The sequel to Cyteen is available!!!
It’s out!! The sequel to Cyteen is available in hardback!! I want to get this book — I’m really curious to see what happens — but I’m almost concerned. It’s been 23 years since Cyteen was published, the author’s written some good series in a different universe (or, at least for some of these other books, a much different part of this -=same=- universe) and the few “sequels” written two decades after the first book haven’t always held up. They may have been good, but they weren’t quite the same. The author had changed as a person and as a professional, and that was (of course) visible in the books. (I don’t know that I’d want to read something written by a person who hadn’t changed at all in two decades…because that’s a kind of scary person.) But still…there will be change. And this sequel is supposed to pick up right where Cyteen left off.
But even with all the concerns about “will it pick up the same voice”...it’s Cyteen!! I have servers named after the characters in this book, for pity’s sake. I have to read the sequel. (Okay…first, I have to get the spare money to buy the sequel. Ursa’s doing quite well; but the vet bills were Not Small.)
For anyone else who wants to check this out, it may not have hit your local bookstores just yet, since it has a publication date of January 6, 2009 (that’s two weeks ago). The book you’re looking for is “Regenesis” by C J Cherryh. Good old reliable Amazon will have it for $18 and taxes; or you can buy it from Deepdiscount.com for about the same price.
