I have a question about the timeline of Sithi/Norn history in Osten Ard. I finished Heart of what was Lost a few days ago. I certainly mean it to feel as though it’s a seamless whole. ![]() I’m glad it seems to belong with the early stuff. And you’ll see a LOT of the Norns and Nakkiga in the new books. I took the comparatively few things I knew about the Norns when I wrote the first books and have added/expanded quite a bit during the writing of these new ones. Of the Norns and their undying queen Utuk’ku, Williams writes: The most clever term “Nornithology” has been coined by one reader. I think it’s possible that there may be a Michael-Moorcock-style multiverse underlying all my books, but I’ve never consciously tried to link them all together.Ĭurious readers asked quite a lot about the Norns, the embittered fair folk in the Osten Ard novels. Most intriguingly, Williams was asked if he has any plans to link Osten Ard, the world of the “Memory, Sorrow and Thorn” books, to the Xand/Eion world in “Shadowmarch”, with a reader asking “Are there any Easter eggs/connections between the worlds or Osten Ard and Shadowmarch?”Īlthough the worlds of Xand/Eion and Osten Ard have been considered separate, and there has been nothing to link them together besides some small similarities (strange properties of mirrors, for example), Williams, interestingly enough, did not rule this out:įunny, I was just thinking about this the other day - connections between the two worlds. I’ve had a couple of tentative ideas over the years, and now that I’ve found I can live with going back to Osten Ard, I’ll probably be more open to revisiting some of the other creations as well. I may come up with ideas for stories set in some of my other worlds, and if I do, I’ll probably write them. Like me.Īs I said elsewhere on the AMA, I never start something by where it takes place (like a previous world of mine) only with a story I want to tell. ![]() Half my original readers are probably dead and the rest are drooling. I’d be in trouble if I did, since I’m only now returning to Osten Ard, thirty years later. I have never written anything except the Bobby Dollar books with the idea of the story being open-ended. ![]() One question asked was (minor spoilers): “Will we eventually find out what Ayaminu’s agenda was?”Ayaminu is one of the Gardenborn characters who appears in The Heart of What Was Lost. Feel free to leave a question or subpoena for me ahead of time, or to join me online.Īmong the gems asked during the Reddit interview were questions regarding the new upcoming “The Last King of Osten Ard” novels, as well as questions regarding characters in The Heart of What Was Lost, the new bridge novel which was just published this month. I will be answering questions about the original series AND the new books live on Friday, January 27th, 2017 at 2:30 PM ET / 11:30 AM PT. (I also thought about calling the first books “Osten Ard Classic” and the current series “New Osten Ard” or even “Osten Ard Zero”, until various soft drink company lawsuits got in the way. The entire series will be called “The Last King Of Osten Ard”, because that’s what fantasy fiction needs - MORE LONG TITLES. I have returned to the world of Osten Ard, first introduced in the now impossibly ancient days of the late 1980s, in THE DRAGONBONE CHAIR, first book of the “Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn” series (also known as, “Those really, really, REALLY long books by that Williams guy.”) Just published is a short introductory novel - really a bridge between the end of the first series and some of the characters who will appear in the new books - the slender volume, THE HEART OF WHAT WAS LOST ( ) which will be followed by THE WITCHWOOD CROWN (a more typical Tad shelf-buster) in June. Williams began his AMA interview in inimitable fashion: ![]() Egendary Science Fiction and Fantasy author Tad Williams held an “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) interview today on forum website Reddit.Williams revealed several details about his upcoming sequel to “Memory, Sorrow and Thorn”, The Witchwood Crown.
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