We've got an all-star lineup of bestsellers and award winners from half a dozen different genres for this one. And here's a first look at the cover:
The table of contents looks like this:
Stories from the Spinner Rack," by George R.R. Martin
"The King of Norway," by Cecilia Holland
"Forever Bound," by Joe Haldeman
"The Triumph," by Robin Hobb
"Clean Slate," by Lawrence Block
"And Ministers of Grace," by Tad Williams
"Soldierin'," by Joe Lansdale
"Dirae," by Peter S. Beagle
"The Eagle and the Rabbit," by Steven Saylor
"Seven Years from Home," by Naomi Novik
"The Custom of the Army," by Diana Gabaldon
"The Pit," by James Rollins
"Out of the Dark," by David Weber
"The Girls from Avenger," by Carrie Vaughn
"Ancient Ways," by S.M. Stirling
"Ninieslando" by Howard Waldrop
"Recidivist" by Gardner Dozois
"My Name is Legion," by David Morrell
"Defenders of the Frontier," by Robert Silverberg
"The Scroll," by David Ball
"The Mystery Knight," by George R.R. Martin
And yes, that last one is the new Dunk & Egg novella, the longest one to date.
Several of the other writers also contributed tales from their on-going series: a Lord John story by Diana Gabaldon, an Emberverse yarn from Steve Stirling, a Soljerboy tale from Joe Haldeman. But we also have vikings, doughboys, legionaires and legionaries, fly girls, buffalo soldiers, and a dozen other different sorts of warriors.
Gardner and I are very high on this one. Hope you will be too.
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Oh - and I just finished reading Hunter's Run (found, sadly, on the remainders table, not far from Making Money) - good stuff, and I wonder if this collaboration might not have come from the working together on that?
And man, I've been wanting more Dunk & Egg. I actually really like the Dunk & Egg stories more than I like what I've read of the main SoIaF books. I'm probably alone in that, but The Hedge Knight comic was my first time reading anything you had written and it really changed my perception of what fantasy could be like.
A windfall indeed . . .
Winter Is Coming, but that just means that we are coming closer to a new Dunk & Egg story!! :)
Anyway, I might pick this up, but only if it's full of AWESOME.
Kylaer, you jerk.
And yeah, "The Mystery Knight" of course.
rude about when the next book will be out. It'll be out when it's
out! *hides the poor little vulnerable remaining Starks*
The cross-genre aspect looks especially appealing to me; the fact that you've got at least 8 of my favourite authors in various genres and a new Dunk & Egg, and it's co-edited by Gardner (my favourite editor)....well, pre-order from Amazon.ca, here I come!
Stoked for Dunk & Egg 3, that's awesome! I was hoping they'd be at the wall, but from the title 'Mystery Knight' something tells me they aren't. Maybe I'm wrong? either way I'm sure it will be a great read.
It took me a bit of looking at Amazon too, but I found The Sworn Sword at Amazon under:
"Legends II: Dragon, Sword, and King (Mass Market Paperback)"
Is the Naomi Novik story Tremeraire based?