[champ]

I haven't seen any indicators yet but not too far in. Not read the Nona series in a while though, sure there will be something that points the way.


I'll get a good bit of time tomorrow to read so will post more thoughts after.

[Macros]

Read the Girl and the Mountain tonight.

Great book, but my wifey bust out laughing at my response to the ending

"No, you bastard, you can't end it like that"


The only possible recourse is that the next book is due out this coming week.

God damnit that last paragraph.

[champ]

I still haven't had the chance to read much more, life has gone crazy busy this last week...


Hey Mark, if you read this... Will any of the special editions be released in the UK at all? I went to buy the 10 year anniversary Prince of Fools but postage is still at $70, I didn't mind paying that for RQW special edition but don't think I can justify paying that again for delivery only. Sucks for fans outside of the US.

[Mark Lawrence]

champ, on 06 May 2021 - 04:56 PM, said:

I still haven't had the chance to read much more, life has gone crazy busy this last week...


Hey Mark, if you read this... Will any of the special editions be released in the UK at all? I went to buy the 10 year anniversary Prince of Fools but postage is still at $70, I didn't mind paying that for RQW special edition but don't think I can justify paying that again for delivery only. Sucks for fans outside of the US.

Anderida Books are looking into bringing some across and reselling, but the postage is going to be expensive whatever way you cut it. Postage between countries is just flat out expensive and rockets when you want to track and insure, and package to ensure that postie can't damage the contents however hard they try (and they do try hard).

[champ]

Mark Lawrence, on 06 May 2021 - 09:00 PM, said:

champ, on 06 May 2021 - 04:56 PM, said:

I still haven't had the chance to read much more, life has gone crazy busy this last week...


Hey Mark, if you read this... Will any of the special editions be released in the UK at all? I went to buy the 10 year anniversary Prince of Fools but postage is still at $70, I didn't mind paying that for RQW special edition but don't think I can justify paying that again for delivery only. Sucks for fans outside of the US.

Anderida Books are looking into bringing some across and reselling, but the postage is going to be expensive whatever way you cut it. Postage between countries is just flat out expensive and rockets when you want to track and insure, and package to ensure that postie can't damage the contents however hard they try (and they do try hard).

Aye, I can see why the costs are what they are, especially if you want it arriving in one piece from the US. I've had some bad experiences with that. COVID has messed things up too.


Great to know though re Anderida, I'll keep an eye out... but knowing myself by the time the book appears there I will have found an excuse to justify the costs and purchased from Grim Oak.


Thanks for the response.

[Macros]

Would there be any value in trying for a bulk order?

[champ]

Macros, on 07 May 2021 - 07:16 AM, said:

Would there be any value in trying for a bulk order?

Taking a look it would bring down costs:


https://grimoakpress...rince-of-thorns


1 book for delivery is $75.45, 2 is $89.72 and 3 is $102.73 for example.

[Macros]

Just need to find some like minded nerds

[RACHEL]

I have always intended to do a Lawrence re-read but was waiting for the girl and the stars trilo to be done. Well the other day I picked up Prince of Thorns and I'm already onto Emperor. I love this trilogy. Last year I didn't make my reading goals and this year looks to be even worse but I am blasting through these books so hopefully I continue at this pace.

[champ]

RACHEL, on 18 June 2021 - 03:59 PM, said:

I have always intended to do a Lawrence re-read but was waiting for the girl and the stars trilo to be done. Well the other day I picked up Prince of Thorns and I'm already onto Emperor. I love this trilogy. Last year I didn't make my reading goals and this year looks to be even worse but I am blasting through these books so hopefully I continue at this pace.

Ah, happy rereading. When you read the RQW trilogy straight after TBE you notice just how much they compliment each other, plenty of nods and easter eggs, it really adds to the experience reading the series like that. Also look out for the Orichalcum!


I had to wait for my mood phase to change before I could settle back down into reading The Girl and the Mountain but back to it now, just had a put the book down moment…

Spoiler

I've just read the term "Haze-Gate."


That's got to be referring to our boyo Nick Hayes surely?!

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"What is it?" Thurin stared in awe. "A haze-gate."
…
"Everywhere," said one of the blind sisters. "Everywhen," said the other. "It was the gateway that gave us vision, that made us see everywhere and everywhen," said the sister with the eye, "though a single eye does lack a certain depth perception . . . so sometimes it's hard to judge the order in which things happen."

