Honor Harringtonová

Tak jsem to psychicky nevydržel a poslal dotaz na Polaris, kdy má co vyjít(hlavně Honorverse, Warhammer 40000 a Starfire) a tady je odpověď:
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Aa, tak jsem to nasel: ...
Ale dat cesky nazev knihy jako "Nas malo" by znelo hodne blbe. :-)

Pochod ke hvezdam snad jeste ne, ja nevim.
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Nedavno jsem mel s panem Svobodou velice prijemny patnactiminutovy hovor. Mj. vam (jako fanum) mam vyridit, abyste byli trpelivi, ze Koruna by mela vyjit na prelomu unora a brezna. A ty nove knizky jsou hrozne tluste a prelozit to neni jen tak.

Off topic: A jak se libilo SoS a AAC? Lidi porad rikaji, ze v poslednim Harry Potterovy umre spousta postav, to nevim, ja ho necetl, ale rekl bych, ze v tomto ohledu si s AAC nezada. :-)

Koruna otroků, Brož., 552 str., překlad Jiří Engliš, obálka David Mattingly, vyjde 3. března 2008

To je jeden víkend čekání na nový snipet BSRA, jeden pracovní týden a kousek. No to už se dá vydržet. :D

Tak malé zpoždění:
Weber, Flint: Koruna otroků
Brož., 552 str., překlad Jiří Engliš, obálka David Mattingly, cena 269 Kč, vyjde 12. března 2008

Podle Erica Flinta má vyjít Shadow of Saganami II v březnu 2009. CoS2 bude asi chvilku poté.

To je hrozny. Kdyz se takhle rekne, ze to vyjde za rok, tak to zni hrozne za dlouho. Nejhorsi na tom ovsem je, ze to ubehne jak voda a bude tu brezen 2009 a ja budu zase o rok starsi. :-)

Netusite nekdo jak to vypada u Walesu? Uz bych docela rad pokracovani Pochodu vnitrozemim. :-)

Subject: Re: A Few questions for David Weber
Group: Honorverse
Author: davidweber
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 10:12:34 GMT
Local: Thu, 29 May 2008 06:12:34 -0400

   Yes, I have plans to continue The Heirs of Empire series. There will someday be a minimum of two additional books in the series. One will began shortly before Mutineers' Moon and follow Nergal's company from the time they first go into hiding up to the Wars of the Roses. The other will finish up the confrontation with the Achuultani. At the moment, though, that series is at a fairly comfortable resting point, and I have other, more pressing commitments to deal with.


   Well, if there aren't any more Prince Roger books, Toni is going to be pretty upset with us, since we have open contracts on at least three more, I believe. Again, the problem here is that John and I have both been extraordinarily busy (and my own life has been plagued by one personal crisis after another which detracts from my writing efficiency) with our other projects.

   On the subject of audio books, I am a fan, if they are properly executed. That is a fairly important caveat, however. The only one of the Honorverse books which has been turned into an audio book was War of Honor, and it (in my opinion) was a disaster. I would never have chosen that book for the first audio book in the series for a lot of reasons, including its position in the series and the amount of back story needed to really understand what was going on.

   The second, and much more important objection to starting with that book, was that the printed book was 300,000-plus words long. It could have been shorter, and would have been if I'd had the time to do the final edit that I usually do and which usually squeezes somewhere in the vicinity of 30,000 words out of a manuscript of that size. In this instance, due to timing constraints because of the release date, there were several compromises in the production (as in author's portion of the production) process for the book. In addition, the audio book was very heavily abridged. My understanding (which may not be entirely accurate, but is certainly pretty close to what happened) is that the audio book production people were given a roughly 80,000-word script for the 300,000-plus-word manuscript. I was asked at one point if I would be interested in doing the abridgement (if you can call doing brain surgery with a chainsaw an "abridgement"), and I did my best to kill the project. No one had discussed it with me prior to its authorization, and I was horrified by the notion of trying to compress that much novel into that few words. In fact, I told them that I didn't see any way it could be done and that I wanted it clearly stated on the book sleeve that this was a "highly abridged" version of the novel. I didn't get that "highly abridged" warning, by the way. In the end, whoever did the abridgment probably dead just about the best job that could have been done under the size constraints imposed. Unfortunately, that amounted all too often to simply inserting the first sentence from each paragraph, which made it just a tad difficult to follow what the hell was going on.

   Having said that, the people who actually produced the book from the provided script did a superb job. My problem is that I can't listen to more than a very few minutes of it without my blood pressure going through the ceiling all over again. The voice talent was especially good, and they went much more than simply the extra mile to try and get planetary accents correct. The problem was that what they were given to work from was hopelessly compromise before they ever started work.

