News about the Rivers of War series
Hi, all
I just thought I'd let everybody know that Baen Books will be picking up the American alternate history series I started at Del Rey, with 1812: THE RIVERS OF WAR and 1824: THE ARKANSAS WAR. I just signed a contract for two new books in the series.
Eric
Loyal minion note: We don't yet know anything about the status of the first two novels except that 1824: The Arkansas War is scheduled for paperback release by Del Rey. The possibility of webscriptions availablity of TAW is open to discussion but unknown. More when we hear it.
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Well, great. What’s the next one, 1825 or 1836?
Comment by Bill Woods — May 23, 2007 @ 7:04 pm
Hopefully it’ll be the Rivers of War Gazette, from my POV.
Comment by Erik — July 6, 2007 @ 1:11 pm
Good news. I read the first one in the Baen free library, and then bought the PDF of the second one. And, after dealing with the DRM PDF, decided not to bother with any further installments. It seems I now have to. My poor VISA.
Comment by tmp — September 22, 2007 @ 3:34 pm
Just saying I am delighted to hear that more will be done with this series. I am absolutely captivated with the 1824 universe and am on tenterhooks to see how the war will develop and the characters will continue to grow.
Comment by Jack Beslanwitch — October 3, 2007 @ 2:41 am
I’m a bit surprised that Jefferson’s children haven’t shown up…the Hemmings, that is…Harriet, Beverly, Eston, and Madison. Jefferson did free them at his death (1826), and in the 1824 universe they might feel safest in Arkansas. Given that Jefferson had strong feelings that slavery was morally wrong, and given that he was lucid in 1824, I would think a statement either in life or in his will would be forthcoming…hard to imagine him shutting up about the subject.
Comment by C.R. — October 7, 2007 @ 8:40 pm
Having recently read 1812, I find the general themes of your book are based upon interesting assumptions. First, that the immense dormant industrial and military power of the United States could be stopped by a group without heavy industry in massive quantities. Second, that the poor Irish, a group noted for their fanatical loathing of black people, are somehow going to ally with them. Third, its condemnation of the “elites” for their crimes. The New York Draft Riots and the Klan were not caused by elites, but by the group which always loathes minorities the most, the poor. The “egalitarians” were generally the most sincere and fanatical in their hatred, with Nathan Bedford Forrest as an excellent example. “Egalitarianism” is a useful way to distract from things that actually matter, like human rights.
Comment by Dylan — November 10, 2007 @ 10:59 pm
So where are you at with the new R.O.W . novel, and the new Asanti Shards novels. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll buy Time Spike, and probably the paper versions of the Gazette. But I’m JONESING for more of these books.
My Name is El and I’m a Flintaholic.
Comment by El — April 17, 2008 @ 4:33 am
Hopefully, if it follows the formula of skipping approximately 12 years, it’ll be 1836 and have to do with the Nullification Crisis in South Carolina, maybe even jump starting the Civil War early.
Comment by Nick Destefano — May 3, 2008 @ 12:03 pm
I look forward to read the two new novels.
Dylan I think that you are to naive in your comment. It is true, that poor loath minorities most, but it is the case because somebody with money and or influence uses simply the “poor” for certain interests.
As for Human Rights: It is a very overused and misused term. I haven’t seen yet that the mass media simply shows breach of human rights. If you see a massive campaign again a contry than there are always other interests behind it.
Look at the situation with the Olimpic Games in Peking. Such a massive campaign hasn’t been started in a while. Sure there are problems in Tibet, but they don’t deserve the attention they got, if you compare them with other Human Rights violitions in other places in the world. To realy mean something Human Rights have to be protected everywhere and not serve as an instrument of economic and strategic competition.
Comment by Maxim — May 9, 2008 @ 1:08 pm
Since the first book actually happened in 1814 rather than the 1812 in the title, it would be more consistent to skip 10 years instead of 12. However, the war must be over by then, so it would seem odd to skip most of it.
I’m interested to know what would happen to the 1830-1846 Mormons in this changed world.
Responding to #6 above, I think Eric makes it clear that a war with the full force of the industrial and military power of the US behind it would overrun Arkansas by sheer numbers—but the political cost is a different matter entirely. And there aren’t a huge number of Scots Irish supporters.
Comment by Peter Ahlstrom — July 27, 2008 @ 6:07 pm
The whole point of the Arkansas war is that somehow it solve (partly) the dilemma put on the republic: slavery. When it was solved, the reasons lead to Civil War are nullified.
In other words, instead of the Civil War between the North and the SOuth now we have the Arkansas War between the Blacks (and Reds) with the Whites (very small part, I admit, but White they are). And rumpus, fracas and etc among the Whites of various states. Instead of one concentrated war, now we have multitude of riots, unrests and a small war…
Instead of a limb removal operation now we have a high-fevered-but-whole patient. Yep, that will work.
Comment by laclongquan — August 12, 2008 @ 3:06 am
Good for people to know.
Comment by Mariah — October 22, 2008 @ 1:06 pm