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“It appears as though the publication date of The Witchwood Crown has been pushed back to Spring 2016,” revealed, “to allow time for editing of what is likely to be a massive manuscript.”
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Hold off on your re-reads, ardent Tad Williams fans! The author of Memory, Sorrow and Thorn announced via his Facebook page that the first volume in the upcoming sequel trilogy, The Last King of Osten Ard is being delayed until Spring 2016. It is unclear if both publishers will use Whelan’s paintings, though the art that Whelan produced was not used on the Gollancz editions of Brandon Sanderson’s The Way of Kings and Words of Radiance. The first volume of The Last King of Osten Ard, The Witchwood Crown, will be released from DAW Books and Hodder and Stoughton in 2016. Let us hope, however, that we get more inspired work than Whelan’s last cover. Since the trilogy was released in the 90s, the North American editions have never featured different artwork. This is tremendous news for fans of Williams and Whelan, as the artist’s work has become synonymous with Memory, Sorrow and Thorn. Also expanded is the story of the twin babies born to Prince Josua and Lady Vorzheva-a birth heralded by prophecy, which has been the subject of feverish fan speculation since the release of To Green Angel Tower in 1993. In this new trilogy, Williams journeys back to the magical land of Osten Ard and continues the story of beloved characters King Simon and Queen Miriamele, married now for thirty years, and introduces newcomer Prince Morgan, their heir apparent. The official back cover blurb provides some hints to what awaits Whelan: Michael Whelan’s official website revealed that the legendary artist, who rarely works on cover art since semi-retiring to focus on fine art in the early 2000s, will be painting the cover art for Tad Williams’ The Last King of Osten Ard, Williams’ sequel trilogy to his modern classic, Memory, Sorrow and Thorn. Reminds me a bit of Stina Leicht’s (very good) contemporary Irish fantasy, Of Blood and Honey.
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That all said, I do think the cover for Stone of Farewell is the best of the bunch, and is nice in a gritty, punch-you-in-the-face kind of way.
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They’re bright, expansive, and full of colour-these covers do little to convey the tone and spirit of Williams’ classic tale.
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Martin to write A Song of Ice and Fire, but they’re not edgy or dark. Memory, Sorrow and Thorn might have inspired George R.R.
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I’m usually a fan of Hodder & Stoughton’s covers, and Summers’ previous work for Hodder & Stoughton is stylish-particularly his cover for Lavie Tidhar’s A Man Lies Dreaming-but these are a big miss for me.Įven in a vacuum, where the series doesn’t already have some of the most iconic cover art, by one of the field’s legendary artists, these just aren’t right for the series. So, when Hodder & Stoughton, one of my favourite SF/F imprints, announced they’d be publishing the series in the UK with brand new covers, I was appropriately excited. It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of Tad Williams’ Memory, Sorrow and Thorn, a landmark epic fantasy trilogy published in the ’90s.