Asyouknowbob, the mass market paperback edition of Ghost Ship will ship on July 31 (Hey, that’s Steve’s birthday! And also? Next Tuesday!).
Now, I know that lots of people read Ghost Ship a thousand years ago, internet-time, as an eArc, and still more snabbled it up in hardcover last August. However, there are some people who wait for the mass market, and my further remarks are mostly for them — though all you early adopters can listen in, if you want.
There is some prep work for Ghost Ship. It’s not necessary prep — if you’ve been following along the novels, you’ll do just fine moving from Saltation to Ghost Ship. However, there are a couple short stories that may deepen your enjoyment — or at least your understanding of certain events touched on in the novel. And, with a whole week left before your book ships, these morsels might soothe your hunger pangs.
The prep stories are: Hidden Resources, Moon on the Hill, Prodigal Son, and (to a lesser degree) Fighting Chance. These four stories are available, DRM-free, and in the format of your choice, in echapbooks Halfling Moon, and Allies.
Here are your links:
Allies: Adventures in the Liaden Universe® No. 12
Includes: “Fighting Chance,” and “Prodigal Son”
|Kindle| |Nook| |Smashwords|
Halfling Moon: Adventures in the Liaden Universe® No. 16
Includes: “Hidden Resources,” and “Moon on the Hill”
|Kindle| |Nook| |Smashwords|
Edited to Add:
Steve points out that Intelligent Design may also be of interest. Your links are below:
Legacy Systems: Adventures in the Liaden Universe® No. 19
Includes novelettes “Intelligent Design,” and “The Space at Tinsori Light”
|Kindle| |Nook| |Smashwords|
And, here’s a link to Pinbeam Books, in case you’d like to check out the other chapbooks and audiobook on offer.
Enjoy
Any chance of there being a unibus release of adventures 13-18 (or whatever range makes sense) soon?
(I notice Baen still lists SRM as being the publisher of the unibus volumes, by the way, and they have a page for SRM with a broken link to korval.com/srmcat2.htm.)
Baen will be publishing two collections, which will include the Adventures in the Liaden Universe(R) chapbooks 1-17. I’m not sure when those will be published.
Broken links on the Baen site need to be reported to the Baen webmaster, thanks.