NOTE: this page was updated on 18 July 2012
SCHEDULED FOR PUBLICATION — firmly scheduled with dates from Baen Books.:
October 2012—1635: The Papal Stakes, with Charles Gannon. This is the direct sequel to 1635: The Cannon Law.
May 2013—Portal, with Ryk Spoor. This is the last novel in the Bemmie trilogy that began with Boundary and Threshold.
June 2013—Burdens of the Dead, with Mercedes Lackey and Dave Freer. This is part of the Heirs of Alexandria series and is a parallel volume to Much Fall of Blood.
Works in progress
● Portal, with Ryk Spook. This is the third and last book of the Bemmie trilogy, and is the sequel to Threshold. There will be no more books in this series, but Ryk and I are planning to use the setting for novels set a couple of centuries or so after the events depicted in Boundary, Threshold and Portal. We have a contract with Baen for two novels in that setting. The first of them will essentially be an SF retelling of Swiss Family Robinson.
● 1636: The Devil’s Opera, with David Carrico. This is part of the 1632 series. The novel is a murder mystery set in Magdeburg and, in terms of story chronology, is contemporaneous with my novel 1636: The Saxon Uprising. The manuscript has been turned in but no publication date has been set yet.
● Cauldron of Ghosts, with David Weber. This is part of Weber’s Honor Harrington series and is the sequel to Torch of Freedom. NOTE: “Cauldron of Ghosts” is a working title. The book may be published with a different title.
● A Desperate and Despicable Dwarf. This is part of the Joe’s World series, and is the sequel to Forward the Mage. The manuscript is about two-thirds finished.
● 1636: Drums Along the Mohawk, with Walter Hunt. This is another novel in the 1632 series and is set in North America. NOTE: “Drums Along the Mohawk” is just a working title. The book will be published under some other title.
● 1636: Commander Cantrell in the West Indies, with Chuck Gannon. This is another novel in the 1632 series and is set in North America. NOTE: “Commander Cantrell in the West Indies” is just a working title. The book will be published under some other title.
Regarding the 1632 series organization…
The 1632 series has a mainline—or spine, if you prefer—which consists of the following novels:
● 1632
● 1633 (with David Weber)
● 1634: The Baltic War (with David Weber)
● 1635: The Eastern Front
● 1636: The Saxon Uprising
I call this the “mainline” or “spine” because it’s these novels which provide the central political and military developments for the whole series. These are also the novels which focus on the main characters of Mike Stearns, Rebecca Abrabanel, Jeff Higgins and Gretchen Richter. Since Baltic War, I’ve been writing these novels solo. My original plan had been to co-author them with David Weber, but we learned from hard experience with the long delay in getting Baltic War written that it’s just too hard for David and I to mesh our schedules often enough. Instead, David and I will devote the remaining three volumes in the 1632 series we have under contract for a different project. (See below.)
Because we got a little too far ahead of the rest of the series with the Italian line of the story in 1635: The Cannon Law, I left that thread aside for a while. I’ve picked it up again with a novel I co-authored with Chuck Gannon, titled 1635: The Papal Stakes. That book is coming out this October. Meanwhile, Andrew Dennis and I will be starting a new thread in the series that focuses on the British Isles and has as its main characters Julie and Alex Mackay. (With a number of other important ones, such as Darryl McCarthy, Victoria Short, Oliver Cromwell and Gayle Mason—i.e., all the characters who stayed in England after the escape from the Tower of London depicted in Baltic War.)
There’s an additional thread/sequence to the series that I’m doing with several other writers, mainly Virginia DeMarce, that runs parallel to the mainline sequence but involves actions that are closer to the ground, so to speak, and feature a much more varied cast. The first book in this sequence was 1634: The Ram Rebellion, followed by 1634: The Bavarian Crisis, 1635: The Dreeson Incident, and Virginia’s 1635: The Tangled Web.
The next title in this sequence with be an anthology with works from me, Virginia, Kim Mackey and Anette Petersen. The title of it is 1635: The Wars on the Rhine.
In the nature of things, though, this “parallel mainline” sequence has pretty fuzzy boundaries. All of the books in it are in many ways part of the mainline, certainly in terms of political developments. For instance, Bavarian Crisis also serves as the immediate political sequel to Baltic War.
What David Weber and I will do is develop a specifically naval side to the series, which will focus on Admiral Simpson.
I’m also beginning a new thread, that focuses on the New World. The first volume in that thread will be an anthology along the lines of Ram Rebellion, with stories from me, Chuck Gannon, Iver Cooper and probably some others. In addition, Walter Hunt and I are co-authoring a novel that’s centered on North America. The working title for it is 1636: Drums Along the Mohawk and, no, that won’t be the actual title.
Also under contract in the series are:
● 1635: Symphony for the Devil, with David Carrico.
● 1636: The Viennese Waltz, with Gorg Huff and Paula Goodlett.
● 1636: Stoned Souls, with Mercedes Lackey.
…coming. Have a great weekend.
