There have been multiple requests for Diviner’s Bow’s lineage.
I live to serve — so here we go:
Diviner’s Bow is the Direct Sequel to 2024’s Ribbon Dance (available electronically and in hardcover from Your Favorite Vendor. Audio rights have been placed with Tantor, who have said Nothing to this author regarding a pub date.), to be published electronically and in hardcover on April 1, 2025.
Digging Deeper, this is the Trade Arc:
Conflict of Honors (1988)
Alliance of Equals (2016)
Trader’s Leap (2020)
Ribbon Dance (2024)
Diviner’s Bow (2025)
Novel to Be Named Later (2027)
Going Even Deeper, this is the Padi yos’Galan Arc:
Alliance of Equals
Trader’s Leap
Ribbon Dance
Diviner’s Bow
And! One more level in, just for fun, this is the Redlands Arc:
Trader’s Leap
Ribbon Dance
Diviner’s Bow
Note that the above three titles were meant to describe a complete set of moves: leap, dance, bow.
All titles listed above are published by Baen Books, with the exception of the 1988 edition of Conflict of Honors (since republished many times by multiple publisher, including Baen).
Leap, Dance, Bow! I love it!
Thank you for this (and I’m jazzed that there’s another one in the near/far future).
Thanks so much, my birthday is April 1st – so a real gift instead of usual fools day gifts. ?
Thank you for this. I eagerly await Diviner’s Bow. As a prelude to the Redlands Arc, readers may also find the two short stories Preferred Seating and Ambient Conditions helpful. And fun! They are collected in Constellation volume 5.
Ah! So, the authors work is done!
Now it’s time for impatient readers to wander over to Baen’s Bar and start begging Madame Publisher for the E-Arc!
I’m glad you mentioned the dance/movement symmetry in the titles because my brain wants to read this as the kind of bow you shoot an arrow with, but bowing as part of a dance makes much more sense!
^^ What Deb said. I was so confused where archery fit in. Now I know. ????
Now I’m down the rabbit hole, going back to re-read all the Constellations! Been missing Moonhawk and Lute!
You are amazing!! Love Leap, Dance, Bow. Wow!! So thrilled!
I was also confused about the bow, but I thought it was like a rainbow-bow, somehow referencing the Talents (diviners?) and colors (especially the cover art!) of Ribbon Dance, and maybe somehow Padi’s ribbon from/with Tekelia.