   An unabridged audio book is an entirely different proposition, but I don't write short books, which means that they run into lots and lots and lots and lots of disks. If I remember correctly, the audio book for Off Armageddon Reef runs to 50-plus disks, for example. I've been reasonably pleased with the Prince Roger audio books, which are unabridged, although I wasn't directly involved in their production in anyway. In fact, I didn't know they existed until the second one was already out. I suppose my only real problem with them (and it's a minor one) is that it can be very hard for the authors to get over "audio shock" when one of the characters' voices comes out sounding nothing at all like the one they've envisioned for the character. That happened with a couple of characters in this series, which is a little off-putting from my perspective as one of the authors, but probably is nowhere near as great a problem for the reader/listener. (By the way, the comment that the voices don't match is from my perspective, not John's. We never sat down and said "Now, this person has a deep voice with a Deep South accent," or "Eva Kosutic sounds like she was raised in Minneapolis," or anything like that, so I'm sure that both of us had different visualizations of what they actually sounded like.)

   Of course, there's another problem in asking any writer to evaluate an audio book version of his own work: he's already completely familiar with. Listening to the entire unabridged length of one of your own books can become more of a chore than a pleasure, since you already know all of the twists and turns of the plot. If a writer needs to reread a book because he's doing a sequel, it's usually faster and a lot more efficient for him to just go ahead and reread it rather than listening to it. And if I'm going to read for pleasure, to be perfectly honest I'd usually rather be reading someone else's book. I read my own work every day when I sat down at the computer. [G]

   As far as "other projects" are concerned, I'm quite busy enough at the moment with the ones I think most people already know about, thank you. In fact, I'm overcommitted, and I don't see that situation getting much better anytime in the next couple of years.

 

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On Wed, 28 May 2008 23:26:25 GMT Lunan wrote:
David,
i would like to take a few moments fo your time if i could, as this has been the most active i have seen you on the bar since i discovered it.

I'm curious if you have any plans to continue in The Heirs of Empire universe?
i picked up MM and with in 48 hours i had finished all 3 books, there is something in those stories that really grabs me

Will there be more coming in the Empire of Man series (i of course understand that it also depends on John Ringo)?

Are there any other projects that we as avid readers and fans should be aware of?(that you can tell us about anyway, like any movie news, any contracts to write an episode of stargate or other interesting things)

and lastly, i am very curious as to what my favorite authors think of the medium of audiobooks? i have found that diffrent authors have very diffrent feelings on them.
I love them and i reall with more then only the Empire of Man and OAR were in audio (WHY hasn't Honor been done yet, i'm sure any of the main audio producers [brilliance audio, booksontape, graphic audio, or the dozen others] would LOVE to get the contract for them)

and in closing,
Thank you for all the wonderful work You are up there with my 3 other favorite authors on the "buy this book the second it hits a store" list (the others being Elizabeth Moon, Jonathan Kellerman, and Anne McCaffrey)

Jinak, kdyz je tam Weber tak aktivni, co mu tam zkusit dat balik dotazu od "fanousku z Ceske republiky"? Treba by odpovedel. :-)

Dobrá zpráva je, že Wales má konečně nové stránky. Špatná, že zmizel edičák. A zatímco o Pochodu k moři je aspoň datum vydání 2008, tak o OAR tam není ani zmínka.

Subject: The World's Largest Snippet!
Group: Toni's Table
Author: Arnold Bailey
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:40:41 GMT
Local: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:40:41 -0400

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Popular Demand:
The World's
Largest Snippet!
A Brief History

It was late 2005 and David Weber's latest Honor Harrington novel had just been published. More than a hundred thousand people had read it and they were hungry for more.

There would be a teeny tiny wait.

Until now.

Late 2008. Rumors of a new Honorverse novel to be published in 2009 abounded. David's progress on Storm from the Shadows, the sequel to Shadow of Saganami, was followed with great glee. David, being the honest Baen writer that he is, wanted to help those rumors along.

So he snippeted. Snippeting being a technique invented by Jim Baen to torture, er, nurture Baen readers by sharing parts of the latest novels that haven't been released yet.

David, being David, does not do things in a small way. So he snippeted the whole freakin' quarter-million-word novel as it existed on September 2, 2008.

Okay, so that's not exactly what he had planned. He had just planned to let out a few chapters. So the "oopsie version," as it has come to be called in our usual dignified way, was pulled within a few hours of the post.

