Notable for the level of hype, broken promises and writing that never happened.
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Date: 24 Aug 92 07:47:32 GMT
From: d_moran@pain.la.ca.us (Daniel Keys Moran)
Reply-to: sf-lovers-written@Rutgers.Edu
Subject: Continuing Time
Daniel Keys Moran
P.O. Box 667
Van Nuys, CA 91408
***NEWS RELEASE***
August 13, 1992
Okay, in response to the questions, for those of you who asked. (This is a
very lengthy document.)
1) There is a new Continuing Time novel. It's called "The Last Dancer," and
it's set principally in 2076, though there is a lengthy section set
50,000 years in the past. The book is principally about Denice
Castanaveras, during a TriCentennial Rebellion. Trent is in the book for
about one hundred pages; as I said, it's mostly Denice's story.
"The Last Dancer" expands the stage on which events are taking place;
you'll finally learn something substantial about the Continuing Time at
large, as opposed to learning only about post-Unification Earth.
The book is more than twice as long as "The Long Run", which is part of
why it took as long to write as it did. Also I got divorced midway
through it; and then my editor had a baby, so she couldn't edit it for
about five months; and then Bantam fired her, along with a whole bunch
of other people . . .
The upshot is that "The Last Dancer" is completed, Bantam has it and has
paid for it; but the book may not see publication for nine months or a
year, until Bantam has the first draft of the *next* Continuing Time
novel in hand.
You will *never* have to wait this long again for a new book from me. My
promise to everyone who wrote... and wrote... and wrote...
2) The Continuing Time novel I'm currently at work on is "Lord November:
The Man-Spacething War." It's set in approximately 2680, six hundred
years after the Trent/Denice stories. It's another very big novel, and
the first Continuing Time novel that's really *set* out in the
Continuing Time. Its principal characters are Tyrel November, one of
Denice Castanaveras' descendants, and Bodhisatva Sill, a Pinkerton Agent
who also happens to be a Trentist, a member of the Exodus Church, aka
"The Church of His Return."
"Once there was a thief, and the thief was God..."
I think you'll like it.
3) There are two more novels coming about the Trent you have come to know
and argue over. Unlike "Last Dancer," Trent will have about as much time
on stage as in "The Long Run." The two books are due soon after "Lord
November" - and I do mean soon. They'll be published pretty much back
to back.
Coming in 1994:
The discovery of star travel, the passing of an era, and the end of the
story of Mohammed Vance, Denice Castanaveras, and Trent the Uncatchable
PLAYERS:
Book One: The AI War
Book Two: Revolution
4) And to close, some news about "The Long Run," and "Emerald Eyes," the
novels that got everyone's attention in the first place.
A. There is a "Long Run" screenplay. It's being shopped around
Hollywood as we speak. It covers events in both "Emerald Eyes" and
"The Long Run." Copies are available directly from yours truly at
$80 a pop. $40 of this goes to either AIDS Project L.A., or RLA
(Rebuild L.A.). The other $40 is approximately what it costs me
(time and expense) to have a copy of the screenplay printed, bound,
and mailed. (You get to decide which of those two worthy causes your
extra $40 goes to.) Receipts will show contribution.
B. Copies of EE and TLR. *Damn* good question. If anyone out there
finds a place where they can buy copies, let me know. I'd be
interested.
On a (slightly) more optimistic note, my editor said that Bantam
would be re-issuing EE and TLR when "The Last Dancer" comes out. Of
course, this was right before they fired her...
Several people have requested that I make EE and TLR available as
data files - a sort of literary "shareware." I actually find this an
attractive idea, and I'm thinking of releasing some short Continuing
Time fiction this way - write if you're interested - but for EE and
TLR, I can't. Except for screenplay rights, Bantam essentially owns
those novels - I was 24 and naive when I signed those contracts.
Inevitably all fiction will be available digitally; I'm disinclined
to fight the inevitable, even if I thought it a bad thing, which I
don't.
C. R. Talsorian Games is currently negotiating with Bantam for the
rights to do a "Long Run" module for their "Cyberpunk" RPG. RTG
seems serious, but I have no idea if anything will come of it; I'd
like to see it happen, but Bantam controls the game rights to TLR,
not me.
This does not mean there will not be a "Continuing Time" based RPG,
even one with Trent in it; however, it may be based on scenarios
from "The Last Dancer" or "The AI War," stories to which I control
the rights.
D. Capstone Studios, a startup graphics company in L.A., run by John
Dismukes and Geoff Miller, is by an odd coincidence also currently
negotiating with Bantam for the rights to do a "Long Run" graphic
novel. Once again, I have no idea if anything will come of this, and
it's out of my hands. *However,* it looks very likely that "The AI
War," the next Trent book, *will* be done as a graphic novel,
possibly even before book publication, regardless of whether or not
"The Long Run" ever sees such publication. I *do* control the rights
to that.
I want to thank everyone out there who's kept the faith with me these last
three years. The stories are coming; I haven't abandoned Trent or Denice or
my readers, or myself. I've been working on the Continuing Time since I was
thirteen, and I'm not stopping now.
Titles in quote marks are individual novels; the rest are short stories.
These are the Tales of the Continuing Time:
DATE:
VOLUME ONE: "IN THE BEGINNING..."
Starcloud...................Previous Cycle of the Wheel
Spacethings..............................7 Billion B.C.
