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SFL Archives 1994: Daniel Keys Moran December 10 1994 Status Update

  DANIEL KEYS MORAN

  D.MORAN8@GENIE.GEIS.COM

    ***NEWS RELEASE***

     December 10, 1994

 

1). The new Continuing Time novel is called "Players: The AI War." It's set

    in 2080 and follows Trent the Uncatchable almost exclusively; he's in

    90+% of the novel's scenes. It's nearly completed and will be delivered

    to Bantam shortly.

 

2.  The following novel, according to current plans, will be "Crystal

    Wind." "Crystal Wind" is the novel that was originally called "Players:

    Revolution."

 

    The novel *after* that is the novel I told a bunch of people would be

    following "The Last Dancer." This is "Lord November: The Man-Spacething

    War." LN:TMSW is set in approximately 2680, six hundred years after the

    Trent/Denice stories. It's a very big novel 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, a Pinkerton Agent who also

    happens to be a Trentist, a member of the Exodus Church, aka "The

    Church of His Return."

 

    This novel was 70 or 80% done when Bantam, due to their success with

    "Last Dancer," requested that I do the sequels to TLD next, rather than

    Lord November.  This suited me...

 

3.  In my last news release, about two years ago, I told people that there

    would be two more Trent novels; there won't be. I'm killing him in

    "Players: The AI War," for a lot of good reasons - his death is, well,

    interesting.  Even Trent fans should not be much outraged by it, I

    hope.

 

4.  Bantam has promised to republish "Emerald Eyes" and "The Long Run"

    along with "Players: The AI War." ("The Last Dancer" is still in print,

    and doing quite well.)

 

5.  For a while I was selling copies of "The Long Run" screenplay.  I've

    pretty much ceased doing that; but I am making copies of the screenplay

    available online. Several people have volunteered to handle this; I'll

    let you know what's happening with it as soon as I have more info.

 

6.  Several different groups were negotiating, at one point, with Bantam

    over adaptation rights to "The Long Run." Nothing ever came of any of

    it; people at R. Talsorian Games, for example, told me that Bantam

    never returned their calls, which I find believable.

 

7.  After I turn in "Players: The AI War," I will no longer be under

    contract to Bantam. With my new contract I thoroughly expect to make

    enough money to do this for a living which should speed things up a

    lot.

 

The following 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  The TriCentennial Summer

  o  The Last Dancer

 

 

VOLUME TWO: ON THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION


 "Players: The AI War"............2078 to 2080

  o  Trent the Uncatchable and the Temple of 'toons

  o  The Big Boost

  o  Live Fast and Never Die

  o  The Lay of the Rose

  o  The AI War

 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

 "Crystal Wind".............................2090 to 2100

  o  Deserts of Glass

  o  Crystal Wind

 The Voyage of the Dauntless................2100 to 2102

 

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

 

 

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  The Child

  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 Human Race

  o  Mithian the Mercenary

  o  Homecoming Day 3030

 "Cities in the Darkness"...................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 Golden People"................................3515

 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

     (The Last Tale of the Continuing Time:

     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 Sheriff of Shokes"

 THE COLLAPSE OF THE LEVELS:

  o  "Poison is the Wind"

  o  "Winter's End"

  o  "Wild"

     (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:

 

          T R I N I T Y:  The Revolt of the Angels

                       Earth Angel

                        Sun Magic

               The Poet of the Apocalypse

 

NOTICE: The preceding is copyright 1994 by Daniel Keys Moran. It may be

 disseminated freely so long as the information contained herein is not

 altered in any way.

 

The author can be reached at D.MORAN8@GENIE.GEIS.COM

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