I’d like to start off with a sincere thank you for writing the ring of fire series novels. Ever since i got hooked on scifi via trading paperbacks in vietnam i’ve read, well lots, a good many but none has absolutly hands down pulled out a can of whup ass on all the others as 1632 and the rest that has followed. Even the romantic pairings of the characters are just superb ( and i don’t care so much for romance in my books), so much so that, and i’m really and i mean really hoping that i’m wanting to read more of bernie and natasha, mike and rebecca, eddie and anne cathrine, darrell and victoria, tom and rita, and all the rest but especially bernie and eddie, i’ll admit i did have a dodge and had eddies troubles with women before anne cathrine until i was in the military at that age too. so if you get a writers block please fill in with i’m pretty sure with all the jumping thru the window a few more loosened wedding gowns. eddies wedding you could even bring together a whole passel of the characters. anyway sorry for the shamless nagravatting for more stories and really, thank you for hours of pure pleasureable reading.
Thank you for your whole series, it is currently the only serious alt-history I read, and my favorite reading consists of waiting for each and every one of your books to come out. I hope it won’t be long before I’ll be reading another great book.
It seem like I’ve been anticipating the Carrico novel forever! I hope that it will be published soonest. I have loved all of David’s stories in the GG and look forward to his characters and themes being given a novel length treatment.
Amazon now has 1636 The Devil’s Opera announced for release October 1, 2013. Also, the long awaited first North American novel is inching closer! 1634: Iron and Ice rough draft is in to Eric for comments. This will be published as an ebook only. Details are still being ironed out. This takes the stories published in the Gazette as Northwest Passage on the Danes and the Dutch and expands almost three fold on the events.
please put it on paper Herb
Please, PLEASE, P L E A S E ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
Don’t make it only E-Book. There is nothing more aggravating than having it in E-book only format. I don’t like E-Books. I don’t want to have to use a kindle or an I-pad or any other electronic device to read a book. I Love to read a real book with a cover and printed words in ink! Please don’t do this to those of us who are avid fans of your series. Please don’t do it in E-book format only. Print it for us please. It’s one of the biggest gripes I have about the Star Wars series. They have a few E-books and I will never read them or have them in print to read them. Please don’t do this to us who are avid readers and followers of the 1632 series.
I will check with Eric to see if any of the sites that will be handling it have a print on demand option. With the backlog of stories under contract already, Iron and Ice would have been at least three years out and followed Walter Hunts New World book that is set in 1636. As the most ‘junior’ writer for the series, and a first time book on top of that, I get to be the guinea pig to see if ebooks will work for the series. At least this way, all the great tidbits on the New World settlement will get told and there might be paper versions of future tales.
The Star Wars series does a lot of time bring out paper copies of the novellas and such later, so I’m hoping the e-books make it there too. And that they keep coming with all the upheaval with all things Lucas and Star Wars
I wholeheartedly agree with Timothy Kirkby. E-books are trashy expensive gimmicks for the geeks with more money than sense. A real paper book, more especially in it’s hard-back format, is a thing of sheer beauty to treasured for a lifetime on one’s bookshelf after reading. An E-book leaning on it’s side is just a piece of soulless, black, white or whatever colour plastic resin and circuitry with no memorable appeal whatsover. By all means let the geeks and nerds have an e-book format if you must but as a minor side-line, but give us die-hard “traditionalists” of the true-written word, the hard-backed paper format of the 1632 series, as Guttenberg intended, so that we can continue to remain loyal avid readers of this never ending saga! Afterall in Grantville they are a long way from ever inventing let alone using e-book technology, so in the true spirit of all things old-fashioned, it is only fair that the hard-back book continues to take pride of place in this 21st century corner of the 1632-Universe. Failure to include us in all future titles might mean we have to seek an audience with Gustavus Adolphus himself or his legal consuls and ask him to retake Grantville from those electro-geeks who seek to deny us of our basic human right to further enjoyment of such titles from the stables of Mr Flint et al.
Re: “1634: Iron and Ice” the first N. American thread for Eric MUST COME OUT IN HARDBACK!!!!
The book is finished and the cover art is in the works. Title is still subject to change, since there may be a sequel to it. Eric is listening and there is a good probability that a Print on Demand may be offered.
I really want to know what happens to Gustavus Adolphus, Christina and Ulrik. The last I read, Gustavus Adolphus was in a coma, his rather unsympathetic old-time chancellor was taking control, and Christine and Ulrik were heading for Magdeburg. I cannot believe you want to leave their stories hanging!
1636: the Saxon Uprising finished up those dangling threads among others. Came out in ’11, about 3 full length novels back…
Thanks for that. I actually had the Saxon Uprising on my kindle, but I think I had decided to read (more or less) in chronological order, and somewhere on the line, did not realise that I had not read Saxon Uprising. So thanks for putting me straight, apologies and thanks to Eric – now back to the book!!!
seems like “1636: the devils opera” will be released in october 2013 and “1636: seas of fortune” in january 2014.
strange that i can’t find anything about this here…
any update on “Cauldron of Ghosts”
any update on Cauldron of Ghosts
Eric, your forthcoming section really needs to be updated as it has been almost a year since the last update.
don’t exaggerate, it’s only been Ten Months. Come July I’m thinking of baking a cake.
I just finished reading “The Heretic” a few days ago and i’m wondering when the sequel is coming out?
Any word on restarting “course of empire” series? Have been waiting ever so patiently.