Ask the Author: Rachel Neumeier
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Rachel Neumeier
Thanks, and sure, I hit "accept" a second ago. I've fallen terribly behind in posting reviews here as well as at Amazon, so just as well to get a reminder about being more active here.
I'm more fantasy than SF, but read both -- as well as lots of other things. One of these days I'll branch out into SF as a writer as well as a reader. Possibly next year, as I have one and, hmm, about 7/8 of another SF novel completed at the moment.
I'm more fantasy than SF, but read both -- as well as lots of other things. One of these days I'll branch out into SF as a writer as well as a reader. Possibly next year, as I have one and, hmm, about 7/8 of another SF novel completed at the moment.
Rachel Neumeier
Thanks for asking -- I'm glad you're interested in a sequel. But, sorry, I probably will not actually write a full sequel to MOUNTAIN.
There is a novella set in that world and featuring the Kieba in my collection Beyond the Dreams We Know. If you pick that up and read the story, I hope you like it!
There is a novella set in that world and featuring the Kieba in my collection Beyond the Dreams We Know. If you pick that up and read the story, I hope you like it!
Rachel Neumeier
Thanks for asking! Yes, I don't have the cover yet, so I can't put it up for preorder on Amazon or put a page on Goodreads, but Copper Mountain will very definitely come out pretty soon -- I'm aiming for Oct 31 as the release date.
Yes, I fully intend a fifth book, which at the moment I believe will be the last installment. The full series will then be five books, with four short story collections in between each novel and the next. I should be releasing the 4th and last short story collection next year, 2021, and the fifth novel most likely in 2022.
Yes, I fully intend a fifth book, which at the moment I believe will be the last installment. The full series will then be five books, with four short story collections in between each novel and the next. I should be releasing the 4th and last short story collection next year, 2021, and the fifth novel most likely in 2022.
Rachel Neumeier
Yes! But I would really, really like to get the rights to the first book back from Random House first if at all possible, and that is difficult. If I can't, I will eventually self-publish at least one sequel. It is actually written, so that WILL happen eventually.
In the meantime, there is a Floating Islands novella in my collection Beyond the Dreams We Know. It is actually my favorite story in that collection.
In the meantime, there is a Floating Islands novella in my collection Beyond the Dreams We Know. It is actually my favorite story in that collection.
Rachel Neumeier
In 17 days. It's available for preorder on Amazon now. Also, I'm finishing up the next collection of Black Dog stories right now -- probably for release in July.
Rachel Neumeier
I have favorite authors who write as though they are scientists!
1. Rosemary Kirstein, whose Steerswoman series is amazing for the scientific point of view infused into some of the characters.
2. Marie Brennan's Lady Trent series, where the style and topics do a wonderful job of reflecting the type of worldview and work done by early naturalists.
3. James Cambias, whose debut SF novel A Darkling Sea drew very heavily on knowledge of biology and animal behavior, though I don't think he is an academic or a practicing scientist.
4. Some real thought went into the alien species we see in Eric Flint's Mother of Demons. He's a history guy, not a scientist, but I was impressed with how he worked out those species.
I've never been super-crazy about Golden Age science fiction, so some of the physics-heavy SF written by actual physicists doesn't really appeal to me. I'm thinking here of Gregory Benford and Fred Hoyle.
If you haven't tried Kirstein's series, I hope you do. I bet you love it even if it isn't finished yet.
1. Rosemary Kirstein, whose Steerswoman series is amazing for the scientific point of view infused into some of the characters.
2. Marie Brennan's Lady Trent series, where the style and topics do a wonderful job of reflecting the type of worldview and work done by early naturalists.
3. James Cambias, whose debut SF novel A Darkling Sea drew very heavily on knowledge of biology and animal behavior, though I don't think he is an academic or a practicing scientist.
4. Some real thought went into the alien species we see in Eric Flint's Mother of Demons. He's a history guy, not a scientist, but I was impressed with how he worked out those species.
I've never been super-crazy about Golden Age science fiction, so some of the physics-heavy SF written by actual physicists doesn't really appeal to me. I'm thinking here of Gregory Benford and Fred Hoyle.
If you haven't tried Kirstein's series, I hope you do. I bet you love it even if it isn't finished yet.
Rachel Neumeier
Answer varies with the phase of the moon! But stepping outside fantasy and SF, one of my favorite couples is from Laura Florand's The Chocolate Touch
In fantasy ... Lois McMaster Bujold does such a wonderful job with Dag and Fawn, overcoming the iffy age difference, at least for me.
In SF ... actually, now that I've thought of LMB, it's hard not to vote for Miles and Ekaterin.
In fantasy ... Lois McMaster Bujold does such a wonderful job with Dag and Fawn, overcoming the iffy age difference, at least for me.
In SF ... actually, now that I've thought of LMB, it's hard not to vote for Miles and Ekaterin.
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