Thursday, January 7, 2010

15 Reasons To Live For The Next 10 Years

REASON12. A follow-up to Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.


With her brilliant literary fantasy novel Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Susanna Clarke changed both fantasy writing and what was considered acceptable in literary circles. She took a novel scientific-historical approach to her story of two magicians who become involved in politics and warfare in England during the Napoleonic Wars. Fans have been waiting for a sequel to the novel for quite a while, and insiders at Clarke's publishing house says she's definitely under contract to write one - supposedly a sequel set in the Middle East and Asia - but there's no deadline for this author who might take up to 10 years to write a novel. Let's assume optimistically that she's already been working on it for a couple of years - that means sometime in the 'tens we'll get to plunge into another of Clarke's amazing tales of magic and geopolitical history.

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