Everywhere… Everywhere… that's got massive implications for the series which I need to get my head around.


Also some random thoughts…


Valak testing the group with the Star echoes when Prince Jalan was tested…


Eular using time-skip like Taproot, I wonder just how long he has been using this for? Also he surely would have had access to the haze-gates, could he be someone we've met before?!


Arges and the Graeae, more God/Mythology shenanigans… I wonder if Mark just liked Clash of the Titans as a child and that is why we are getting this.


Also further confirmation that it was Thurin/Prometheus at the start of the series with the witches prophecy and greatness/fire when the Graeae say to him…

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Though you of all people should know how it is when you come to witches for prophecy.

The entire conversation with Arges is great, some nice info drops about the Missing… a Holothaur, sure we saw one of these before in the Nona series.


Also what fuckers…

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The threat you posed was that you might follow the Missing. The arks took command of your technology and ensured that you would be unable to do so.

The Missing really did not want to followed… so with what happened with Zole, I wonder what implications that has. Also losing control of their tech, did this help accelerate the issue with the ice covering the world?


Lastly… language of the Missing… any ideas?

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Subarti canith serad?

[champ]

Back to reading after The God is not Willing… About 80% done. Just come across a discovery that made me put the book down…


Random thoughts whilst reading, all book spoilers…

Spoiler

~ For Kao… the feels…


~ The Zin and Mokka story, read it, thought holy shit, spent half hour thinking it through and the implications for the story… only for it all to be explained on the next page anyway… facepalm…


~ Oh Maya…


~ Holy crap!!!! Minus eighty-six outside without windchill… I repeat… holy crap!!!


~ More holy crap!!!! Novices, if we find out who they are we will then know when this book is set, let's go… so we have a name, Maliaya… who the hell is Maliaya?!?! One messed up hand… so now I need to find a nun with one hand…


~ And yet even more holy crap… Taproot came on a Marjal fleet… from their federation?!! Space book incoming please Mr Lawrence…


~ Hmmm…

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Confronted by a galaxy of dying stars…

Travelled that far for that long we are at the end of the universe, woah…


~ And bloody hell, there we are with the proof about the Builders/Missing connection…

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"The Missing are us—the fifth tribe. Another breed, grown apart over the long march of years, but from the same seeds. The oldest of them came from Earth just as I did. Whether they left before or after we did is hard to say but we sail the seas of time as well as those of space and they arrived here an eon before the four tribes. "It seems that unlike our arrival, when we brought many people of flesh and blood and few ancients like me, the Missing brought few people and many ancients.

With the line, "The Missing brought few people and many ancients." I knew it! It just rang correct.


~ Hmm…

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"It's the moral pollution of an ancient civilization. The oldest of our evils, carried here across vast tracts of space and time. I have suspicions about the one calling himself Theus.

Could we actually know Theus / Prometheus?


~ Big LOL… so all the God "stuff," named after gods etc is nothing more than their ego talking…

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This place is modelled on an ancient faith, one of the oldest our kind has ever nurtured, and in their senility the city minds style themselves on the gods of that faith. It's their own version of the Missing's ascendance.

I expected more than that but I will take it…


~ Zox > Mecha-Cerberus


~ But the true HOLY SHIT moment… Maliaya… the Novice… this has got to be Sister Pan… going medieval with a frying pan… which makes this a prequel… holy shit… so, so, so…. If the Moon is still in the sky that means Seus is defeated? We have Taproot in the computer system of the moon too so Yaz does get him there?! But then where is Yaz in the Nona series… I honestly didn't expect this to be a prequel series…

Not much more to go, really enjoying the book, I think it is better than the first book, glad that we are not fixed in one location…

[champ]

And finished, a good end to a good book...


I thought we were due answers - book 5 set on this world - and answers we definitely received. A lot now makes sense, certainly with regards to thinking about the history of Abeth and I am liking how it is all lining up. Especially liked the explanations around the Missing, their leftovers and then the tribes and how it all connected.


We've still got mysteries though so I'm looking forward to book three...

Spoiler

~ Oh I loved this line...

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“If you fashion yourselves as gods from a stolen culture then think of me as a Titan. The race of your fathers. Conveniently, I was once known as Prometheus.”

That entire scene with Haydies was epic, sneaky bastard hiding in Zox but he was a good pup whilst in Zox so Theus is ok.


~ Head explosion...

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...I need you because on all of Abeth the only person closer to the Missing than me . . . is you.”

