Here's hoping that he wasn't just being facetious. Still, given how long we've waited on official translations of the books already written, it would probably take a decade or more before we would see it in English, even if true.
Thankfully, we have our wonderful community fan translations to tide us over:
Community Fan Translations
Thankfully, we have our wonderful community fan translations to tide us over:
Community Fan Translations
I agreevermeer said:
I haven't gotten far with the novels yet, but I do really enjoy the short stories and it would be great to have more of them.@Corylea and JJavier
Agree with you both. I have the impression that Sapkowski is allured by the success of the game series (this should be gratifying to CDP ).
Anyway, sometimes it happens to me like McKinley said, the creative process has its own wierdie way.
@Ward Dragon
Ah yes, you may be right. I didn't think to a prequel, but it might be in fact
Oh wait... it's Star wars flop shadow
More likely Stephen King did in the beginning...but now it's totally trashy
Agree with you both. I have the impression that Sapkowski is allured by the success of the game series (this should be gratifying to CDP
).Anyway, sometimes it happens to me like McKinley said, the creative process has its own wierdie way.
@Ward Dragon
Ah yes, you may be right. I didn't think to a prequel, but it might be in fact
Oh wait... it's Star wars flop shadow
^This absolutly. I've loved deeply The Sword of Destiny and I think Sapkowski gives his very best in short stories.vermeer said:
More likely Stephen King did in the beginning...
Sapkowski considers a resumption of the Geralt Saga? :woot: Some time ago I read sth like that in a forum or so, at least nothing official. Seems to be true
If he really wants to write an other novel / short story volume an other ressurecting has to be very exceptional because CDPR already took this idea and if the author uses the same idea it looks a bit ... uninspired
And a continuation only about Eskel and Lambert isn't a proper Witcher (Geralt) sequel for me
We have such a great publishing house in my country. All Witcher books are translated and in March this year we will have "Something ends, something begins" in German too
That would be fantastic when Sapkowski continues the CDPR's story or at least refers to the events.secondchildren said:
If he really wants to write an other novel / short story volume an other ressurecting has to be very exceptional because CDPR already took this idea and if the author uses the same idea it looks a bit ... uninspired
And a continuation only about Eskel and Lambert isn't a proper Witcher (Geralt) sequel for me
A decade? Sad but true. I really don't understand what impedes the English translations whereas in other countries the translations went smoothly.secondchildren said:
We have such a great publishing house in my country. All Witcher books are translated and in March this year we will have "Something ends, something begins" in German too
Sorry, I didn't mean it like thatsecondchildren said:@Ward Dragon
Ah yes, you may be right. I didn't think to a prequel, but it might be in fact
Oh wait... it's Star wars flop shadow
I was thinking that it might be a completely unrelated story (or collection of short stories) which takes place before the novels but isn't connected to them. The Star Wars prequels were indeed terrible, and I think a large part of the reason was due to the end already being written before the movies even started production. There wasn't really any creative freedom. It was already predetermined how things had to turn out, so there wasn't any room to take the story in a different direction if it started to evolve on its own. A lot of the events in the movies seemed kind of contrived, like they didn't really know how to get where they were supposed to be so they just fudged it and hoped the audience wouldn't analyze it too closely.
But back to the Witcher, even if a new book takes place earlier in the timeline, it could have a self-contained story and not necessarily lead up to any of the events that we've already seen. Therefore it could still be fresh, new and interesting
This sounds perfect.WardDragon said:But back to the Witcher, even if a new book takes place earlier in the timeline, it could have a self-contained story and not necessarily lead up to any of the events that we've already seen. Therefore it could still be fresh, new and interesting
I remember in the 2nd short story volume in one of the "Voice of reason" narrations... When his education / Trial of the grasses was finished Geralt left Kaer Morhen and was convinced everybody welcomes a Witcher's help.
The first encounter was a disappointment. He met a farmer who was with his daughter on the way to *I don't remember*. They were attacked by bandits who raped the young girl and forced the father to watch this. Geralt was upset and slaughtered the entire gang. There was blood everywhere, even the Witcher was covered with blood. Then he helped the girl to get up from the ground. When she saw the blood-soaked Witcher she screamed horribly and ran away. He freed the pinioned father who got very angry and yelled Geralt has scarred his daughter to death. He grabbed his odds and ends and left.
I think this has lots of potential for a novel
It would be nice to have more witcher books and I would like if Mr. Saplowski doesn't contradict or invalidates the videogames by CDPR.
I'm lucky that all witcher books are published in my country...... not only that, they've been published by 2 different houses at the same time, Bibliopolis and Alamunt, the former has a worse quality paper and uglier covers.... Alamunt's have a different character per cover, I bought the first 2 by Bibliopolis before I learnt about the other, so I missed the covers with Geralt and Yennefer. Unfortunately I don't like the translation very much..... and both editions share it.
I'm lucky that all witcher books are published in my country...... not only that, they've been published by 2 different houses at the same time, Bibliopolis and Alamunt, the former has a worse quality paper and uglier covers.... Alamunt's have a different character per cover, I bought the first 2 by Bibliopolis before I learnt about the other, so I missed the covers with Geralt and Yennefer. Unfortunately I don't like the translation very much..... and both editions share it.
But then the title "Witcher" novel isn't meeting. Okay, Ciri had a Witcher's education except the trial of the grasses but did she become a Witcher(-ress?)?.
But apart from that, yes I would read it because I'm curious to know how her life is going on.
But apart from that, yes I would read it because I'm curious to know how her life is going on.
w00t here we have the story for a stand alone game after Geralts story is completed,just wishful thinking
Interesting news. Thanks for posting itnocny said:
I'm quite happy to hear that. A short story collection would have been cool, but I also like the idea of another novel that takes place in the Witcher world but isn't directly connected to any of the previous stories.
The best news of 2012 (apart from SOPA being dropped) so far. I don't care if it's prequel, sequel or a separate story - canon is canon and I am perfectly capable of separating RED's version from it and enjoy both, though the canon one more. I just hope Sapkowski will focus on characters he already introduced, as they are not only extremely interesting and memorable, but also worth having their background story revealed. Dijkstra, I am speaking about you. I would also love to read even one chapter dedicated to history and culture of his world, just like he wrote about Redania and Kovir in the fourth book.
But if the new book is going to be "absolutely separate" from the saga, then I'm afraid Ciri is unlikely to appear. Nor is Geralt or Yennefer or Vesemir or any of our favorites.Bratinov said: