Re: CAS v. 5 (Night Shade Books)
Posted by:
jdworth (IP Logged)
Date: 16 May, 2010 08:52PM
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.