Forum:Joe Steele the Novel

So in my wanderings, I went to the Penguin books website (publishers of RB, IatD, Atlantis, DoI, etc.) and found this volume scheduled for 2015 called "Joe Steele". My initial thought was that it was just a new way to make the short story available via e-book, but then I see it's 448 pages. So my next thought is that it's a collection, a la Atlantis and Other Places, which would be nice. Certainly the odds favor that--Supervolcano is done, and we haven't seen a new collection since AaOP in 2010.

But then I also remembered that college talk HT gave where he mentioned off-handily that he had a manuscript due at the end of February, and I see this book is scheduled for April, 2015, and I remember that IatD was a short story before it was a novel....

However, I don't see JS being expanded into a novel. It's a fairly remarkable bit of economic story-telling, charting Steele's rise, rule as POTUS, and death in less than 15 pages, and really leaves no room for expansion. The logical follow up would be the J. Edgar Hoover years, not expanding 15 pages into 448.

Anyway, in case anyone cares. TR (talk) 21:09, May 29, 2014 (UTC)