December 2013) doesn't include any novel from ICE.
http://www.randomhou...ocument?id=1109
http://www.randomhou...ocument?id=1109
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Posted 09 May 2013 - 05:51 PM
Canadian release date for The City in the Jungle is December 24th.
http://www.bookloung...n=9780593064481
http://www.bookloung...n=9780593064481
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Posted 13 May 2013 - 11:48 AM
God I hope they change that title...
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Posted 13 May 2013 - 03:38 PM
I'm so perplexed... is it ASSAIL or the mmpb of BaB with a title screw-up?
Also, how are we going to acronym 'ASSAIL'?
Also, how are we going to acronym 'ASSAIL'?
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Posted 13 May 2013 - 04:51 PM
We could just call it "The Puppy Who Lost His Way" or TPWLHW. Or ASS.
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Posted 13 May 2013 - 05:08 PM
'ASS' just seems needlessly hater.
Perhaps 'ASL'... I suppose given it's one word, we could just use the book name.
Perhaps 'ASL'... I suppose given it's one word, we could just use the book name.
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Posted 13 May 2013 - 05:13 PM
Abyss, on 13 May 2013 - 05:08 PM, said:
'ASS' just seems needlessly hater.
Probably more "troll-y" than "hater", but yes.
Theorizing that one could poop within his own lifetime, Doctor Poopet led an elite group of scientists into the desert to develop a top secret project, known as QUANTUM POOP. Pressured to prove his theories or lose funding, Doctor Poopet, prematurely stepped into the Poop Accelerator and vanished. He awoke to find himself in the past, suffering from partial amnesia and facing a mirror image that was not his own. Fortunately, contact with his own bowels was made through brainwave transmissions, with Al the Poop Observer, who appeared in the form of a hologram that only Doctor Poopet could see and hear. Trapped in the past, Doctor Poopet finds himself pooping from life to life, pooping things right, that once went wrong and hoping each time, that his next poop will be the poop home.
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Posted 14 May 2013 - 09:06 AM
Well hopefully they scrap both and actually choose a decent title that coincidentally also has an easy acronym. 'Cos right now we're looking at CITJ or God forbid having to type six whole letters when we talk about the book. 
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Posted 14 May 2013 - 12:48 PM
I dunno, acronyms aside, given all the build-up, i think that there's something totally appropriate in titling the book simply 'ASSAIL'.
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Posted 14 May 2013 - 12:51 PM
Or "Finally, Assail"
Theorizing that one could poop within his own lifetime, Doctor Poopet led an elite group of scientists into the desert to develop a top secret project, known as QUANTUM POOP. Pressured to prove his theories or lose funding, Doctor Poopet, prematurely stepped into the Poop Accelerator and vanished. He awoke to find himself in the past, suffering from partial amnesia and facing a mirror image that was not his own. Fortunately, contact with his own bowels was made through brainwave transmissions, with Al the Poop Observer, who appeared in the form of a hologram that only Doctor Poopet could see and hear. Trapped in the past, Doctor Poopet finds himself pooping from life to life, pooping things right, that once went wrong and hoping each time, that his next poop will be the poop home.
