David Gerrold Says The NextChtorrBook Will Be Finished In September

bury The tip of Winter ! There ’s one book that fans have been awaiting fervently , for twelvemonth , now — and it ’s finally arrive . David Gerrold tells io9 that A Method For Madness , the fifth book in his Chtorr series , will be done in a couple of calendar month .

The Chtorr serial , which order of an invasion of Earth by an alien ecosystem that transforms the planet , has been on hold since 1993 , when the fourth Good Book , A Season for Slaughter , was published . ( The first three book , A topic for Men , A Day For eternal damnation , and A cult for Revenge , come out in fairly quick order in the 1980s . ) But now , it ’s been over 20 years since Gerrold leave us with a huge cliffhanger .

Fans bug out to get their hopes up when they understand A Method for Madness listed as coming out in September , according toBarnes and Nobleand afewothersites . So we checked with Gerrold and he said that the book wo n’t be bring out in September , but “ it will be finish up by then . ” Is this the final book in the Chtorr serial ? Nope , says Gerrold—“there are seven books in this trilogy . ”

So what last allow Gerrold to get this Word of God done , after 22 years of being sting ? Check out this video from a convention last month , where he explain that he ’s had 250,000 Holy Writ of this book finished for a farseeing , long time . But there were just a handful of scenes ( between seven and 10 ) that he could n’t crack . “ I did n’t even have it away what order they had to occur in , I had a vague idea . ” He finally decided to do what Harry Harrison call “ shitting bricks , ” where you put words down as fast as you’re able to — and then something come home . Large chunks of the Quran are written in “ first - soul psychotic , ” but he did n’t want to write those scenes that style . And then he figured out a way to write those scenes clearly and cleanly . And then all of the need , and the chain of events lessen into blank space .

So now you’re able to start ask when the 6th and 7th books in the serial publication are coming out ! [ h / t Thomas ]

Top image : A Matter for Men by Boris Vallejo

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