But not before a very few people downloaded it in all good faith. And proceeded to read it. And proceeded to gloat in front of the rest of us.

Lamentations and wailings for parity commenced. And so we let everyone know that the version that got released really was not the final version. Several rounds of revisions by the author have been made since, and the copy edit and continuity check is still in progress. We really aren't quite ready to let the book out as an official eARC (i.e. electronic advanced reader copy); we want to send it out to the world all prettied up.

But the lamentations from the faithful did not cease.

And so, we—the publisher, author of the book, and webmaster—bring to you:
The Plan ™

For those who want it—and we stress this is an early, un-edited, incomplete version—we will sell the "oopsie" now for $10. We are not asking you to buy this version, we do not recommend you buy this version, but if you gotta have it, come and get it.

In about 6 weeks, when all the revisions and edits are in, we will make available for the usual $15 the official eARC, which will get you both the "final" and "oopsie" versions—extra computer memory sold separately. If you bought the "oopsie" version, you'll be able to get the official eARC for only $12.

If you buy the Webscription month that contains Storm from the Shadows, March 2009, you will get access to all three versions, if you want 'em. If you buy the novel as a solo ebook, you get access to all three versions, if you want 'em.

And so let there be peace in the valley. Until the next snippet.

—Toni Weisskopf

Dobrý den,

mám na Vás dotaz ohledně edičního plánu, ale prvně Vám chci pochválit vzhled a přehlednost Vašich nových webových stránek, protože můj dotaz s nimi souvisí. Konkrétně by mě zajímalo, jestli se i na těchto nových objeví Váš ediční plán, který býval dostupný na těch starých. Popřípadě jestli se k němu dá dostat nějakou jinou cestou.

Předem velice děkuji za odpověď.

S pozdravem a přáním hezkého dne,

Petr Svoboda

Dobrý den!

Letošní rok došlo nejen ke změně e-shopu ale i ke stěhování obchodu s Táborské ulice a také k odchodu zaměstnanců vydavatelství. Kvůli těmto změnám má vydávání nových titulů velké zpoždění. Momentálně nevíme které tituly a kdy se nám podaří vydat a je možné že některé projekty budeme muset zastavit úplně.
Nový ediční plán zatím neexistuje. Letos se chystáme vydat reedici hadí ságy 3. a 4. a novinku Zloba šíleného boha od Reimonda Feista. Pokračování Pochodu vnitrozemím (Pochod k moři) od Davida Webbera a Johna Ringa. A nakonec Čelo bouře taktéž od Johna Ringa

S pozdravem

Jan Andrle
Knihkupectví Wales
Bělehradská 8
140 00 Praha 4
Tel./fax. +240 241 741 952
http://www.wales.cz/
wales@volny.cz

Shadow of Saganami vyjde v Polarisu koncem tohoto roku. Tady je popis:

Weber, David: Stín Sagamiho
Hvězdné království Mantichora opět válčí s republikou Havenem. Studenti posledního ročníku Akademie Královského mantichorského námořnictva odcházejí po vyřazení přímo do žáru boje.
Tedy kromě kadetů odvelených na těžký křižník HMS Hexapuma. Ti jsou posláni do hvězdokupy Talbott, do závětří daleko od fronty, aby podporovali mírové začlenění hvězdokupy do Hvězdného království na základě svobodné vůle jejích občanů vyjádřené v referendu. Takové nudné vyhlídky nejsou právě to, co by žáci Honor Harringtonové očekávali.
Jenže věci nejsou tak klidné a jednoduché, jak se zdají. Pirátům, teroristům, genetickým otrokářům, pašerákům zbraní, lokálním politickým odpůrcům, arogantním byrokratům Solárního svazu i hrabivým obchodním korporacím stojí v cestě jenom Hexapuma, její válkou unavený kapitán a žáci Honor Harringtonové. Oporou jim je jenom tradice Edwarda Saganamiho. Tradice, která od královských důstojníků někdy vyžaduje čelit nepředstavitelné přesile... a zemřít v boji.
Brož., 600 str., překlad Jiří Engliš, obálka David Mattingly, vyjde na konci roku 2008