The Revolt of the Living...............4.5 Billion B.C.
The Time Wars..........................3.5 Billion B.C.
The Continuing Time.........................62,000 B.C.
"The Last Dancer: The Dancer"...............48,000 B.C.
The Painsharing of Ifahad....................5,800 B.C.
The Lord in His Castle..................540 to 589 A.D.
Remembrance........................................1963
Driving in the Dark................................1982
"Emerald Eyes: The Ancestors"......................2030
The Shepherds......................................2049
"Emerald Eyes".....................................2062
Faster than the _Wind_.............................2063
"The Long Run".............................2069 to 2070
o The Last Summer of His Youth
o The Long Run
o The Wall
"The Last Dancer: Spring 2072"....................2072
"Bordered in Blue".................................2072
o Sea Songs
o Death Songs
The Mechanism of Desire............................2074
"The Last Dancer"..........................2075 to 2076
o Summer: 2075
o Spring: 2076
o Back to the Beginning: Dvan's Story
o The TriCentennial Summer
o The Last Dancer
VOLUME TWO: ON THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION
"Players, Book One: The AI War"............2078 to 2080
o Trent the Uncatchable and the Temple of 'toons
o The Big Boost
o A Good Hair Day (The Lay of the Rose)
o The AI War
o Trent's Return
Moving.............................................2082
"Walk Against the Wind"....................2087 to 2090
"The Last Detective".......................2090 to 2091
o Master of the Fucking Obvious
o Deathjokes, Part One
o Catch Me If You Can
"Players, Book Two: Revolution"............2090 to 2100
o The Telepath, the Politician, and the Thief
o Deathjokes, Part Two
o The Light From the Crystal
o The Voyage of the Dauntless
o A Revolt in 2100
VOLUME THREE: THE WAR WITH THE SLEEM
"A Song as Yet Unsung".....................2111 to 2119
"A Tale as Yet Untold".....................2121 to 2139
"Legend"...................................2145 to 2149
Post one of two.
d_moran@pain.la.ca.us
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Date: 24 Aug 92 07:50:18 GMT
From: d_moran@pain.la.ca.us (Daniel Keys Moran)
Reply-to: sf-lovers-written@Rutgers.Edu
Subject: Continuing Time
VOLUME FOUR: THE EXODUS FROM EARTH
The Corridor of Dawn...............................2290
"The House of November"....................2291 to 2294
o Ares
o Sondra
o Richard: the First Lord of November
o Lorn
The Lords of Shadow................................2309
The Left Handed Hunter.............................2341
"Kinderjim on Earth"...............................2347
"The Serendip, the Starclouds,
and the Scout".....................2349 to 2361
o Discovery
o Looking for Home
"Domain"...................................2382 to 2389
o Homecoming Day
o The Domain of Kinderjim
o Domain
"The Always Rising of the Night"...........2468 to 2501
(Being the true story of Our Lady of
Nightways, Ola Blue, who was Lady Blue,
who was Leiacan of Eastersea.)
Honorable Enemies..................................2614
"Lord November:
The Man-Spacething War"............2676 to 2682
The Face of Night..................................2696
VOLUME FIVE: CAMBER'S WAY
"Young Camber".............................3000 to 3018
o Young Camber
o The Darkness Has a Name
o The Hunted Man
"The Winding Way Home".....................3022 to 3030
o The Song of Camber and S'Reeth
o The Song of S'Reeth and the Freebooters
o The Old Humans
o Mithian the Mercenary
o Homecoming Day 3030
"Lord Camber"..............................3036 to 3038
o The Traveler
o Cities in the Darkness
o The Borderland of Night
"Camber's Way".....................................3040
VOLUME SIX: THE TIME WARS
"Comes A Man"..............................3106 to 3107
"In Time of Legend"..........................Irrelevant
"All of the Things That You Are".............Irrelevant
"In All of Your Brilliance:
The Writings of Camber"........3397; Irrelevant
VOLUME SEVEN: THE FAILURE OF THE MAP
"Platformer"...............................2964 to 3031
Shiva..............................................3042
Chauki November....................................3392
The Return of the Ultimate Webdancer...............4600
The High Servant...................................7822
"Anarchist"................................8864 to 8976
o The Last Lord of November
o The Way the World Ends
o Anarchist
"End of Empire"....................................9082
"Monument: The Day of Its Release"...............10,400
(In which the Chained One, Creator of the
Great Wheel of Existence, is released; the
Starclouds and the Zaradin return; heroes
who died before die again; and the
Continuing Time draws to an end.)
The Cold Time..............................circa 12,000
Related Works (fictional and otherwise):
"The Encyclopedia of the Continuing Time" (Non-Fiction)
"Tales of Old and New Earth"
o Other Times and Other Places
o Tales of Old and New Earth
"The Way off the Wheel"
(In the universal heat death, as the Great
Wheel of Existence collapses around them,
a group of heroes searches for the Way off
the Wheel.)
"The Collapse of the Levels"
(A fantasy trilogy unlike _anything_ you
have ever seen before, deeper and more
detailed than "The Lord of The Rings." Of
course you won't _get_ to see it for about
twenty years; a trivial enough wait for a
classic of this magnitude.)
And, last but _certainly_ not least:
TRINITY
Earth Angel
Sun Magic
The Poet of the Apocalypse
d_moran@pain.la.ca.us
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