And...

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“So, Yaz, just as Mali is a quantal full-blood, and your swift friend here is a hunska prime, you are a Missing half-blood, heir to the stars as you call them...

Boom... but makes so much sense and we now have a direction for the third book..


~ Hey, it is Pan for sure!!! Hi prequel Pan...


~ LOL Evil chickens?!?!? Hello Goodkind...


~ God dammit Mr Lawrence, God damn cliffhangers... Nice ending but God dammit...

Roll on next year...

[Mark Lawrence]

Just for folks who like free stuff:

https://www.wattpad....kLawrenceAuthor

[Mark Lawrence]

Macros, on 07 May 2021 - 07:16 AM, said:

Would there be any value in trying for a bulk order?

Worth noting that the Broken Binding - based in the UK is doing a 10th Anniversary Prince of Thorns special edition at a much lower price point (and cheap P&P for the UK):

https://www.thebroke...n-mark-lawrence

Happy Christmas

[Macros]

So this is one you're signing for me?
Such a nice Christmas present, thank you so much Mark!

[champ]

Mark Lawrence, on 14 December 2021 - 08:00 PM, said:

Macros, on 07 May 2021 - 07:16 AM, said:

Would there be any value in trying for a bulk order?

Worth noting that the Broken Binding - based in the UK is doing a 10th Anniversary Prince of Thorns special edition at a much lower price point (and cheap P&P for the UK):

https://www.thebroke...n-mark-lawrence

Happy Christmas

I saw this on your newsletter and got it ordered though I missed out on the lettered edition.


Do they intend to do 10th Anniversary for King and Emperor too?

[Mark Lawrence]

champ, on 22 December 2021 - 12:32 PM, said:

Mark Lawrence, on 14 December 2021 - 08:00 PM, said:

Macros, on 07 May 2021 - 07:16 AM, said:

Would there be any value in trying for a bulk order?

Worth noting that the Broken Binding - based in the UK is doing a 10th Anniversary Prince of Thorns special edition at a much lower price point (and cheap P&P for the UK):

https://www.thebroke...n-mark-lawrence

Happy Christmas

I saw this on your newsletter and got it ordered though I missed out on the lettered edition.


Do they intend to do 10th Anniversary for King and Emperor too?

Yeah, the lettered edition was gone in 60 seconds. Always seems to be the way.

They do plan King and Emperor too, as do Grim Oak Press with their super-deluxe version.

Good to see the news letter is getting through - I only started it a couple of years back. Should have had one from day 1 really.

[champ]

Mark Lawrence, on 23 December 2021 - 02:37 PM, said:

champ, on 22 December 2021 - 12:32 PM, said:

Mark Lawrence, on 14 December 2021 - 08:00 PM, said:

Macros, on 07 May 2021 - 07:16 AM, said:

Would there be any value in trying for a bulk order?

Worth noting that the Broken Binding - based in the UK is doing a 10th Anniversary Prince of Thorns special edition at a much lower price point (and cheap P&P for the UK):

https://www.thebroke...n-mark-lawrence

Happy Christmas

I saw this on your newsletter and got it ordered though I missed out on the lettered edition.


Do they intend to do 10th Anniversary for King and Emperor too?

Yeah, the lettered edition was gone in 60 seconds. Always seems to be the way.

They do plan King and Emperor too, as do Grim Oak Press with their super-deluxe version.

Good to see the news letter is getting through - I only started it a couple of years back. Should have had one from day 1 really.

Good news re King/Emperor, they will be added to the look out for list, thank you for the info.

I've come close to ordering the Grim Oak edition so many times now, as in 1 click away, I'll probably crack this month as it is bonus month ha.

The newsletter is a really good idea too, I've never had a problem with it arriving, it normally lands in my "Promotions" tab of Gmail though strangely enough your December newsletter was the first time it landed in my "Primary" inbox.

One thing to consider, if you decided to do more than the usual 3 a year I think your fans would forgive you for that!!!!

[Mark Lawrence]

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I've come close to ordering the Grim Oak edition so many times now, as in 1 click away, I'll probably crack this month as it is bonus month ha.

Crack! Crack!

(I've just formally agreed to the deal for Grim Oak Press to do the luxury 10th anniversary editions for King of Thorns and Emperor of Thorns)

[pat5150]

Almost done with The Girl and the Moon and I have two words for you guys:

Hot damn!