roy@gitpyr.UUCP (Roy J. Mongiovi) (05/18/85)
Well, I picked up the paperback version of "The Door into Shadow" by
Diane Duane this past week. I was startled to find, when I got it
home, that this is the sequel to "The Door into Fire" which will be
released in August. Is this something new, or have I been asleep?
I thought the usual way is to publish volume 1 first, and then
follow it up with volume 2, not vice versa....
Is this a new way to sucker money out of us? Did the publisher
take statistics and determine that it wasn't good enough to just
split single novels up into several volumes to make more bucks?
(As an aside, I bet that if "The Lord of the Rings" was published
today it would be in five volumes instead of three. Sigh.)
Maybe too many people buy volume 1 and then decided not to read
volume 2. What gives?
--
Roy J. Mongiovi. Office of Computing Services. User Services.
Georgia Institute of Technology. Atlanta GA 30332. (404) 894-6163
...!{akgua, allegra, amd, hplabs, ihnp4, masscomp, ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!royellen@reed.UUCP (Ellen Eades) (05/19/85)
> Well, I picked up the paperback version of "The Door into Shadow" by > Diane Duane this past week. I was startled to find, when I got it > home, that this is the sequel to "The Door into Fire" which will be > released in August. Is this something new, or have I been asleep? > I thought the usual way is to publish volume 1 first, and then > follow it up with volume 2, not vice versa.... > > -- > Roy J. Mongiovi. Office of Computing Services. User Services. Sorry, but you must have misread that. The _Door Into Fire_ is already out, has been out for a couple of years. _Door into Shadow_ is the sequel, and _Door into Fire_ has been re-released in a rewritten version to correspond more closely with _Door into Shadow_. I believe there is a third book, _Door into Starlight_, which is due out soon. Ellen Eades
kalash@ucbcad.UUCP (Joe Kalash) (05/21/85)
> Well, I picked up the paperback version of "The Door into Shadow" by > Diane Duane this past week. I was startled to find, when I got it > home, that this is the sequel to "The Door into Fire" which will be > released in August. Is this something new, or have I been asleep? You have been asleep. "The Door into Fire" was orignally printed about 1980 (about, my copy is buried in a box at the moment) be DELL. However, I am pretty sure I have seen copies of "Fire" floating about in the new Bluejay editions fairly recently. In any case, I recommend you go and i) Read Door into Shadow ii) Find, then read "Door into Fire" they are both excellent works. I have read all six of her novels, and I think she is one of the best up and coming writers we have around. Joe Kalash kalash@berkeley ucbvax!kalash
brust@hyper.UUCP (Steven Brust) (05/21/85)
> Well, I picked up the paperback version of "The Door into Shadow" by > Diane Duane this past week. I was startled to find, when I got it > home, that this is the sequel to "The Door into Fire" which will be > released in August. Is this something new, or have I been asleep? > I thought the usual way is to publish volume 1 first, and then > follow it up with volume 2, not vice versa.... > > -- > Roy J. Mongiovi. Office of Computing Services. User Services. > Georgia Institute of Technology. Atlanta GA 30332. (404) 894-6163 > ...!{akgua, allegra, amd, hplabs, ihnp4, masscomp, ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!roy I hope you aren't going to be overwhelmed by responses to this, but I'd feel really stupid to have held off on answering and found that everone else did, too. DOOR INTO FIRE was published several years ago. It is a contender on my private Best First Novel contest. -- SKZB