Forum:New AH News

I don't keep up with uchronia so apologies to anyone if I'm rehashing ridiculously out-of-date stories.

A Rainbow of Blood has a cover. A very cool cover, actually; almost but not quite cool enough to compensate for the stupid title. Which, by the way, has been promoted to A Rainbow of Blood: The Union in Peril: A Novel of Alternate History: Book 2 in the Britannia's Fist Trilogy. God, that thing's got more colons than a proctology seminar at a med school. At least we know how to refer to the series now.

I wonder if it will keep its April 2 release date. BF 1 was released almost ten months after its originally promised date, and it seems suspiciously well timed for an "April Fool!" gag.

Have to say I'm looking forward to that one much more than HW 2. I never thought I'd see the day when Tsouras was writing rings around Turtledove. What's next, Mad Bobby Conroy writing a 191-based timeline that stays internally consistent?

More significant, to my mind, but something you've probably heard of, is that Gingrich and Forstchen (every time I write that I hear "Foreskin" in my head) are back in the saddle. For reasons unknown, and quite disappointing to me, they seem to be discontinuing their WWII books on a cliffhanger.

Instead, just two short weeks from tomorrow they're going to publish a novel about Washington's Delaware crossing. I believe it's straight historical fiction this time. Heavy on the Washington POV, so it might read a bit like United States of Atlantis. A fictional private soldier supplement's Washington's narrative with some POV scenes of his own, and Thomas Paine narrates a small subplot.

Oh, and they've brought another coauthor into it: Albert Hanser. Never heard of him.