Scott, do you have the manuscripts for v. 5 yet?

Is it looking like March2010, May 2010, or Late 2010? (those are the dates floating around the forum section over at NSB).

I hope the library got the scans/scripts to you for the final volume!

This volume is it! The epic quest for CAS writings will finally be complete!

The Night Shade page for the book is still saying "September 2010".

I'm in the process of making photocopies from the CD-ROMs for Ron and myself at present. So we are making progress. (Gott sei Dank!)

Scott

Scott Connors Wrote:
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> I'm in the process of making photocopies from the
> CD-ROMs for Ron and myself at present. So we are
> making progress. (Gott sei Dank!)
>
> Scott

If you have the manuscripts, then that is good news indeed!

Six months have passed and September is only 4 months away!

Will this book be finished and ship in September?

Im looking forward for this.
I have volumes 1 2 and 3 i still need to get #4

:-)


-Jeremy

Night Shade books along with making some of the most amazing collections of all times, has taught me patients will pay off...
They've also turned me into a fricking poet.

Mortusslinea

Amorphic and changing always just out of sight
I change with the darkness extending each night
An illusion when seen, for I am seldom near
The closer I get the further away I appear
So search for your portents, Your omens, your signs
There's nothing so just that I can't undermine
Your hopes are but grapes that I crush to make wine
For I am Mortusslinea, Destroyer of Deadlines

Yea... I should write a book :)

Don't blame them. Mea culpa.

Scott

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> Don't blame them. Mea culpa.
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> Scott

Scott, how is the work on volume five going? Will it be done by September? (Only 4 months away)

I think he just told you.

Jojo Lapin X Wrote:
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> I think he just told you.

That is not what I want to hear!

I fear this set will not ever be complete. There is no excuse either!

This is my challenge to you, just put in one hour per night on this project and get it finished. Spend a few weekends and get it finished. Do what it takes! 5 years have passed!

Eldritch Frog Wrote:
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> I fear this set will not ever be complete.

Don't be ridiculous. Work is being done on Vol. 5, yet you say you fear this set will not ever be complete?

> 5 years have passed!

I would say "only five years", but that's because there are some books that have kept me waiting much longer. Five years is nothing in my book.

Eldritch Frog Wrote:
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> Jojo Lapin X Wrote:
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> > I think he just told you.
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> That is not what I want to hear!
>
> I fear this set will not ever be complete. There
> is no excuse either!
>
> This is my challenge to you, just put in one hour
> per night on this project and get it finished.
> Spend a few weekends and get it finished. Do what
> it takes! 5 years have passed!

And you have four wonderful books that probably wouldn't exist if Scott Connors hadn't devoted himself to them. Sorry, I never understand the rush, especially when four of five of the books have already appeared. Again, I have an apartment FULL of things to read, so I stay busy regardless of Vol. 5 or not, but will be very happy when it is in hand, whenever that is. (Just my unsolicited opinion.)

Well, I suppose that we all kind of pick and choose what we deem most important and relevant, eh, Rog? ;-)

While I can certainly understand the desire to have the thing as soon as possible, such a "challenge" strikes me as churlish at the very least, given the amount of work Scott has put in on all this. While the fiction itself has long been written, the other work entailed with this project is no small endeavor, and unforeseen events can slow things down a great deal, whether that be difficulty in obtaining the proper manuscripts, correlating various versions of a tale, alterations in publication scheduling, or any of the thousand-and-one details which can derail "the best laid plans", despite the best efforts.

And I, too, must admit that I'd rather it take time and be the very best it can be, rather than have it (comparatively) rushed through... I've seen too many examples of what happens with publishing in such an event. No, thank you. As for the "five years!"... Pffft! I waited twenty-five years for Moorcock to complete his Pyat sequence (Some Reminiscences of Mrs. Cornelius Between the Wars), and fourteen between the third and fourth (and final) books of the sequence... and it was worth the wait! There are quite a few other instances I can think of where five years is negligible in comparison... and in none of those I can think of has it not been worth the extra time. Frustrating it may be (at times), but the end product is generally quite enough to make it worthwhile.