The third book in my Terra Incognita trilogy, THE KEY TO CREATION, will be released in paperback next week. I just received my author copies, and they look gorgeous! Terra Incognita is a grand epic, a clash of two continents and religions, a story filled with sailing ships and sea monsters, the crusades, determined captains, vengeful leaders, and populations caught up in a tangled war. For all readers who loved my Saga of Seven Suns, this is a similarly huge story with many plot lines and characters.  I think it's one of my most ambitious stories—THE EDGE OF THE WORLD,...
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June is audiobook month—so it's appropriate to make the posting and announcement here. Shortly after we sold the hardcover novel of Clockwork Angels to ECW Press (for a lavish full-color edition with illustrations by Hugh Syme), I was contacted by the editor at Brilliance Audio, who had produced the unabridged audios of many of my novels.  Of course we wanted an audiobook edition of CLOCKWORK ANGELS: The Novel, and we knew the fans would want it as well (Rush fans being audio-oriented, and all). Even better, Neil suggested that he would like to read the audio himself. With the novel—and...
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It's an annual pilgrimage, when I travel up to spend days with Brian Herbert so we can brainstorm our next novel together.  Last year, it was HELLHOLE AWAKENING, before that SISTERHOOD OF DUNE.  This year, we're ready to dive back into the Dune universe with MENTATS OF DUNE, the follow-up to SISTERHOOD OF DUNE. Brian picked me up at the Seattle airport and we drove into downtown Seattle to sign books at the University Bookstore (and went to lunch with the science fiction manager Duane Wilkins...we've been signing books for Duane for more than 13 years now). Brian and I...
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Flap copy for Clockwork Angels: The Novel: I can’t stop thinking big… International bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson teams up with Rush lyricist and drummer Neil Peart to expand the story set out in Clockwork Angels, the twentieth studio album by the legendary rock band. All the journeys of this great adventure— It didn’t always feel that way For more than two centuries, the land of Albion has been ruled by the supposedly benevolent Watchmaker, who imposes precision on every aspect of life. Young Owen Hardy from the village of Barrel Arbor dreams of seeing the big city and the...
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