by uzwi
The new novel is out from Gollancz next June, and is already pre-orderable under the wrong title from Amazon. It will be called The Sunken Land Begins To Rise Again, a quote from Charles Kingsley* (reference to a better-known work of whose is made openly and throughout). A British experimental novelist recently gave me the following generalised advice: “Never try to explain what you’re doing,” she said. “Just distill a little story out of it–four or five lines will do–and tell that every time someone asks you what the book is about.” So: The Sunken Land Begins To Rise Again is a tale of starcrossed lovers so lonely and self-involved that they not only fail to maintain a relationship but also fail to notice a mysterious UK regime change, even though it’s more than possible their class is complicit in it. Reader, you might well recognise this situation! Anyway, there it is. June 2020. New novel. Who knows what sunken lands will have risen by then.
*”Thoughts in a Gravel Pit”
Wonderful news! Looking forward to it.. Guess we’ll all call it SLRUA.
Great news, Mike – congratulations. Amazon are also trailing “Selected Stories” …
Hi martm. Yes, that one is in the pipeline too, from Comma, with an intro from the fabulous Jennifer Hodgson.
Very exciting news! 😀
This is the best news, absolutely can’t wait.
Glad to hear.
Thanks, everyone. More news when there is some.
Excellent! Can hardly wait. Congratulations!
I look forward to it. Your prose and your concepts are the freshest thing I’ve read in years. It always entertains, provokes thought, and makes the English language come alive again.
Great news! Very much looking forward it. I think you once mentioned the possibility of a Kefahuchi Tract omnibus. Is that still in the works?
I’m afraid not. Gollancz have done Light, with an intro by the great Adam Roberts, in their “Masterworks” series, which would pretty well preclude them from doing all three in another volume. Maybe one day I’ll persuade someone to publish it as a high quality subscription hardback. I’d like to see it presented not just as a single volume but a single work, as with the Viriconium pb from 2003.