Weber, David: Ve stopách Saganamiho
Hvězdné království Mantichora opět válčí s republikou Havenem. Studenti posledního ročníku Akademie Královského mantichorského námořnictva odcházejí po vyřazení přímo do žáru boje.
Tedy kromě kadetů odvelených na těžký křižník HMS Hexapuma. Ti jsou posláni do hvězdokupy Talbott, do závětří daleko od fronty, aby podporovali mírové začlenění hvězdokupy do Hvězdného království na základě svobodné vůle jejích občanů vyjádřené v referendu. Takové nudné vyhlídky nejsou právě to, co by žáci Honor Harringtonové očekávali.
Jenže věci nejsou tak klidné a jednoduché, jak se zdají. Pirátům, teroristům, genetickým otrokářům, pašerákům zbraní, lokálním politickým odpůrcům, arogantním byrokratům Solárního svazu i hrabivým obchodním korporacím stojí v cestě jenom Hexapuma, její válkou unavený kapitán a žáci Honor Harringtonové. Oporou jim je jenom tradice Edwarda Saganamiho. Tradice, která od královských důstojníků někdy vyžaduje čelit nepředstavitelné přesile... a zemřít v boji.
Brož., 600 str., překlad Jiří Engliš, obálka David Mattingly, vyjde v lednu 2009

Subject: "Mission of Honor" limited signed run to be made available
Group: Honorverse
Author: Leon Jester
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:24:02 GMT
Local: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:24:02 -0500

 Per an e-mail from Uncle Timmy, the Chairman of LibertyCon in Chattanooga, TN:

ARE YOU GOING TO CHATTACON? IF SO, HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO GET AN ADVAMCED COPY OF THE MANUSCRIPT OF THE 12TH HONOR HARRINGTON NOVEL, “MISSION OF HONOR”?

From: Tim Bolgeo

Please forgive me, but I have to tell you about what one of my crazy friends is going to be doing at Chattacon. A little known professional writer by the name of David M. Weber has decided to have a little fun at Chattacon this year where he will be one of the Literary Guests of Honor.

According to Sharon Weber, SHE WHO MUST BE OBEYED in GREENVILLE (SWMBOiG), and David, they have decided to let some of the people attending Chattacon in on a rare treat. David will make 20 copies of his new Honor Harrington Novel, “Mission of Honor” that will be published in late 2009 or early 2010. Each of these advanced copies will be signed and numbered by the author and ten of them will be put into the Art Show at Chattacon for sale.

SWMBOiG said that at first, they were going to sell them at her huckster table at Chattacon where she will be selling some of her handmade scarves and other items. But they decided to put them in the Art Show so that more people would be able to take a good look at them and join in the fun.

David let me know that he talked about doing this with his Publisher, Toni K. Weissfopf of Baen Books, and that Toni agreed that it was OK. As a matter of fact, these copies will be sold before the Advanced Reader Copy (ARC) is available on the Baen Website in the electronic format.

One other point that I know about. Both David and Sharon were concerned that someone would come in an buy all 10 of them and that they would put them up on EBay. I suggested that they make a condition of sale on the items that only one copy can be purchased and that no one would be allowed to purchase multiple copies.

BTW, the other 10 will be put in the Art Show at ConDFW where David will be GOH later in the year.

Curmudgeon
aka Brother Shotgun of Enlightened Compassion

GO WOLFPACK!

Jak jsem psal už kdysi dřív: podle informací na Baru už opravdu byly vydraženy první ARC Mission of Honor. Takže někteří štastlivci to už možná mají přečtené... By mě zajímalo, jestli jim to (bude dávat)/(dává) smysl i bez návaznosti na CoS2.

... Az na to ze mi Helen v jeden kapitole prakticky vykecala celej dej CoW :D

Kniha vyjde 5.2.2009. Objednávat si ji však můžete již nyní.

Druhorozený princ Roger MacClictock byl rozmazlený, nezodpovědný spratek bez šance na kariéru ve stopách své matky Alexandry VII, císařovny Lidstva...

??? Nema nahodou starsiho bratra a sestru? A neni nahodou narozen jako treti v poradi?

Rovněž Wales by měl vydat pokračování Chorálu před bitvou (ve dvou svazcích a každý o stejné velikosti jako CHPB), ale u nich je to vždy věštění s křišťálové koule.

NJ on je hollt gust front dost silena bichle, ale taky to uz zacina byt hodne drsne pro lidi (BTW doufam ze ceska verze bude obsahovat mapy, jinak si ke cteni pustit google earth aby se clovek trochu orientoval).

no ale ta anotace je trochu zmatená ...

Product Description
As the slavemasters of Mesa plot against the Star Empire of Mantiocore and newly liberated slave planet of Torch, Anton Zilwicki and notorious Havenite secret agent Cachat set off on a dangerous mission to uncover the truth concerning a wave of mysterious assassinations that have been launched against  Manticore and Torch. Most people are sure that the Republice of Haven is behind the assassinations, but Zilwick and Chachat suspect others of being the guilty party.

