If Paizo is able to do this, you will all be my heroes and I will sing your praises from the mountaintops. I'm lucky enough to have bought a copy of Gods of Darkness (The Complete Novels) when it was still on shelves. Alas, I missed my opportunity to purchase The Midnight Sun (Complete Short Stories), which now averages about $75 for a used copy.
I agree. The Kane stories rock. The novel in particular was hard to locate and VERY expensive. If Paizo can pull this off it'd be a real coup IMO. I think if I had to pick three seminal authors that shaped the S&S sub genre, they'd be: Howard, Leiber & Wagner.
If Paizo is able to do this, you will all be my heroes and I will sing your praises from the mountaintops. I'm lucky enough to have bought a copy of Gods of Darkness (The Complete Novels) when it was still on shelves. Alas, I missed my opportunity to purchase The Midnight Sun (Complete Short Stories), which now averages about $75 for a used copy.
I went the opposite way. I bought a copy of Midnight Sun from the Science Fiction Book Club for a relatively low price but couldn't afford Gods of Darkness until it was too late. Fortunately, I have old paperback copies of Bloodstone and Darkness Weaves. I'll sing Paizo's praises too if they can help me complete my collection.
you lot will hate this!...i thought wagner's kane was so tediously ordinary that i gave the two books i had to st.vincent de paul...i can't even remember the names (and it was only like six months ago)...i cringe every time i hear this guy's name mentioned in the same breath as robert howard!!!
you lot will hate this!...i thought wagner's kane was so tediously ordinary that i gave the two books i had to st.vincent de paul...i can't even remember the names (and it was only like six months ago)...i cringe every time i hear this guy's name mentioned in the same breath as robert howard!!!
You should hate yourself, you could have sold those books now for good beer money. :)
We could burn you at the stake using piles of Silverheart, heretic.
:)
you lot will hate this!...i thought wagner's kane was so tediously ordinary that i gave the two books i had to st.vincent de paul...i can't even remember the names (and it was only like six months ago)...i cringe every time i hear this guy's name mentioned in the same breath as robert howard!!!You should hate yourself, you could have sold those books now for good beer money. :)
We could burn you at the stake using piles of Silverheart, heretic.
:)
i've given up beer but if people are paying 75 bucks for the bloody things i do hate myself!!...and you can't kill lady rose off that easily,she will haunt you...not to mention max silverskin!
you lot will hate this!...i thought wagner's kane was so tediously ordinary that i gave the two books i had to st.vincent de paul...i can't even remember the names (and it was only like six months ago)...i cringe every time i hear this guy's name mentioned in the same breath as robert howard!!!
Meh, everyone has their own tastes, why hate a person for them? Just take it as an object lesson to research going rates on old books before you get rid of them...never know what people are paying good money for.
you lot will hate this!...i thought wagner's kane was so tediously ordinary that i gave the two books i had to st.vincent de paul...i can't even remember the names (and it was only like six months ago)...i cringe every time i hear this guy's name mentioned in the same breath as robert howard!!!Meh, everyone has their own tastes, why hate a person for them? Just take it as an object lesson to research going rates on old books before you get rid of them...never know what people are paying good money for.
next time i find one for a couple of bucks i'll let you know and you can have it for the postage!
next time i find one for a couple of bucks i'll let you know and you can have it for the postage!
Much appreciated, thank you kindly.
Any update on the possibility of getting the Kane stories?
Thread necromancy in progress.
Please please please let this happen someday! Planet Stories, Kane, two great tastes that taste great together!
Hi Erik
If you ever publish the KEW "Kane" novels and stories and you end up needing a kidney, I'll give you one of mine (maybe LOL).
These stories need to be reprinted!!
They have a HUGE following!
Follow the paperback market on Ebay and you'll see that these have one of the highest re-sell prices for paperbacks. And it's most likely because folks want to read these titles and not just bag and save them like other titles.
Even beat up "reading" copies bring good prices!
I don't need to tell you how to do your job, but I bet you would have instant best sellers on your hands if you brought this series back out!
Serious question..
When you choose novels/stories to reprint, do you try to figure out/calculate how many copies a particular title sells?
And if so, how do you do it? Is it purely a gut feeling kind of thing?
Take care and thank you so very much for bringing back so many wonderful
titles!!
Doug
p.s.
Here are some KEW & Kane links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Edward_Wagner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kane_%28fantasy%29
http://www.karledwardwagner.org/
My understanding is that the Wagner estate is hoping to try and get a movie deal out of the Kane stories.
Because of this they have not been as responsive to companies looking at reprinting the original stories.
It would seem to be a case of the owners holding out for the most lucrative deal they can get.