Book of the Week: A Matter For Men.

I will regret this; but there have been… rumors… that Book Five of David Gerrold’s War Against The Chtorr alien invasion series may be approaching a place where it could be considered as possibly being in a position where it might be -and this is going to sound strange, I know – well, published.  I don’t believe it, either… but I can’t make myself quite disbelieve.  So, since I apparently enjoy feeling the pain of broken hope, here’s A Matter for Men (The War Against the Chtorr, Book One).  It’ll all end in tears, of course.  Ten thousand years from now, they’ll uncrate David Gerrold’s cyronically frozen head and ask him “WHEN ARE YOU FINISHING THE SERIES?!?” …And there still will be no good answer.

But I’m not bitter!

And so, adieu to The Lost Majority.

12 thoughts on “Book of the Week: A Matter For Men.”

  1. He’s busy dumping on the Sad Puppies this year, so probably not soon.
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    It should be interesting at the Hugo ceremony if some of the SP nominees actually win. I’m afraid he might get more than a bit peevish, and that would truly be sad.

  2. Wow. New hardback is $235, used hardback, only $71. WTF?

    Used mass marked from $0.01

  3. Could be worse. “The last of the booby-trapped suns had novaed.” D’Arc Tangent #1 of a planned 16-issue series (no other issues were ever released). Collaboration with Freff, Lucie Chin, and Melissa Ann Singer

  4. A word of advice for folks who haven’t read the series. If you do decide to dive into it, stop after this one.
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    Two reasons why- One, from the early drafts I saw of book 5 I suspect that unless the plot changed radically from Gerrold’s early version, I’d be better off with the imaginary version of the novel that’s in my head. Book one ends without the pessimism that the latter books have. And two, I’m going to skirt around this a little, but there are a number of plot elements in later books in the series (and a bit in the first as well that isn’t quite as obvious) that at best are rather creepy thought experiments and at worst are things that are going to let Gerrold stand in the same SF corner as Marion Zimmer Bradley. I won’t make direct accusations as authors will argue things because of it makes sense for the story and not because they believe it in their hearts. But it keeps happening in the story. There are enough authors out there who I don’t have to worry about “do they think this or don’t they?” that I can skip this particular one.

    1. It is… a controversial series, no argument. Pretty much the entire population is clinically insane by the end of book three.

      1. Oh, goody. Well, with this and Jeff Weimer’s contribution to the thread, I guess I can take Gerrold back off my list of authors I want to read more of.

  5. Man, I was in high school when I bought this book the first time. A book series so old it is not even available in E-book format. I have given up on any kind of dream of getting book five … I want to believe!

  7. So, perhaps off-topic, and perhaps non-of-my-business, but I like your site.
    1. You just linked to this book when nobody, really, will buy one of the new ones. >$200?!? I assume/hope you get some cut when people buy through your link. Do you get a cut when people buy a used one?
    2. I run an ad blocker. Will you get money if I turn off the blocker, but then never click on one of your ads?

    Delete this if it’s inappropriate. I guess I should just click on of the “Donation” buttons.

    1. 1. Basically, most people who click on Amazon tend to do a variant of “Hey, I’m here, so I might as well look around.” So I get credit for pretty much any purchase that happens via a visit to a site via an Associate link (within a short time limit). Also, the book was available for $.01: I don’t get a piece of that, but it counts towards how many sales I generate (which affects base percentage). I don’t go into it much because I don’t want to game the system, but I think that that’s all common knowledge anyway.
      2. As I understand it, advertisers would prefer it if I don’t talk about ads at all. So I cannot in good conscience talk to you about that.

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