Queen Berry of Torch was one of the targets of the unknown assassins. The former head of the Ballroom slave liberation organiztion, Jeremy X-now one of Torch's top officals, but still considered by many the most dangerous terrorist in the galaxy-calls in some past favors owed to him. In reponse, a security officer from Beowulf arrives in bodyguards and the security officer's own growning attachment to her.

Meanwhile, powerful forces in the Solarian League are maneuvering against each other to gain the upper hand in whay they all expect to be an explosive crisis that threatens the very existence of the League itself.

tomu  v té kurzivě nějak nechápu  :-[

Tak jsem zase jednou kouknul na Polaris ( http://polarissf.cz/souborPOLAR/polaris.htm ), a mají tam aktualizovanou anotaci, českou obálku a info 872 stránek, takže to zase bude pěknej macek. Bohužel chybí datum vydání, ale to bývá u Polarisu stejně orientační, takže se nemusíme zbytečně těšit.

Pokud vím, tak Polaris zatím žádnou z knih Davida Webera nevydal v několika dílech, jako to dělá Návrat s Kolem času.
Doufejme, že budou tuto pro nás tak příjemnou tradici i nadále dodržovat.

Weber, David: Za každou cenu
Válka s republikou Haven znovu začala… pro Hvězdné království Mantichory katastrofálně.
Amirál lady dame Honor Harringtonová, místodržící a vévodkyně z Harringtonu, jediná vítězná spojenecká velitelka počáteční fáze nové války, byla povolána ze soustavy Sidemore, aby velela Osmé flotile. Každý ví, že Osmá flotila je základní obranná jednotka Aliance, což z ní dělá přirozené místo pro ženu, kterou media nazvala ‚Salamandrem‘. Ale co většina veřejnosti neví je fakt, že Hvězdné království a jeho spojenci nejenom že čelí značné přesile, ale že se dá čekat, že se to bude postupně ještě zhoršovat. Úkolem Osmé flotily je udělat něco, aby nepřítel nerozdrtil Alianci dřív, než Hvězdné království bude mít šanci dosáhnout strategické rovnováhy. Toho nelze dosáhnout lacino. Honor Harringtonová bude muset přijmout děsivou zodpovědnost za případné ztráty a k tomu se ještě vypořádat s převratnými změnami ve svém osobním a společenském životě.
Alternativou ke splnění jejího úkolu je drtivá, avšak v tomto případě může být i cena vítězství strašlivá.
Brož., 872 str., překlad Jiří Engliš, obálka David Mattingly

Na Amazonu se objevila nabídka na A Mighty Fortress čtvrté pokračování Safehold. Vyjít v Americe by měla někdy koncem března 2010. Ve Spojeném království je datum vydání stanoveno na 13. dubna. Jsem zvědavý, zda to bude stejné jako s By Heresies Distressed, kterou vydali o pořádný kus dříve. Už teď se těším.

Na to není co říct, pouze čekat.  Už aby už byl červenec!  Myslíte, že Eric Flint uveřejní nějaké ukázky?

Sakra, ty ted umíš člověka povzbudit.

Weber, David a Flint, Eric: Pochodeň svobody
Brož., 450 str., obálka David Mattingly, překlad J. Engliš, vyjde koncem roku 2010

V lednu budou druhé Vánoce :)

Osobně si myslím, že je lepší když vyjde tohle před StfS, protože StfS lépe předchází MoH.

No, a příští rok by mohly pokračovat zbývajícími dvěma knížkami.

To jsou jen drobnosti. Já osobně jsem si všiml, že jen zaměnil kapitána Hallovou za Halla, ale víc nic. Rozhodně nejde o tak kritickou chybu jako přeložit "shields" jako "kryty" místo "štíty"...

davidweber1: "A Mighty Fortress" is debuting at number 9 on the New York Times bestseller list! Now if they can just get the Kindle edition fixed!

McGeekJQ -> davidweber1: Enjoyed "A mighty fortress" very much - can't wait for the next!

davidweber1 -> McGeekJQ: Thank you. The 5th installation is yet to be named, but I am hoping to see it on the shelves by Spring or Summer 2011.

70,000 words into the latest Honorverse installment. Did a good night's work, I'm heading to bed....*Sleeeeeep* [3:26 PM Jun 15th  via web]

Ten chlap je opravdu čaroděj. Jen houšť a větší kapky.

Prosím vysvětli nám méně chápavým pojem Tajný projekt.
Má to něco společného s DW?