Perhaps best of all though... go on, surprise us and give us something we don't know we want to read! (I wouldn't have known I'd have liked your stuff if it was described to me. I stumbled across Atrocity Archives when recommended by Amazon because I'd been searching a lot of Lovecraftian titles. Then I tried Merchant Princes on the "same author" principle. Then I started reading your other stuff, on the same principle - not sure I'd have picked up those books if I'd seen them with someone else's name on them, and it'd have been my loss.)
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]]>a) "Glasshouse" is my worst-selling SF novel, in the US market. Selling a sequel would be challenging, although (1) it should be fairly obvious that Robin is a horrendously unreliable narrator and you can't take any of his/her observations as the truth, and (2) the end of the novel is the setup for a generation-ship-rediscovers-civilization sequel.
b) Daniel @144: if you want H. Beam Piper's paratime, just persist with the Merchant Princes. (I had a provisional plan for books 7-9, but Paul MacAuley already wrote something very like it -- let me commend "Cowboy Angels" to you: best spook/paratime novel in many years).
c) The off-screen universe of "Palimpsest" is almost infinitely bigger than the small corner (2.5 trillion years!) that pokes into view in the novella. I am talking Stapeldonian scope here. This is not space opera, this is time opera.
d) No more Eschaton, sorry.
]]>I can see how Glasshouse didn't make a splash; it's got a different feel to it than most of your other works. But a sequel would be well worth giving a whirl, at least to me.
Space opera, well done, is always welcome!
]]>Halting State and the Laundry series are great, but not in that same kind of way. Although I do need to read the Merchant Prince series now that everyone is saying they love them in the comments.
Something on the scale of Greg Bear's Aeon? DO IT.
]]>I originally intended for "Glasshouse" to be set in the far future of "Accelerando", but decided that on second thoughts, it would probably be best to cut it loose. So to date, "Accelerando" and "Glasshouse" are best viewed as stand-alone novels.
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