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Why do you wait so long to put out the different parts of the series you're publishing? Since Planet Stories is releasing a new book monthly, wouldn't it make more sense to put out first one book in a series, then another, then another back to back till the series ends? That's the way the pulp serials in the early twentieth century did things with great success.
I am on both sides of this argument. I want to read as many different aspects of these genres as I can, but I would like to finish certain story arcs and Stark is one of the better that Planet Stories has published. I have been reading Planet Stories books at a rate of close to a once/month level. I am fortunate to live in an Arizona city with decent bus service and I get to read for about 1 hour/day and have been reading these, F&SF and SciAm as well as the occasional other book.
Just keep them coming.
The pulps also had other stories in them, often a half-dozen or more, to appeal to a wider audience. Some series will be to the liking of some readers more than others, and I want to keep things interesting for everyone. Three months in a row featuring an author who is not your favorite is a better incentive to cancel a subscription than I'd prefer to offer at the moment.
I read the Skaith trilogy a couple of years ago in tattered second-hand paperbacks that still lurk somewhere on my book collection. I am really, really looking forward to getting shiny new copies with covers that don't suck. I think that the UK covers by Chris Achilleos were some of the worst peices of artwork ever to cover a SF/Fantasy novel - and they've got some tough competition.
If you haven't read any Leigh Brackett before, you must buy this book - she is truly one of the genre's forgotten greats.
I'm looking forward to a Planet Stories version of the Sword of Rhiannon one day - it's probably my personal favourite of her novels....
I'm looking forward to a Planet Stories version of the Sword of Rhiannon one day - it's probably my personal favourite of her novels....
"One day" may be sooner than you thought!
Hey there. Anybody who's read all three skaith novels that are here, do I need the hounds of skaith to enjoy the Ginger Star and the Revers of Skaith? I found those two cheap at a used book store and it would kinda suck if it's a trilogy and I need the second one to actually enjoy them since it would mean putting off the two i have until I can get this one.
Kessu: Sorry I didn't notice your query until now.
The Ginger Star is the first book in the trilogy, so you are ok to start with or without Hounds. I think you definitely _could_ read Reavers without Hounds, but you'll enjoy it more if you read them in order.
You may also want to check out Brackett's THE SECRET OF SINHARAT, also from Planet Stories. The two short novels in that book feature the same protagonist, the swordsman/adventurer Eric John Stark, before his journey to Skaith.
They are completely self-contained and are not necessary to enjoy or understand the Skaith Trilogy, but they're also a lot of fun!