Any Chtorr fans here? (1 Viewer)

[Jeff Kleist]

Finally, David Gerrold's most evil, delay and cliffhanger filled saga's 5th chapter is in the home stretch!

A Method For Madness is now scheduled for early 2003. I only have about

50,000-75,000 words to go. The work is going fine, as you'll see below.

A Method For Madness: I have now written over 150,000 words of the primary

narrative of the book. It looks like it could go as long as 350,000 words,

or even longer. That will make it the equivalent of four ordinary novels.

Plus I have also written over 40,000 words of the interstitial material --

these are the little excerpts that appear between the chapters of the book.

In A Method for Madness, the excerpts will be taken from The White Book, the

encyclopedia of the Chtorran ecology. The White Book will explain large

parts of the Chtorran ecology and will clear up some of the mysteries that

Jim has been trying to solve since book one, including why there was a

fourth worm in that first dome.

Coming any day to a bookstore near you should be Leaping to the Stars, the third and final part of the Dingilliad trilogy (Jumping off the Planet, and Bouncing off the Moon are the others), his attempt (pretty succesful) of a modern-day Heinlein Juvie

 

[Walter Kittel]

I haven't read any of the Chtorr novels since ( guessing here ) A Rage for Revenge around 10 years ago. I got tired of waiting for the next book in the series and mostly forgot about these novels ( in terms of looking for the next work. )
I'm sure the books would be a lot of fun to read again, but I'll probably wait until the series is completely published, as I recall how frustrating it was waiting for the next work to appear.
( Which reminds me of Stephen Boyett's The Architect of Sleep and its unpublished sequel The Geography of Dreams. )
- Walter.

 

[Jeff Kleist]

Well, the 4 existing novels will be reprinted later this year, and if he actually keeps to the 7 book cycle he was planning, at the existing speed, we're talking 16 years until he's done

 

[Walter Kittel]

I guess I'll have to purchase the books as they are published and hermetically seal them against the day that the series is complete. Of course I may be senile by that time and the entire endeavor may be an exercise in futility.
- Walter.