The Last Repository

Mr.Land · Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2019 12:00 am Post subject: The Last Repository

I've run across several sites that list a June 20 2020 publication date for The Last Repository. That seems at least a year too early, although I would love it to be true.
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Savor Dam · Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2019 6:16 am Post subject:

I also see that date on multiple sites. Should it be true, that would be most welcome!
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wayfriend · Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2019 5:49 pm Post subject:

I would say 2021 is a better estimate. Donaldson spaces his books out fairly evenly.
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Hunchback Jack · Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2019 4:04 am Post subject:

SRD at one point said that he was allowing for - or perhaps even contracted for - 18 months between books, but "may not need that long".

It was 17 months between SD (Nov '17) and TWW (Apr '19). 18 months from April '19 puts us at October '20.

So if he's making good progress on book 3, June might be accurate.

Edited to add: I found the quote where SRD said this. It's in the News section on his website, in a post dated 8/17/16:

"My new fantasy trilogy, THE GREAT GOD'S WAR, has been acquired for publication by Berkley in the US and Gollancz in the UK. The first book, SEVENTH DECIMATE, is scheduled for October 2017. My contracts give me 18 months per book; but I'm hoping to do better than that."

HBJ

Hunchback Jack · Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2020 10:30 pm Post subject:

I'm also starting to see a date of October, 2021 for The Last Repository, but I'm hoping that's just a placeholder. June, 2020 is still mentioned on a few sites.

Or the reality could be closer to October, 2020 (given the 18 month period SRD is contracted for).

HBJ

Hunchback Jack · Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2020 12:58 am Post subject:

From stephenrdonaldson.com:

"I probably should have mentioned this some time ago, but I've been embarrassed. I used to pride myself on meeting my deadlines. But for reasons of ill health (my wife's as well as my own), I've been forced to get a considerable extension. Sadly, I won't meet that deadline either. But in this case, the reason is the sheer heft of the story I'm trying to tell in THE LAST REPOSITORY. The book is already almost 50,000 words longer than THE WAR WITHIN, and I still have (just guessing) 25% of the story to tell. In addition, I never let my agent and editors see my first draft. My need to do a second draft (primarily for internal consistency and style) will further delay the book by 3-4 months.

I regret all of this more than I can say. But I have to live my actual life while I'm writing."

renny · Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2020 10:58 am Post subject:

I can wait. I just wish him and his well. Excited about the 'heft' of the story though!

Seareach · Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2020 11:16 pm Post subject:

From SRD news

wayfriend · Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2020 11:55 am Post subject:

After going so long without any news, this is good stuff to hear.

That last comment, though -- someone is having morbid thoughts.
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renny · Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2020 2:42 pm Post subject:

Fabulous news! Bit worrying that last bit though....

Niftium · Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2020 3:06 pm Post subject:

Dude's hardly a shining beacon of optimism on his best days...

StevieG · Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2020 6:40 am Post subject:

Hunchback Jack · Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2020 6:18 pm Post subject:

That's great news. It sounds like he struggled with this one. Hopeflly we will see it next year?

wayfriend · Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2020 12:59 pm Post subject:

Mr.Land · Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2020 11:00 pm Post subject:

I'm sorry SRD isn't getting the title he wanted. I'm sure there were good reasons for his original choice, but I like the new title better. It's more active and few know what a repository is in any event. It also sounds too much like another word. Perhaps I'll have a different opinion after I read the third and final volume. In the meantime, be well SRD.
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Savor Dam · Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2020 12:24 am Post subject:

We've been there before. Shall Pass Utterly --> Against All Things Ending or Auger's Gambit --> The King's Justice are a couple examples.

An SRD book reads the same, regardless of the title. We fans are going to buy in any case; the last volume of this cycle is going to be a must-read.

Those not yet fans may be influenced by a title to delve deeper. Realistically, publishers are more driven by sales than by the quality of the literature or the faithfulness of the title to author intent. If they think this new title will move more copies, that is a good thing for them, for SRD, and perhaps for the fanbase.
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Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.
~ Rainier Maria Rilke

wayfriend · Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2020 2:12 pm Post subject:

What's more interesting to consider is, who is this titular Killing God?

That there is any god at all has only been hinted at until now. So on the one hand, this could go anywhere. On the other hand, it can feel unfair to drop a god into the plot at the last minute.
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wizardbill · Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2020 1:47 pm Post subject:

Mr.Land · Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2020 5:23 pm Post subject: TKG Release Date

Amazon UK has a release date of Oct. 14, 2021.
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wayfriend · Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2020 4:21 pm Post subject:

Uh oh.