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Event news revised — and first review for Heirs of the Blade

The Reading signing, this Friday 14^th at 6–8pm, will be at the Oracle shopping centre Waterstones, not the Broad Street one I've been at before (1). Saturday's threeway signathon at Forbidden Planet, London, 1–2pm is still on as advertised.

I will also be signing somewhat festively at the Leeds Waterstones 12–2 on Friday the 16^th December this year, if you're more north-oriented (3). Oxford signing still being arranged.

Lastly, I see today that LEC Book Reviews has got in with an early and pleasant review of Heirs of the Blade (4).

(1) Don't know if this is because it's a Friday or because of vicious inter-store politics. (2)

(2) Backstage, as it were, in the Broad Street Waterstones in Reading — the bits only the staff get to see — was an experience. Everywhere there were motivational posters with Mr Men on them, exhorting the staff to remember various items of shop policy. It was like a fascist state run by Roger Hargreaves.

(3) which should be an oxymoron.

(4) and not Heirs of the Balde as I constantly mistype.

Posted by Adrian Tchaikovsky on October 11th, 2011

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11 Comments

11 comments to “Event news revised — and first review for Heirs of the Blade”

Moon Kim, October 12th, 2011 at 3:21 am:

Heh Heirs of the Balde, surprised you aren't writing it as Hairs of the Balde (bad pun)

My book just arrived today, really really excited. Imma put off my studying until I read a few chapters :D.
Moon Kim, October 12th, 2011 at 5:19 am:

… Okay I'm going to hide my book for a while because Adrian I think you wove in some sorcery there as I can't let of the book 😐
Descalon, October 13th, 2011 at 12:52 pm:

Any chance of you getting of the island that is Great Britain and visiting mainland Europe?
Adrian Tchaikovsky, October 13th, 2011 at 7:16 pm:

Like a Ronin, we poor authors wander the world going wherever a living can be made by our meagre skills. Which is to say, if someone pays the travel, then there's every chance. The very kind people at Rebis have already had me over to Poland twice, for example, but my own stretched resources are unlikely to fund an international signing tour, alas.
Guerric Haché, October 13th, 2011 at 7:33 pm:

I just finished reading it yesterday, and I must say, it's great! Very interesting to finally get a glimpse into the Commonweal and see what that's all about. I particularly like how you handled Varmen, for some reason; I've taking a liking to the Wasps in general, even if so many of them are bloodthirsty egomaniacs. And the hints at the Centipede-kinden are very intriguing (at least that's what I think is going on, if I piece together my recollections of Moth lore as exposed in the earlier novels, combined with the prophecies). I can't wait to see where this goes! The only downside is that once I start reading, I find myself unable to engage in much creative thinking during my spare time, constantly drawn back to the book like a moth to an electric bug-zapper.

I suppose you won't be spoiling things for us, but I've taken to thinking of iconic insects that don't have a kinden yet, and though the list is short, one hit me just this morning: cicadas. I recall an incident in which a 9 year-old me discovered a gigantic cicada sitting on the clothes we'd hung out to try, and now, on behalf of that certainly long-dead bug, I must ask: will there be any Cicada kinden, in the books or in other stories?
Moon Kim, October 13th, 2011 at 9:36 pm:

Guerric, in one of the short stories there is a cicada kinden. One of them is represented in this one http://shadowsoftheapt.com/bonus/stories/219.

Finished reading as well and man I was amused and scared by the black humor between the spider and the wasp. Adrian, Spider methods of killing is artistically horrible. I didn't think of Jewel Wasps being used that way… what next, bot flies? D:

I for one want to see Agaonid wasps in wild and with trees modified by them. Would be an awesome setting.
kevin, October 13th, 2011 at 10:13 pm:

any news on Heirs of the Blade and Sea Watch being published in the USA? Have been waiting for them to show up on Pyr but nothing yet…
Adrian Tchaikovsky, October 13th, 2011 at 11:39 pm:

No news as yet, I'm afraid, Kevin.
Adrian Tchaikovsky, October 13th, 2011 at 11:41 pm:

Moon Kim/Guerric: And indeed the rowdy guys at the fire in Heirs, in Lowre Cean's compound, are also Cicada-kinden (1).
(1) Unless they got cut. I haven't actually had a copy of the damn thing myself, so I can't check.
Guerric Haché, October 14th, 2011 at 7:26 am:

Nope, not cut, I remember who you meant, although there is no mention of their kinden in the book — just that they are unusual-looking. Well, it appears I was pre-empted!
Descalon, October 14th, 2011 at 9:04 am:

That's fair enough. Must mean I'll have to go to the UK then :).

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