![]() So on one level it’s a fantasy - it’s about angels, it’s about demons, it’s about all that stuff. But then things begin to get stranger, and other odd things happen in the Cold War between heaven and hell, and he winds up in a lot deeper than he had expected. The main character, Bobby Dollar, is an earth-bound angel who’s part of the process of earthly souls being judged after the people die. Tad Williams: The initial idea was about the similar nature between the standard version of heaven versus hell - the classic, Western, Judeo-Christian idea that has developed - and the way that the Cold War was actually run, where the whole thing was sort of happening under the surface and all of the struggle was to an extent not noticed by most people most of the time. Wired: Tell us about your new book The Dirty Streets of Heaven. Or listen to the interview in Episode 69 of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast (above), which also features a panel discussion between hosts John Joseph Adams and David Barr Kirtley and guest geek Genevieve Valentine about angels and heaven in fantasy and science fiction. Read our complete interview with Tad Williams below, in which he discusses his new novel, The Dirty Streets of Heaven, a noir mystery about an earth-bound angel who gets caught up in a plot involving missing souls. “To Peter’s great credit, and probably the thing that will keep me out of hell for this one, he immediately forgave me and laughed and thought it was a really good idea,” says Williams. It was years before Williams finally fessed up. He became good friends with editor Betsy Wollheim and her husband, Peter, who’d been the one to laboriously photocopy the 500-page manuscript. The publisher ended up buying the book, and is still Williams’ publisher 30 years later. The Navigator's Children is expected to follow in late 2022 or early 2023 (the two books were originally one volume but have been split in two for publication due to length).“I was also hoping like hell that they didn’t know that basically California was in the middle of an eight-year drought, and that there’s almost no such thing as basements in California,” says Williams in this week’s episode of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast. Into the Narrowdark is currently scheduled for publication on 12 July 2022. Seeing the same penny-pinching attitude applied to one of DAW's historically biggest-selling authors (Williams has sold over 17 million books) is quite strange. #TAD WILLIAMS OTHERLAND ART SERIES#The author will now be completing that series with the help of her fans via Patreon. Similar financial restrictions meant that DAW were forced to drop Michelle West's Essalieyan universe series in August. The books are published by DAW Books, who are editorially independent but distributed by Penguin Random House, who also have a say in the company's financial affairs. Sweet passed away whilst working on the final Wheel of Time cover, Whelan was the only choice to step in and replace him. Whelan has also created artwork for the likes of Brandon Sanderson, Melanie Rawn, Anne McCaffrey, C.S. Whelan's artwork adorned The Witchwood Crown and Empire of Grass, but the remaining two books in the series, Into the Narrowdark and The Navigator's Children, will have new cover art from an as-yet unannounced artist. Whelan is one of the highest-regarded artists working in science fiction and fantasy, and his critically-acclaimed cover art has adorned all of Tad Williams's Memory, Sorrow and Thorn books so far, as well as the first two volumes of the Last King of Osten Ard sequel series. In a bizarre move, Penguin Random House has decided to go with a different cover artist for future Tad Williams books, apparently being unwilling to stump up the money for further covers from acclaimed artist Michael Whelan. ![]()
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