{"id":295,"date":"2002-09-15T21:08:56","date_gmt":"2002-09-15T21:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-295.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"new-books-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2002\/09\/15\/new-books-in-october\/","title":{"rendered":"New books in October"},"content":{"rendered":"

Out in October: the new Kinsey Millhone novel, Q is for Quarry<\/a> by Sue Grafton, and Vectors<\/a> by Michael P. Kube-McDowell.<\/p>\n

I first came across Kube-McDowell when I picked up a remaindered copy of his novel Alternities<\/i> at a bookshop in St. Andrews. It was a parallel worlds adventure, exciting and fast paced. So I started looking out for more of his stuff. I found The Quiet Pools<\/i> (1990 Hugo nominee), his Trigon Disunity trilogy (Emprise<\/i>, Enigma<\/i> and Empery<\/i>), and finally I grabbed Exile<\/i> as soon as it was out over here in 1992. I couldn’t tell you now what the story was about, but I distinctly remember finishing it back then and thinking, “Wow, that was beautiful.”<\/p>\n

Since then, he has produced collaborations (with Arthur C. Clarke) and shared world novels (in the Star Wars universe, and Isaac Asimov’s Robot City series), but he hasn’t had a book of his own published in ten years. I remember reading a post he made on Compuserve several years ago about how difficult it is for a midlist science fiction author to stay on a publisher’s radar. The shared world books are easy moneyspinners, and putting Arthur C. Clarke’s name on the cover almost guarantees bestseller status. But how many books will the name “Michael P. Kube-McDowell” shift on its own?<\/p>\n

I’m glad that he’s found a publisher (Bantam Spectra) now who will take a chance on him, because he’s a damn fine writer.<\/p>\n

Link: K-Mac’s web site.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Out in October: the new Kinsey Millhone novel, Q is for Quarry by Sue Grafton, and Vectors by Michael P. Kube-McDowell. I first came across Kube-McDowell when I picked up a remaindered copy of his novel Alternities at a bookshop in St. Andrews. It was a parallel worlds adventure, exciting and fast paced. So I … <\/p>\n

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